Quote Originally Posted by jcustis View Post
But bombs going off in cargo holds don't necessarily cause flash burn injuries.

Exploding fuel might cause that, and when you look at the photos of the airframe wreckage on the ground (sans the tail section), it looks like components immediately surrounding and aft of the engines burned to some extent.

The more logical explanation is that a large chunk of the airframe impacted the ground intact and either burst into flame or continued to burn after igniting at some higher altitude. That's where they got the burns.
UK govt believes 'the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device'.