After plane or space craft crashes, what happens to the bodies? Do they implode because of the pressure? In plane crashes, clothes and pieces of the aircraft are found, but no bodies.
After the challenger explosion there weren’t any bodies either.
What happens to them?
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I am under the impression of “no bodies”, because:
A. They never go into detail about bodies (yes it’s morbid, but it’s also an unanswered question….hence why I’m here) on the news/documentaries, only about the vehicle and crash site information.
B. I do not understand force and the fragility of the human body on that scale, —which is funny because I have been in a life altering car accident so I do have *some* understanding of how damaging very high speeds in heavy machinery can be. You’re crushed like bugs, basically. Just needed some eli5 to confirm it with more dangerous transport options.
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In many cases they are able to recover bodies, or at least remains. It depends on the forces involved in the accident and where they happen. The challenger is an extreme example. It was a massive explosion with extreme fuel loads in a craft traveling thousands of miles an hour and at a very high altitude. An explosion of that scale would pretty much reduce the bodies to unrecognizable pieces that would’ve then been scattered across miles because of how high they were.
Most of the time they are able to recover the bodies from plane crashes. The state the bodies are in depends on the details of the crash. The times they aren’t recovered is usually because they crashed in the middle of the ocean and they would’ve quickly drifted apart and biodegrades or been eaten by the time they would’ve been located.
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