OK PK, just reading some of your posts it sounded as though you had been called as a witness - glad you weren't.
I still don't think the photo tells us anything definite about the flap setting before the crash, by the way. If you really belted a flap from 30 or 40 all the way up to 15 by brute force, then something has to give. Something has given - as witness the fairing being out of position.
Only when the fat lady in the Flt Rec has sung, will we know.
FC.