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Its pretty essential they needed to find and label every piece of evidence on the crash site before parts got trampled or accidentilly moved or wrecked.
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That's what I would guess as well, although I'm not an expert.
All I know is I did it a few times in the field in Wainwright during basic training. Someone would lose the firing pin out of their rifle while doing a weapon tear down in the field. They'd stop the whole platoon, make us put our gas masks on, and crawl us the prone position for what seemed like a couple of hours going over the same area looking for the stupid thing. And of course, someone found the pin in the first 5 minutes of searching and gave it to our Platoon Seargent, but they would just make us crawl around for fun in 30 degree weather with masks on looking for nothing.