New shows debris immediately on land, I.E. on the sea wall.
So he hit the wall he was WAY too low. Should be 100 ft or more ‘up’ at that earliest section of the runway.
Similar circumstances to this previous 777 crash. Extended time overwater at high altitude cools the fuel to very low temperatures, possibly exacerbating fuel metering issues.
On final the engines have to spool up to counter drag from final flaps and landing gear — making short final the most likely time for a fuel metering restriction issue to manifest itself.
“A fuel-flow restriction at the fuel/oil heat exchanger (FOHE) on the right engine and “most likely” on the left-hand FOHE resulted in the January 2008 crash of a 777 on approach to London Heathrow, according to the UK Department for Transport Aircraft Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) final report on the accident. Following a 10.5-hour flight from Beijing, the 777 (flying as British Airways Flight 38) lost power on its final approach to Heathrow, as both engines suffered an uncommanded “rollback” (or power reduction) at 720 feet and the airliner subsequently made a forced landing about 1,100 feet short of the runway and just inside the airport boundary. Ice in the fuel system had restricted fuel flow to the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, according to investigators. All passengers survived....”
Sounds very much like the Lion Air crash at Ngurah Rai in Bali a couple months back. But that was a 737-800, much smaller than the 777, but the circumstances of the crash were similar, the pilot coming in over water and failing to maintain altitude.