Satellite imagery indicates that the fuselage was largely intact when Prigozhin plane crashed

The plane crash site is shown in this satellite image.

The fuselage of the plane believed to be carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was largely intact when the aircraft crashed into the ground on Wednesday, according to new imagery shared exclusively with CNN.

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image taken by Umbra Lab, Inc., showed that crash site is in the shape of an oblong oval – containing mostly the fuselage -- and is confined to a specific area. 

That conclusion is supported by video geolocated and authenticated by CNN that shows the plane's fuselage and engines, with a wing apparently missing, falling out of the sky. 

Although the majority of the debris appears at the fuselage-shaped site at the edge of a forest clearing, smaller chunks of the plane did fall elsewhere. Just over a mile – or nearly two kilometers -- southeast of the main debris site, CNN geolocated images and video that showed part of the plane's tail sitting in a clearing, near a row of homes. 

 SAR imagery is unlike normal satellite imagery. It is created by transmitting radar beams that are able to pass through clouds. The beams bounce off objects on the ground and echo back to the satellite; what they bounce off of is then mapped out by the satellite and the SAR image is created

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