Splashback Effect News Today

But the only good side of this is that it happened in less than a second. certainly not ability to recognize what was actually happening to them on board. >> david, youre saying not only, so the plane, as it impacts the ground, breaks apart. but also, those pieces that, as it moves forward, the pieces that have broken off then bounce back and hit the aircraft? >> right. its kind of a splashback effect if you can imagine something hitting solid. it kicks back from that and makes a reverse push ba...

Apart. but also those pieces that as it moves forward, the pieces that have broken off then bounce back and hit the aircraft? >> right. its kind of a splashback effect if you can imagine something hitting solid. it kicking back from that. almost makes a reverse push backwards. most of the investigations ive done in this type of terrain, most of the debris field is backwards from the direction it was going in the first place. so those pieces that hit the ground come back at the rest of the remain...