I knew one of the passengers on this flight, David Leslie. He was a really decent bloke, one of the nicest motorsport professionals you could meet.
This is clearly a terrible tragedy with life changing consequences for the families of all those who succumbed. The outpouring of tributes over the last few days is an indicator for how badly these guys will be missed.
I'm new to the forum and have read this thread from the beginning. As I'm not an expert, I can't hope to speculate what happened, but there are some reasonable possible causes here, including the baggage flap issue and uncontained engine failure. Hopefully the investigators will be able to get to the bottom of what happened help give some sense of closure to the families.
Just to clear up something. Does anyone know if the plane was owned by Richard Lloyd or chartered by him for this flight ? If the latter, who owned the plane ?