Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
If fuel vapour had built up in the engine area or wing and the engine fire ignited this vapour causing a small explosion couldn't that damage the aircraft sufficiently that any recovery was impossible?
Everyone seems to be suggesting that the accident was recoverable. Not possible to determine from the footage. As the aircraft crashed we have to assume it wasn't?
If you look at the leading edge both sides of the missing #1 engine, the leading edge looks slightly deformed, as if the d-box was blown open by the explosion. Images aren't clear enough for a certain diagnose though.