We know there has been a fire, not only on the ground but also in the air. We can see smoke marking on fuselage sections where the ground has no evidence of fire so that indicates inflight fire at some point (
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9167703). Sections of fuselage like the one discussed before on the port side, just behind the wing, that have been ripped of the trusses like the section with the wing light and the hole with “flap”, probably made on landing by a tube of the seating frame and a sharp edged holes in the sooted grey area (
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9167734). That particular section shows that there seems to have been a force pushing the panelling out: a window that has been pushed outwards from the fuselage and also fire: soot markings from the emergency escape slide. Below that, in the area of the hold (painted grey) there is also evidence of fire seemingly inside the hold.
There is another section of ripped off fuselage (
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9167649), I think from the opposite (starboard) side, showing the same kind of soot and burn markings. The Aluminium skin has been burned through in places but again not where the trusses and ribs etc. were fitted. I understand that this is roughly the area where the central fwd/aft fuel tanks are. See also (
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9171924) All these sections, including the empennage, have been found in the same two debris areas. It would be interesting to know where the sections are that have fallen down earlier in the disaster process. (satellite image?)
I have been looking at this a number of times now and it puzzles me still. I personally am not buying the “outside force” scenario, that to me is just scaremongering/propaganda until they declare to have found evidence of it.
