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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
They did not seem to think the physics through if they wanted to recover anything. Maybe it was a deliberate attempt to placate the Chinese with that much weight hitting the ocean at a high rate of speed.
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I speculate that the intent all along was to bring down the gondola in shallow ocean water so it could be easily retrieved and examined with a minimum of damage. Dropping it on land would damage it much more.