The other telling thing about this pic is the HORIZONTAL reflection of the ground in the spinner ! As mentioned previously, the reflections in the picture of the aircraft supposedly in a dive do not match up.
They do actually, the spinner is dark because its reflecting a dark surface, more commonly known as the ground.
If you think the image has been rotated 90 degrees the sky on your planet must be a very peculiar color. At what point in the accident sequence was the aircraft straight and level at the same plane as the photographer to get a perfect side on shot?, and where was the photgrapher standing in relation to the aircraft at the time to get this perfect side on straight and level shot? You know, angles, distances etc etc. In your own time.
Funny that none of the photoshop keyboard warriors has come up with a plausible explanation as to why a photographer with a world wide syndicated image of such a widely covered accident would risk his career in manipulating such an image. The only way a photographer or agency would 'manipulate' such an image is close cropping, you don't need to see blank sky, the close vertical crop works for this image and emphasises the 'story' being told by the image. i.e. the aeroplane is pointing at the ground ...