These sources of information should be available in accident investigations. To perform the analysis will require highly qualified personnel. Baker et al. These experts shall be involved immediately after the accident. Most of the useful damage indicators will otherwise be lost.
Many companies are reluctant to publish accident reports.
Take many photographs, both of the area view and the specific damages. Use a professional photographer and make systematic records of locations and directions of all the photos taken. Organise a fragment map, showing the original position of the fragments and where they landed. Fragments can be a good indicator of where the explosion occurred and of the magnitude of the explosion. Figure 14.3 shows the trajectories of four parts of motor casings from an actual case.