Originally Posted by
cooperplace
is there someone with authority and detailed 737 knowledge who can explain to interested but uninformed nitwits like me whether any consensus as to cause of this tragedy is emerging?
There can't be consensus in speculation.
Read the thread for that speculation.
Also i have neither authority nor detailed 737 knowledge but i have read the thread.
It probably won't be a single cause, some more likely causes in arbritrary ordering are:
Bad maintenance and not going for a test flight after repeated serious air data problems
Pilots overloaded not fixing the trim
Boeing system design
Apart from that you will have to wait for the report.
Anyway even with full FDR data which this forum does not have they still want to wait for the CVR to be found because they are not sure what happened exactly.
(Maybe they will just publish some interim report when they deem finding the CVR unlikely)