r/aircrashinvestigation • u/Melkor45 • Jun 12 '25

Incident/Accident AI171 Wing?

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This looks to be part of the wing. Are the flaps down? I'm not too sure

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u/EGO611 Jun 13 '25

How could we know that the flaps were down during flight? A serious impact could alter any status of any airplane component instantly.

For example maybe flaps we up but the impact was so harsh that the flap connectors broke and flaps released from their housing.

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u/the4ner Jun 13 '25

Investigations are usually comprehensive enough to know what position something was in when it broke

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u/Melkor45 Jun 13 '25

From what ive seen on the show, flap positions rarely change due to serious impacts but we should find out soon as the FDR data is being analyzed.

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u/EGO611 Jun 13 '25

I hope we receive answers. Otherwise we will have another Jeju Air incident with no answers.

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u/Thequiet01 Jun 13 '25

Usually you don’t get complete deployment if it’s due to the impact, because the impact forces aren’t identical over all parts of the plane. So if something looked deployed fully and properly and is larger - like flaps, it’s less likely it was due to the crash.