An extensive search for wreckage got under way, but the aircraft's disappearance remained a mystery.
The National Transportation Safety Board concluded, after an extensive examination of wreckage, that a stray spark of undetermined origin set off a flammable mixture of gases in the nearly empty center fuel tank of the T.W.A. plane, a Boeing 747.
By the time they were gone Wednesday night, the wreckage was extensive, in terms of lives lost, neighborhoods crushed.
Authorities say the plane probably crashed in the Indian Ocean, but officials have not found the main wreckage despite an extensive underwater search of a vast area.
Rescuers located the wreckage on Sunday after an extensive search.
The wreckage from Hurricane Sandy is extensive.
It is believed that the Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, but an extensive search hasn't turned up any wreckage – a result that's only furthered the various conspiracy theories put forward by Infowars subscribers and mainstream media outlets alike. .
Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer specializing in ocean currents who did extensive computer simulations last year of where Flight 370 wreckage might float, said that it was possible that pieces might now be reaching Réunion, more than 3,000 miles from the plane's last known location.
Once they were done examining the wreckage in Katmandu, which was not as extensive as it could have been, they headed back toward the epicenter of the aftershock.
Inspector Dave Preston of Queensland police said it had been a difficult operation to get the man out of the mangled wreckage: "The fire and rescue had to do extensive work in relation to extracting and opening the vehicle up sufficiently to remove him.
An extensive search operation was initiated to locate and salvage the wreckage of XH668 to determine the cause of the crash.
