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It wasnt engine failure. The official investigation found that condensation on one of the aircrafts sensors was causing it to feed incorect information to the flight control computer. When the pilot commanded a 10-15 degree nose up climb the computer ordered a 35 degree AoA, to compound the problem the aircraft was also some 20-30knts below the correct take off speed; again caused by the computer sending faulty information to the airspeed indicator. Combine the slow speed with high AoA and you get a stall. Once the aircraft started to pitch over to the left, clipping the ground, there was no way to save the airframe.

Its a known issue, so a laspe in aircraft maintanence probably lead to the crash.