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'Bent' no, they'd have broken off if at all, and there's no sign of that on that sonar. Plus the horizontal stabilisers on the tail look swept too.

It's much much more likely it's a swept wing jet like the Cougar, and given that they're practically the same size...




What you’re saying is possible but understand that things will shift and settle in the 90 years since she went down. Most plane wrecks I’ve seen photos of show mangled fuselages, snapped off wings, tail sections, etc.


That's kind of my point, the sonar imagery looks exactly like an utterly intact swept wing jet, rather than a straight wing electra that hit the water at speed.

I'm much more inclined to think that what the sonar imagery shows is something like the result of :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8lYbp3J1c

'Gently' settling on the sea bottom.




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