Major components identification update
Major components which i have NOT found yet on pictures ... but hope someone else has (updates marked with ***):
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*** maybe 2 without position),
e. 2 of the 2 engines *** both engines identified in pictures just now,
f. APU itself,
g. the majority of passenger seats *** by now 1 clear image from a Russian video of a triple-seat which separated from the plane at altitude.
h. *** nose landinggear itself – but expect to find that inside the NLG box which is clearly visible,
i. *** cargo doors and associated panels,
j. *** more (top) fuselage panels,
It might be possible that we already 'see' the complete fuselage. But the available photos are not good enough. You need to be able to measure the various 'sections'. *** we are getting better pictures.
Please note: At this stage a large number of items and components have already been moved from their original place and position. *** A number of items have already been removed from the site by now. Most of it assembled passenger baggage it seems.
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.