in any event there could be signature signs of what happened to it. here's another scenario. what if the plane is coming in under some kind of control and they are trying to safely land it in the water? in that case the flaperon will be like, this winding out wing space as it comes in at 150 miles an hour. fast enough the water would rip in to this thing and again cause signature damage as it tore it off the plane and there was this compression damage to it. in any event, all of these are small clues to what may have happened to a plane that comes down this way. but remember, this is seven feet, the entire wing is close to 200 feet and when the twa plane went down off of long island they collected lots and lots of pieces, thousands of them an they analyzed all of them and to this day there are