noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cut
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Gunns had to be cut from the wreckage .
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He had to be cut from the wreckage of his Ford Focus, which somersaulted when it seemed to catch a siding.
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Mark Windram from Eastfield in Northampton had to be cut from the wreckage by the fire brigade.
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The police have confirmed 40 walking wounded, and 31 people hospitalised who had been cut from the wreckage .
find
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Police took two hours to find the wreckage and the bodies of the couple.
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She searched the area for three days and verified all my descriptions but found no wreckage of the transport and gave up.
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People saw where it fell, but it took rescuers 10 days to find the wreckage .
recover
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Throughout that summer more vital pieces of the rear fuselage were recovered along the downwind wreckage trail.
see
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There was nothing to see , only wreckage .
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But the damaged houses were pathetic to see , and wreckage was still being pulled from alleyways and lanes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Wreckage from the plane was scattered over a large area.
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Crews have worked all week clearing away the wreckage .
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Investigators are looking through pieces of the wreckage for any clues about the crash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he drifts away with the wreckage .
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He had to be cut from the wreckage of his Ford Focus, which somersaulted when it seemed to catch a siding.
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He made two journeys down the path to the wreckage of the car.
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He picked his way around the smoking wreckage of the Chelonian tanks.
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Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.
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Reacher and the gunner disappeared through the thicket of trees between us and the wreckage .
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Traffic was diverted on to the A166 as emergency services cleared the wreckage between Dunnington and Kexby, near York.
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You will then have your crew get out and inspect the wreckage firsthand.