Major components identification
Major components which i have not found yet on pictures ... but hope someone else has:
a. top and aft section of the vertical tail structure,
b. rudder,
c. horizontal stabilizer (looks like it came clear off - which might suggest a high speed failure),
d. 4 of 8 passenger doors (it is easy to identify 3 in their proper position, 1 without position),
e. 1 of the 2 engines,
It might be possible that we can already see the complete fuselage. But the photos are not good enough. You need to be able to measure the various 'sections'.
Please note: At this stage a large number of items and components have already been moved from their original place and position. For example the cockpit section has been turned, collections made of airco ducts, collections of baggage, one of the doors that sat stuck in the ground appears to have been taken out and laid flat ...
An upset (suggested by preliminary and rough FR24 data, cause(s) unknown), followed by loss of control (causes unknown), high speed steep descent, overspeed failure of part of the tail and horizontal stabilizer, wing-fuselage inverting, going into a kind of flat rotation, losing both engines and APU during that rotation, and hitting the ground in that attitude ... could be one of the possible scenario's - based on the pictures that are available till now.
Only after rejecting such options, and only with clear possible evidence (like we had early on with MH17), would it be useful to spend time on more exotic (but not impossible) scenario's like bombs and missiles.
Last edited by A0283; 2nd Nov 2015 at 20:59.