Eli5: Why aren’t we able to recover bodies after large travel craft accidents?

Question

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.

Nonetheless, I have learned a great deal from you all, thank you💙

Eta3: I am learning now some of my framing doesn’t make sense, but y’all explained to me what and why. And everyone is so nice, I’m so thankful🥹

In: Physics

Answer 1

>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.

Oh, there are bodies. It’s just that the news media don’t want to be posting pictures of dismembered passenger body parts all over people’s television screens, especially during the dinner hour, and even moreso because some parent might find out about the crash by seeing the top third of daughter’s corpse lying in the wreckage with her intestines spilling out and blood everywhere.

Trust me. Unless you get there after the sharks, or the crabs, or the vultures, or whatever scavengers happen to be in the area, bodies or body parts will be found.