Yes, that is interesting. My guess (only a guess) is that it's consistent with a very steep descent in a nose-up attitude. The tail impacts first, the resulting acceleration force breaks the engine pylon fuse and releases the engine, and what forward momentum there is lets the free engine slide along the ground ahead.
This would also be consistent with the flight crew being killed by the high G-force as the fuselage, rotating down around the stabiliser lateral axis, hit the ground.
But now that I think of, the mechanics is all wrong - my 2nd para. contradicts the first (which assumes the fuselage does not rotate down).
Wait for the FDR readout!
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