Arrow Air Flight 1285 - Any Further Thoughts?

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I was wasting time at Wikipedia, trying to see if December 12 was the anniversary of any important event, when I ran across this:

Arrow Air Flight 1285

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Arrow Air Flight 1285 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 registered N950JW. On December 12, 1985, the aircraft was chartered to carry US servicemen from a six-month stay in the Sinai, where they were overseeing a peacekeeping force, back to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Around 6:45 in the morning, Flight 1285 took off from Gander International Airport in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada bound for Kentucky. Shortly after take-off, the aircraft experienced an increase in drag and reduction in lift, which resulted in a stall at low altitude from which recovery was not possible (according to the Canadian Aviation Safety Board). This was due to an ice build up on the wing. The aircraft then crashed to the ground, creating a fire that burned for four hours.

The nine member Safety Board was nearly split on the matter of the probable cause of the accident, with the majority five members supporting the official report concluding that it was due to a failure to adequately remedy ice contamination on the wings before takeoff. However the other four memebers of the board took the all but unheard of step of issuing a dissenting minority report, suggesting that the disaster grew of much more nefarious origins:

". . We cannot agree--indeed, we categorically disagree--with the majority findings . . . The evidence shows that the Arrow Air DC-8 suffered an on-board fire and a massive loss of power before it crashed . . . The fire may have been associated with an in-flight detonation from an explosive or incendiary device."
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Oh, really? Gee, that seems kind of important. Since this is the 19th anniversary of that crash, have there been any further thoughts on the cause of the crash?

Tragedy at Gander