then the plane flew into the speeding heat-ball from the explosion causing the blackening.
You may wish to consider given SA-11 @ M4.5 vs 777 @ M0.8
Just trying to figure out why the paint is still on the shrapnel-peppered aircraft skin attached to the rearmost cockpit window frame, and the paint is totally burnt off the skin below the forward cockpit window frame. Seems contradictory to me somehow.
I can but assume something like an explosion some 50 feet ahead and to the upper left of the cockpit such that the shrapnel arrives a microsecond before the plane flies though the expanding cloud of burning gases that scorches the nose of the plane but not the sides.