Plenty of time and a complex chain of custody to tamper with the files.
I don’t think these muzzies have the knowledge to retrieve the data if damaged nor interpret it. Also, I think the data is finer but they may not want to release it because they already know what happened and do not want the truth to come out.
Windshield failure . . .
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In fact, cracked or shattered cockpit windshield occurrences, during commercial aircraft flights at normal cruise altitudes, ranging 20-38 thousand feet, happen more often than one might think. Every week or two there is a cracked or shattered cockpit windshield incident happening on one of the nearly 90 thousands flights airborne each day (or nearly 33 million flights annually) around the world.
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More info:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140507001219-90103575-cracked-aircraft-windshields-are-not-rare
They can’t just clip a contact device on each chip and suck out the data?
Translation - the USB connector broke off