[d-informed-1]

my problem is that the voice recorder was "ejected" from its housing. i thought those things were designed to take tremendous abuse.

[konaice]

my problem is that the voice recorder was "ejected" from its housing. i thought those things were designed to take tremendous abuse.

All pictures from the crash site only show the tail. That's the biggest piece left. Planes that hit mountains at full speed disintegrate.

[rabidralph]

Maybe Boeing accidentally installed a Jack-in-a-black-box.

[Doomonyou]

i thought those things were designed to take tremendous abuse.

Slamming into a mountain side at over 300 MPH is defined as "Super Duper tremendous abuse", which is more severe, so sometimes they have problems.