The initial survey found some charred wood, indicating a fire may have played a part in the ship's loss.
The first plume comes from the surrounding woods and indicates a fire created by newcomers, two men and a woman, who have put up a rough hut there.
Investigators had earlier said the other black box retrieved from the crash site, the data recorder, confirmed that smoke alarms had sounded onboard, while soot on wreckage indicates a fire.
In the period 1996 2009, for 108 patients (3% of all patients) the first care record in their very first fire-related care episode did not indicate a fire-related E-code (ICD-10: X00-X09, X97, X97, Y26) or any diagnosis of burn injury (ICD-10: T20-T32, T95) or any diagnosis of combustion gas poisoning (ICD-10: T58-T59).
Reports from VOA Somali and AirLive.net indicated a possible fire on board and photos showed a blown out section of the plane next to a passenger window near the wing.
Also, the maximum temperature and FSV of surface fire in wood dust layers were far greater than these of smoldering fires, indicating a greater fire hazard for surface fire.
A severity rating of 5 denotes sustained crown fire across the plot, a rating of 4 indicates high mortality but no sustained crown fire, a rating of 1 indicates a ground fire that incompletely consumed surface vegetation and killed few trees, while a rating of 2 or 3 represents intermediate levels of fire severity and mortality (adapted from [74]).
A severity rating of 5 denotes sustained crown fire across the plot, a rating of 4 indicates high mortality but no sustained crown fire, a rating of 1 indicates a ground fire that incompletely consumed surface vegetation and killed few trees, while a rating of 2 or 3 represents intermediate levels of fire severity and mortality (adapted from [ 74]).
Christian Tisch, director of a team of police technicians, said initial evidence indicated that a fire may have started soon after the cable car left a base station and before it entered the Alpine tunnel.
