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wreckage

noun as in remains

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noun as in ruins

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One passenger was ejected and landed 10 feet away from the chopper, and another was pinned beneath the wreckage, authorities said.

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That same month he posted photos of the wreckage a skydiving plane he was on saying the plane's engine had failed after take off.

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There are "no signs of life" under the wreckage of a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people are still missing, rescuers have said.

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From the Piccins’ property in wine country to foothills below the Sierra Nevada to canyons overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the wreckage stubbornly resists recovery.

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The bodies of the two children, aged four and six, and their parents were later recovered from the wreckage.

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