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Old 26th Feb 2009, 13:05
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Traces of debris

A rough look at the traces of debris behind the aircraft as well as the explanations of passengers reveal that the plane hit the ground with close-to-zero horizontal speed, which might have prevented a fire.

Might there be a possibility that the captain, once he was absolutely sure that he would crash, has decided to deliberately pull up excessively to create stall, reduced the airspeed and hit the ground without dragging on the ground so that there would be a minimum level of horizontal friction (Which, in turn, prevented rupture of fuel tanks) but resulted in a heavy (Heaviest actually) impact to occur at the nose? (Cockpit)

Such a heavy impact that although no visible damage is seen from the outside, all the stuff under the cockpit to be pushed down into the cockpit, killing all the pilots, instead of 120+ passengers to burn in fire?

Very recently I have talked to a professional pilot who knows the captain very well, and he said that such a probability is very, very high.

Any comments from pros?
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