M2dude.
A very concise and a correct recap of the facts so far .
just a couple of corrections ( based on published documents I have seen )
2.An ommited spacer on the front L/H bogie had resulted in massive distortion in the geometry of the front wheels on this U/C
I have not seen the words " massive distrortion " anywhere so far.
3.Eye witnesses (including 2 French airport firefighters, the closest of all to the A/C) categorilcaly stated that they saw smoke and flames eminating from the L/H U/C long before 'the titanium strip'
It is actually 3 firefighters ( evidence presented to the tribunal ) and they state smoke and fire started between exits S5 and S6 , so about 500-700 m before the position in the BEA report.( but the FDR transcript does not show/record any abnormality at that time )
When the A/C was only running on 3 full thrust producing engines
It was only 2 a full thrust , the 3rd one had irregular thrust , so they were in fact at 2,5 engines, an irrecoverable situation at that speed.