Rescuers picked up debris and luggage for miles along the flight path leading to the crash site.
Since I'm no pilot, I figured he was jettisonning the load.
What other reason would there be for parts and luggage a couple miles away from where it went down?
Cargo doors stuck open?
Thanks, you sure are up on things.....:)
When a plane is out of control, it is possible to overstress the airframe sufficiently to cause it break apart. The falling pieces encounter differrent amounts of wind resistance so their foward velocities slow at different rates, and they land in different places. I don't know that this happened to JFK,Jr.'s plane but if the luggage wasn't found in the plane, then it's pretty sure that it did.
ML/NJ