I for one, never saw a plane turned into chaff.
If they hit going straight down, or have a high energy explosion above they do.
Independent:
Jean Louis Bietrix:
“Bits. Just bits. It is horrible to think
that something as large as an aircraft can be reduced to pieces no bigger than
a car door.”
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Jean Louis Bietrix , a local mountain guide among the first on the scene, has told The Independent of his horror.
“It is incredible. There is not one bit of
that aircraft that has not be exposed to the open air. The terrain is perilous
- very rocky and very steep, a gradient of up to 80 per cent in places. It is
very difficult to describe what must have happened to those on board. They have
ended up in a very wild and lonely place.”