[Flatlander]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-17788698

Nasty.

Possible downburst on approach?

[Stuart Robinson]

Dlooks like a downburst - very sad

[JOKE_SNOW]

I'm not sure of the aviation terminology, but water saturation/suffocation? of the engines combined with shear may have played a role. Witnesses to the crash say parts of the plane was already on fire before it hit the ground which would be a good indicator of a flame-out, something which happens when the engines are starved of enough supportable oxygen to burn the fuel and begins to burn the more pure JET A1 as a means of compensation. Damaging the engines and of course with the already-slow descent probobally stalling the plane on the finals.