I seem to recall reading a UK broadsheet "account" subsequent to the accident some time ago - perhaps Spring 2001 - which claimed that a "spacer" was missing from the port undercarriage assembly, causing the aircraft to progressively veer left, thereby impacting the DC-10 debris, etc, etc...
Anyone know for sure whether this was fact or fiction? The observations about overweight and wind mentioned above were also included in that account so far as I remember.