“massive lightning strike” blew all lights, radios and EFIS out and the crew was trying to come back to land in total darkness, no radio or Nav and IMC?
blame fuel or fuel system contamination (ice).
bad fuel quality in Kabul, Afghanistan in recent years, which have not led to the crash.
Not to speculate at all but out of Douala the groound crews there would always try to sneak things on to the plane.
Helldog - Are you thinking Valuejet here?
contaminated fuel (airliner), on takeoff roll, just breaking ground after Vr, both engines quit. runway remaining was adequate for a quick landing. It could happen,
but I don't think that is the case here.
Well, that's a relief. Difficult to investigate to make sure, was it?
bomb in the cockpit, killing the pilots could account for a lack of further radio calls
O2 generators catching fire?
Yes, remarkable similarities to the Abidjan crash, but still probably unrelated.
It's beggining to look like the Helios tragedy regarding loss of comm
no apparent good reason to make a good plane crash other than wx...
Well, I've got plenty more....snake in flight deck, tail fell off, engine fell off, suicide pact, chief hostie went doolally and shot pilots, take your pick, they're all equally likely until someone comes up with one single fact apart from the fact that the aircraft was lost fairly early in the flight.
It's disrespectful, very harmful (think of all those salivating journalists reading it as quoting "industry sources"), and this thread should close, or be confined to people who actually know how to differentiate fact from fiction.