Fully aware that it is too early for speculation, and with due respect to the tragedy of the event, a few points raised here have caught my attention.
As an MD-80 pilot myself, I have noticed that some guys tend to rotate the aircraft too quickly, establishing the 18-ish degree ANU a little too rapidly for their own good. Add to that the length of the airplane and the large moments involved during engine loss, and you might have a disastrous combination if the engine fails at TO, causing wing-to-wing amplitudes that take some sorting out. I have seen it on the simulator, more than once. Seeing how someone wrote that the airplane hit the ground with the wing (if that came from a reliable source)...
Not trying to assign blame based on nothing, just trying to share what I have seen before.
****ty fracking day.
