Investigators may never recover enough wreckage to know why the Hercules crashed, killing 38Chilean air force chief says cause of Antarctic plane crash may never be knownThe commander-in-chief of the Chilean air force has said that the struggle to recover the remains of a Hercules that crashed en route to the Antarctic two weeks ago could make it difficult to ever determine what happened to the plane. The commander-in-chief of the Chilean air force, Arturo Merino Nuñez, said that because more debris had not yet been found, it was possible they would never know what happened to the plane. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chilean air force image showing the search area for the crashed Hercules. If larger parts of the plane debris were found, he said, “it would allow us to disregard the less probable hypotheses and zone in on what really caused the accident”. That is also very distressing for us because we have to continue operating the plane, Antarctic campaigns have to continue.”

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2019 03:00 UTC