Obviously, I'm not a pilot, but with Gums last remark it looks like some cool heads with access to full aerodynamical modelling tools for this 737 type, and maybe a test plane should look at the situation in detail. The problem is that everybody will now be tied up in legal knots and fingerpointing for an unknown amount of time, as any computed, simulated or real data could end up used in court to decide on the compensation to the souls aboard the lost airframe. One of the absuridties of a system in which saying sorry we made a mistake has become impossible.
Edmund