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Describe the evidence to be collected and the specialists or crime laboratory units that would be needed to properly analyze the following crime scene to answer the given questions.
 
  On Monday, September 26, 2011, a small airplane believed to be transporting members of a Mexican drug cartel and a shipment of drugs and firearms of unknown type or size recorded a short mayday call at 8:05 a.m. before crashing into a farmhouse in Laredo, Texas. Local police report that homeless individuals frequent the abandoned farmhouse, and there may have been several inside at the time of impact. On impact, the airplane's nearly full gas tank caused a fire that incinerated those within the plane and those within the farmhouse.
 
  The investigators need to deduce the following:
  a. How did the airplane malfunction to cause the crash?
  b. Who was on the airplane and in the farmhouse?
  c. What were the contents of the airplane's cargo?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The idea that scientific knowledge does not progress in a simple linear and cumulative fashion; rather, knowledge progresses in the context of a community, meaning that professional, personal, and cultural interests play important roles was known as
 
  _______________. a. Kuhn's progression of knowledge
  b. the scientific method
  c. methodology
  d. scientific inquiry
  e. none of the above


Jadwiga9

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Answer to Question 1

Answer should include points such as the following:
 All evidence should be collected by the crime-scene unit or trained personnel.
a. All available portions of the airplane should be collected and analyzed by a forensic engineer to acquire information about potential causes of the crash. The mayday signal should be recorded and analyzed by the voiceprint analysis unit to acquire information about potential causes of the crash. Samples of gasoline should be collected and analyzed by the physical science unit to to acquire information about potential causes of the crash.
b. Any discovered remains should be collected and analyzed by a forensic odontologist to acquire information about the victims. Tissue from discovered remains should be collected and analyzed by the biology unit for blood type or DNA to acquire information about the victims.
c. All available portions of the cargo materials should be collected. Potential drug evidence should be analyzed by the physical science unit, and potential firearms evidence should be analyzed by the firearms unit to acquire information about the contents of the airplane's cargo.

Answer to Question 2

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