gumboot
lorcutus.tolere
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Physical evidence is one of the easiest things to fake. I find the notion that these feeble items survived and were used for evidence to be ambiguous. I find it hard to believe that the tail incinerated while a bandana and paper survived unscathed.
In air crashes it is fairly common for small light weight items to survive the crash when heavy items do not. It is very common for magazines, etc. from air crashes to be found far away from the impact site, with very little damage.
I was under the impression that the tail was made of titanium and the ground was soft. I have seen other tails survive crashes that seem WAY more believable.
Aircraft are made of aluminium, not titanium.
I am not aware of another air crash in which a large airliner flew perpendicular into the ground at high speed, making comparison with another crash very difficult.
Most other accidents either occur on take off or landing, at low speed, with a very shallow impact angle, or involve the aircraft breaking up at high altitude.
I believe an explosion/detonation is what caused the holes in the inner rings. I have speculated on the exact device used but I remain open minded.
There's only one punch-out hole, and it's in the C-ring wall.
-Andrew