Oh well, apparently the crisis committee has already watched the CCTV tape and investigations are being based on the hypothesis that whatever happened to the engine did in fact damage control surfaces of the aircraft.
Someone mentioned something about the certification of the JT8D not requiring fan containment, i would like to know details about that, and how it has been adapted to the new certification criteria. Have no tests been conducted at all... bird or hail ingestion?
EDIT: mentioning how useless this post is, makes it even more useless. There are a couple people here trying to share useful information so that we all learn something from this. So, considering that people have already stopped repeating what they hear on the news, lets try not to state how useless their comments were over and over again.