Quote Originally Posted by Splashone View Post
The evidence in a forested area comes long after the crash when the trees in the immediate area die from the fuel/oil spill (if there was any left in the plane).

Any airplane is miniscule when compared to the nearly 40 million square miles of possible crash sites with this incident.
I'd have to disagree with your first point, at least partially, in that there are indeed indications of a light plane crash in a heavily forested area immediately after the incident not including a fire. At least from the aerial photos we were shown of what to look for. The evidence is extremely difficult to detect from the air and a lot of initial air searches come up empty handed because of that. Better evidence may very well come later but once the initial air search has been called after a week or two a later search almost never happens.

No quibbles with the last one though.

Bob