Thank you both. I have to say that I cannot detect any evidence of secret agendas and if indeed there were any then the aircraft would still have to be operated in a safe way. Also clearing the crew of liability seems rather difficult for surely all the evidence points to a impact with high terrain at high speed in poor weather. Certainly one can argue that absolute evidence is not possible without flight and cockpit recorders and that the findings broke with the tradition of not finding deceased crew guilty of negligence, but it was probably time for this quaint tradition to be binned. Certainly there are many different views expressed and many contrary pieces of evidence, but picking through it is pretty clear that the conditions were very poor, the aircraft was being flown at high speed in controlled flight towards high ground, that the crew knew of that hazard or should have done as the nav system was accurate. Looks like pretty risky stuff?