While not jumping to any conclusions on the cause of this accident, 747Focal’s post is what I considered a high probability cause. It has been my experience that in three crewmember aircraft where the TO Thrust setting is manually computed by the FE, rarely is there a procedural or operational crosscheck of the values presented. Now in this situation (relatively short runway/heavy payload), EPR should have been near/at MAX allowable.
Time will tell all.