Collocations for wreckage - noun

mangled, tangled, twisted | blazing, burning, smoking | aircraft

bit, piece
Pieces of wreckage have been found up to three miles away.

scatter, spread
The crash left wreckage spread over a wide area.

be strewn with
The runway is still strewn with wreckage.

sight
Wreckage has been sighted fifteen miles north of the island.

survey
He surveyed the wreckage of his expensive equipment.

search, sift through
Police are searching the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident.

examine | clear
The wreckage has now been cleared from the motorway.

be buried in, be trapped in
Several people are still trapped in the wreckage.

crawl from | cut sb (free) from, free sb from, pull sb from
He had to be cut from the wreckage by firemen.

find sth among
The remains of an explosive device were found among the wreckage.

recover sth from, rescue/save sb/sth from, salvage sth from
Another body has been recovered from the wreckage. | (figurative) Could nothing be rescued from the wreckage of her dreams?

be strewn
Wreckage was strewn over a wide area.

amidst/among/amongst the ~
Bodies lay among the tangled wreckage.

in the ~
Her body was discovered in the wreckage.

~ from
A search is going on for wreckage from the blazing aircraft.