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Old 06-15-09, 03:53 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by CastleBravo View Post
It looks as if he hit the water barrier, which is what it is designed for. Its certainly a tragedy and I cannot understand what the voice-over is saying, but from the tarp used to place him in the helicopter, for better or worse he died on impact.
Water barrier+180 mph= useless. Dead on impact, certaily. There was less then a milli-second of impact absorption by the water barrier. He took the full brunt of it.
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