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It initially made a big fireball that was all over the back of the plane, but when it started rolling over and over, it seems to have had the same effect as when a person who's on fire rolls over and over on the ground to put the flames out. The cold and snow seemed to help kill the flames as well, although I'm sure the runway would have been plowed and salted fairly clean.

The videos that show the people getting off the plane also show fire trucks hosing down the plane. I read somewhere that after everyone got off the plane, it burst into flames again.

It's truly a blessing from God that everyone survived.
The plane was landing at the end of the flight so I'm guessing it had little fuel left on board, hence the lack of big fireball. Also, fuel tanks in the wings, so that would have gone when the wings snapped off.

The landing didn't look that hard (speaking as a guy who likes to go out to the airport and watch the takeoffs and landings). Even on a hard landing the plane will bounce, but here the right main gear just seemed to give way immediately.
 
The plane was landing at the end of the flight so I'm guessing it had little fuel left on board, hence the lack of big fireball. Also, fuel tanks in the wings, so that would have gone when the wings snapped off.

The landing didn't look that hard (speaking as a guy who likes to go out to the airport and watch the takeoffs and landings). Even on a hard landing the plane will bounce, but here the right main gear just seemed to give way immediately.

It was descending way too rapidly, there's a reason that FO that was holding was filming the plane that crashed. It was going too fast at too steep of an angle to make that landing and that's why the landing gear gave up in my opinion (maybe bad maintenance could be part of the issue, sure). You can see the over correcting from the aelerons from the high winds, they had a head wind that means more lift my guess is that they forced the landing. Go around would've been safer but hey, we all want to get home early right?

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This is just my opinion from the few videos we've seen the investigation will take months and there will be some redactions there to protect the pilots.
 
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