what seems to be the main cargo of the plane - illegally trafficked (by the airline itself) caiman skins:<p><a href="https://operationthonapa.com/an-international-smuggling-ring-driven-by-gross-80s-fashion-55ac5d3136e0#.y81syko2o" rel="nofollow">https://operationthonapa.com/an-international-smuggling-ring...</a><p>"Pieces of snake/alligator/crocodile skins are scattered all over the mountain. In picking up a plane part for a closer look, often there would be crocodile hide on or near the part. They are in such abundance that we actually became quite sick of them as we combed the field for the black box.<p>...<p>While we don’t think this is the sole reason for the bungling of the investigation immediately following the crash (10 months before an expedition was mounted!), these illegal animal skins are part of a larger pattern of smuggling illegal goods on Eastern Airlines commercial flights. Someone in the organization was making money on these sketchy practices. If some of this money found its way to the right pockets, it would been easy to delay the appropriate investigational response until many feet of snow/ice covered the crash site."
For those interested, Bill Hammack (Engineer Guy) pulled apart a 1970s-era flight recorder in an old video.[1] The one in video, though, gets etched to a roll of tin rather than recorded to a magnetic tape.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlY5W7be5jU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlY5W7be5jU</a>
What's on the last picture is mostly casing. They seem to have found a magnetic roll that hopefully contains data, but there's some risk they found nothing
If I entered the coordinates correctly, this is the location on Google Maps:
16°40'08.5"S 67°46'26.8"W<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/cYD3aXH5PuN2" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/cYD3aXH5PuN2</a>
Will Wikipedia ever get responsive?<p>[EDIT:] In other words, Wikipedia seems to be the last vestige of the dumb old "separate web for mobile" mindset of ideas like WML. Media queries are just better, and would prevent this inane "that link sucks for half of us; here's one that sucks for the other half" crap.