Originally Posted by
Anvaldra
Some colleagues flew there that day and experienced very unstable atmosphere which caused speed shift, beyond the limitation in certain cases
Had it not been for the press reports that the crew had reported technical problems before requesting a level change, the above could perhaps have provided some basis for speculation that wheather could have been a factor. If therefore we accept the report of a technical problem as being correct, then I would have thought it would be reasonable to assume the ensuing crash is more likely to have been brought about by that than any other instigating factor in the causal chain of events.