Experts suspect take-off misconfiguration or the flaps being raised instead of the landing gear could have led to the deadly accident.

Records show the jet is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner - a wide-body passenger jet the American firm had only launched in the last two decades. The plane in question had been in…

The possible causes are said include a rapid change in wind, bird strike or weather, former pilots have suggested, with an investigation yet to uncover the exact cause