...and now the speculations begin...

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...l=968793972154

According to eyewitness reports:

"Workers at Halifax International Airport watched in horror as the tail of the giant aircraft hit an earthen mound topped by navigation towers at the end of the runway and broke, sending the plane careening into thick brush.

"Probably the last couple of hundred feet there was nothing but bright white sparks like you've never seen before," said Paul Sharpe, a JetsGo worker who talked to an eyewitness moments after the crash.

"He said there was a bit of an explosion when the tail of the aircraft hit . . . and the rest was history. He just never got high enough to clear those towers."

The tail of the wide-body plane, owned by MK Airlines Ltd. of Britain and Ghana, lay in a field at the end of the runway, inside the fence surrounding the airport property.

"The aircraft basically didn't take off," said Steve Anderson, an airline spokesman in Sussex, England. "She continued her (takeoff run) and ran off the runway and ran into woods."

The cause of the crash wasn't known, but Sharpe lent support to unconfirmed reports that the 747 didn't have enough runway to take off safely.

He said the plane was supposed to leave from the end of a 2,700-metre runway, but entered through a taxiway at the 2,000-metre mark.

"From where she left, they only had about 6,000 feet and it just wasn't enough runway," he said" The Star