Originally Posted by md11pilot11

I posted a video over in the safety thread of a 787 that had a tire failure and hydraulic failure. The gear retraction begins but the doors on the main gear do not open. Only the nose gear retracts. But the main gear do tilt forward. In addition, I’ve seen many pictures now of the wreckage and the slats are deployed and the flaps look to be extended. Also, I believe that if the smoking gun isn’t in the FDR I’m not sure if we will ever know what happened. There are videos of fire trucks driving over the wings, heavy equipment picking up landing gear parts, hundreds of people picking up parts and walking all over everything. Also videos of people moving and touching body parts. It’s just a terrible situation and very graphic… it seems like with a major post crash fire and the amount of disruption to the wreckage it may be impossible to trace things down. In addition, India is not known for their transportation safety and I am unaware but will the military be conducting the investigation or does India have a transportation investigation team? I do not believe the NTSB will be involved. Only Boeing who could be incentivized to blame everything else than themselves in similar fashion to the Air Lauda crash.