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That is not true. It was not missing. Here's a photo showing it was clearly there: https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.files.wordpress.com/2018/...

I do think that it had already stopped at least one, maybe multiple crashes since it has been last replaced.

The discussion here though is about visibility, and the attenuator would have been quite obvious there.

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There are a dozen news articles that say it was missing, and even your picture looks like it's just the mount point, not the crash arresting system itself.

I'm not sure I believe the claims of dozens of news articles that say it was missing, but it doesn't really matter. Here's a link to the ntsb report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

Page 2 (which is actually the 22nd page of the pdf) shows an image of the pre-crash state of the attenuator. It is present, but non-operational due to a previous crash. While that crash affected it's usefulness, it's visibility is only marginally reduced.

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