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This indicates that he was hit in the explosion that occurred mid-flight before the crash. There is some concern that the explosive that caused the crash could have been nitroglycerin, what the pilot was carrying during the flight for his heart condition, but this can be disproved by looking at the percentages of each element in the two substances. The percent composition of dynamite is 37.01% carbon, 2.22% hydrogen, 18.5% nitrogen, and 42.27% oxygen. These numbers perfectly match the percentages found in the section of the plane exposed to the blast, which tells us that the explosive was, indeed, caused by dynamite, and not