Phalconfixer and p51guy, I am just a long lapsed ppl and so hesitate to add anything to what is a very expert discussion. However this issue has been troubling me for a very long time and now that you two have revisited it I feel compelled to add my innocent observation. I was an engineer in another discipline and have learned that coincidences are rarely just that. I seem to remember that this aircraft had its nose strut replaced with a freshly serviced and pressurised one in Palma very shortly before the accident. Combined with the observation, by the refueller who topped up the tanks after the return of the aircraft from the first dispatch, that the strobes were flashing (and that he had never seen that before while fuelling) it seems possible that the weight-on-wheels issue was significant.
Nomex duly donned in anticipation!