41.   Antara said rescue workers were still trying to salvage the plane and had managed to remove the right engine.

42.   The right engine appeared to have been shut off.

43.   The right engine began to spit flames.

44.   It said that the right engine closest to the fuselage showed signs of fire damage, further evidence that an explosion occurred in that vicinity.

45.   Search teams working in the bone-chilling cold said they hoped to unearth the right engine and establish whether something was wrong with it.

46.   The finding supported a theory that the right engine might have come loose.