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by sib301 873 days ago
What you’re saying is possible but understand that things will shift and settle in the 90 years since she went down. Most plane wrecks I’ve seen photos of show mangled fuselages, snapped off wings, tail sections, etc.
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That's kind of my point, the sonar imagery looks exactly like an utterly intact swept wing jet, rather than a straight wing electra that hit the water at speed.

I'm much more inclined to think that what the sonar imagery shows is something like the result of :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8lYbp3J1c

'Gently' settling on the sea bottom.