Salute!
Sorry, Rob, but unless we delete the word "rumor" I feel we are gonna get a lotta "instant analysis", and I am as guilty as many, but usually wait a hundred or two or thousand posts ( thinking AF447 Tech Log).
If just one war story from a pilot is posted here that had something go bad and resembles the profile of a crash, it is worth looking at. Our Gee-loc problem in the F-16 back in the early 80's got spread by word or mouth before USAF finally did some good analysis. Meanwhile, we all took precautions and looked for potential maneuvers that could have dire consequences. Ditto for my leading edge flap failure, which was publically covered up due to politics. But when the next plane went down, my story spread and we never had another fatality or lost jet.
Just saying.
Gums.