OOPS - plusthe landowner says there is a line of clipped trees and fences from the runway to the crash site.
Something went VERY wrong here - I cant imagine how so many F'ed up at the same time.
If the plane is tail toward the airport, then he didn't have time to turn around and head back.
Now....from your pilot's view point. Where did he start to take off?
From the intersection of the two runways, or did he go to the very end of the shorter RW and take advantage of the full length.
If he was let's hurry up and beat the traffic to Atlanta....then could he have started from the intersection?
Thanks for posting the map. It looks like the captain may have stopped his taxi to the longer runway roo soon. See the dark splotch where the terminal appears to be? To get to the departure end of the long runway, he'd have to go past the departure end of the short runway and continue on a little more. It appears to me that they may have stopped the taxi and turned to their takeoff position too soon.
But what the heck was happening with the controller working tower?! Here at our local field, I've heard alert local controllers practically jump through the microphone at a clueless student pilot who read back a "hold short" instruction as a "position and hold" instruction, and then "position and hold" as "cleared fo rtakeoff." They were asked to taxi back and call the tower.