"BEagle, yep, with you there, although for me, percentage wise it wasn't much (still illegal though) & the bigger bollox was the missing spacer, which I tend to favour for the tyre failure over the "home-made" DC10 part, & shutting down an engine from P3 position without much , if any, in the way of consultation with the Commander."
Your point of view is not supported by the inquiry.
the aircraft weight at which the takeoff was commenced was 185,880 kg, for a MTOW of 185,070 kg. The investigation confirmed these figures and showed that this excess weight had no significant effect on the takeoff and acceleration distances
Overall, the balance of forces at the centre of the bogie would result in self-aligning moment and two loads whose resultant is increased drag, that is to say a tendency to make the aircraft yaw to the left. The level of this drag would be at most around 1000 daN, very low in relation to the thrust of the engines. The influence of possible sideslip on the trajectory is thus very low or negligible.
At 14 h 43 min 24.8 s, the FE said, “shut down engine 2”. In the same second, the Captain called for the engine fire procedure.