Reading what the pilot said is pretty harrowing. We know a lot from what the pilot already said over the radio (and maybe that's the best info we'll get, are there any remains left?)
I wonder if running the data cable through the foam would cause problems like letting fire/fuel/water through the helmet and disolve/melt the plastics or if you whip a cable hard enough it can cut right through things like a weed wacker.
or just ultra-thin wires connecting the memory to the outside. the ultra-thin wire will just snap and it's too light to cause damage by whipping around
the big problem is kinetic impact, fire/fuel/water would be easy to solve, for example fire requires oxygen which will have difficulties getting inside through a tiny hole, and I'm sure there is some metal alloy which doesn't melt in typical plane fuel fire temperatures
If there is, seems they're deep under the ground as it nosedove straight into the ground and essentially disappeared, the crater showed almost no debris at all. People been guessing on reddit that everything just got "instantly pulverized" which I doubt somewhat, the shape of the frame is perfect for it shooting into the ground so I'm guessing they'll spend some weeks digging and eventually find the wreck.
Edit: Since I can't respond to my children:
> This kind of impact in fact has tendency to turn aircraft into powder
How often? A similar crash that comes to mind is https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/06/05/dc-... where they did recover actual bodies, even if the impact was near-vertical and seemingly faster than this case.
What specific cases are you thinking about where everything "instantly pulverized"?
The vertical speed of the plane alone at last reported speed indication exceeds the speed of neuron transmission along myelated nerve tissue. This impact event is mechanically impossible to feel.
The crater shows the road was destroyed. Aircraft skins are much thinner and less robust than road coverings.
Well, just looking at the article, I see trees, which tend to slow things down and can cause a plane to break up.
You can see the macroscopic deformation fail to transit the body of the impacting object with enough speed to make gross deformation happen as it collides. The front of the rocket body is literally turning to a vapor at the impact site, and the tail assembly is 100% fine.