Did you read anything on the report, holdingagain?
It was refuelled right before the flight.
Page 2, second paragraph, first sentence.
TWT, if there was a checklist either
a) it didn't have trims on it (that would be surprising) or
b) he didn't use the checklist properly.
mostlytossas, I agree that there were a few wild theories, but there were other good discussion points that many of us got involved in, whether or not they had, at the time, any potential contribution towards the accident. Do you not think that investigators come up with theories and investigate them whilst looking through evidence, even just to discount certain possibilities?