Also worth bearing in mind that some of the Brazilian contributions on here have been from the legal community rather than aviation. I do wonder if there's a chance that some of them are hoping for bigger settlements from an Airbus-sized corporation than they would get from a TAM-sized one?
Let's just categorically state that *no-one* is impugning the ability of the dead pilots, to my knowledge. Even if it does turn out conclusively to be pilot error that turned this accident from likely to inevitable, I don't think there's a pilot out there who hasn't made a potentially deadly mistake in the heat of the moment.