Originally Posted by
broadreach
In any case I'm sure the balanced posts and hypotheses suggested in this long thread will have been noted.
No doubt. The vast majority of those dealt with technical issues related to the flight.
What would be interesting is for the pilot and ATC folks on here to make recommendations on how to improve things, based upon their knowledge of the incident.
I also wonder how people feel about the bigger questions raised by the events, such as the criminal investigation, the detention of the pilots, the military control of ATC, the government officials making public statements blaming the pilots, possible criminal charges for allegedly not noticing a transponder isn't working, etc.
One can only hope that this tragedy serves as a lesson in a lot of ways.