[Enigma]

Emergency services reported pulling around 27 people alive out of the crash site. Some of them in critical conditions, meaning a number of them won't make it.

The plane carried a total of 175 people, 9 of them crewmen. Meaning that 148 of them are to be already taken as victims.


The plane, a MD82, should've departed almost 75 minutes earlier, but the pilot reported problems in one of the engines (I don't know which one at the moment) which could not deliver 100% power, so the plane was retired from the runway and the engine revised...in one hour.

On take off, as it's been said by people who saw the crash 1st hand, the port engine bursted into flames very near of, or just past, V1 point (no-return point, the plane must go aloft once that point is past no matter what). The plane took off but it seems the right wing stalled, putting the plane into a steep starboard bank. Wing collided against the ground, plane disintegrated into two halves, and bursted out in flames.


If the engine reported with problems before T/O was the port one...well you catch my drift. If that's the case, someone just killed 150 people today.

And another matter worth a thought. Normatives says a twin engined commercial plane should be able, once past V1, to get aloft, do a turnaround, and a safe emergency landing on just one engine. This was not the case. Barring a posible human mistake from the pilot, there's something really strange in there.

As a pilot, I'm used to it, but that's a whole lot of speculation. Not to say it doesn't sound like a good possibility, but nothing drives an aviator nuts as much as the mass speculation (usually wrong) that goes on all over after an air crash from forums to major news networks. (The latter being the biggest offenders....)

None the less, a tragedy. Breaks your heart.