Yes, and you have to admit, it is impressive they found it so soon into the new search. Still, with the millions spent on finding this plane, you really do have to appreciate the immense complexity of this effort. To be honest I was skeptical they would ever find it, so this is quite a major discovery. With criminal proceedings opened into the case just recently, here's to hoping that this will finally give families the answers they real answers about what happened and who's at fault.
And I probably shouldn't read into this too much, but the condition of the wreckage could be an interesting clue. The fact that you have at least a large fuselage section intact, and engines apparently nearby, from a plane that plummeted 40,000 feet through the air and then sank another 10,000 ft in water, could certainly be saying something about the manner in which it crashed. Certainly a plane hitting water head-on at full speed wouldn't have left that kind of wreckage...
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