No-one could have more sympathy than I do for the families left behind by this tragedy, and in an ideal world, we'd all leave it until the BOI reports.(And the BOI would be infallible and incapable of being swayed by anyone with an agenda, and there'd certainly never have been the need for multiple multi-page Chinook threads).
We'd be content to listen to the light programme and wonder whether to buy one of those televisions we'd heard about.
And all journalists would be decent chaps, highly educated, probably former Hurricane pilots during the recent spate of unpleasantness, and so they'd be just as hesitant in raising the subject before the BOI had ground its course.
And Mr Churchill's Government, and its civil servants, would never, ever allow aircrew's lives to be risked in 30 year old aircraft, and if they were lost would have nothing to fear from the most rigorous reports.
But we're not in an ideal world, and threads like this one (and the one that BOAC chose to close) are the virtual water cooler around which people can try to make sense of what happened, and through which non-specialised journos might stand a faint chance of learning something that might make their ramblings slightly less badly wrong.
The stories will be written and broadcast regardless, and the more balanced and correct they are, the less the families will be hurt.
Even if journos wait until the BOI, it's in all our interests that they have some passing knowledge of what has happened, because they won't have time to learn it once their editors press the go button.