I believe what we are looking at with regards the straight deep gouge is the nose gear, the marks running symmetrical to the main gear have to be the gear doors, with respect to your observation XPMorten, the marks change to wards the crash site at the point where the straight line gouge mark reduces, indicating either the nose is lifted or the ground drops. So these clearly cannot be tire marks left by a vehicle, they also appear to start at the point that the straight line commences. Considering how low the MGD run to the ground any digging in of the nose gear would surely present them to the ground as well, thus when the nose gear comes away the MGD marks recede.
However after having now read STRONGRESOLVES post directly below and considering that there appears to be what looks like the reverser end of a engine to the north of the tracks, i think it would do to wait for the report.
Last edited by bia botal; 27th Aug 2008 at 15:07.