Originally Posted by
onetrack
I would suggest that all of these pilots are/were professionals, and carried out their duties in that manner ..
I would rather follow your suggestion from the first part of your post and not suggest anything untill CVRs, FDRs and ATC tapes are read out. I'm not pointing my finger at anyone and I really hope this was just some freak electronic failure that brought these two airplanes together, and not someone fooling around, but this is just hope that's not based on facts. As I see it, all hard facts we have so far could be put into 20-30 words long post.
@ Lenstrad
It is indeed possible that GOL crew had some control after collision but, sadly, there are two more common causes for finding large pieces of airframe at crash site: 1) hitting the ground in flat spin, 2) inflight airframe failure. But let's not speculate, it's better to wait for black boxes to tell their story.