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"Where's the debris?" Here. Here are some of the planes debris. 🙄 Most of it either disintegrated into small fragments or is buried deep in the soft, rain-soaked soil. But some of it was thrown out by the explosion and the impact, glanced off the asphalt where part of the jet hit the road, and landed in the mobile home park next door. Residents there are finding pieces of the plane all over the neighborhood. In the video he's saying, in Spanish, "Look, that's a part of a plane... pieces everywhere." Look at what he's finding: small pieces of riveted aluminum skin and structure, some still wearing the yellow-green primer used inside airframes, mixed in with sand and gravel thrown out of the crater. No wings, no tail, no big sections. Just fragments. That's exactly what physics predicts. The jet hit at about 700 mph at a steep 68 degrees, so most of the airplane drove straight into the ground. But it was still moving sideways at roughly 260 mph when it hit, the fuel went up in a fireball, and the impact blasted soil out of the crater. All of that flings the lightest fragments outward, and thin aluminum skin carries a long way. This is also the difference between a ground impact and a mid-air breakup or missile strike. Hit something in the air and wreckage, including big pieces like the tail and wings, rains down along a trail that can stretch for miles. Here you have a crater with small fragments sprayed around it, and a transponder that kept reporting all the way to the ground. One impact, one spot. The plane didn't vanish. Most of it is in the ground, and the rest is in people's yards.