Ignorance is clearly not restricted to the media!
I haven't posted in more than two years but i can't hold back in the face of all this cr@p.
I can't believe that posters on this thread will slag off the "ignorant media" while tolerating the absolute tripe that is being written on this thread.
As you know the site has been swamped with journos trying to get an inside track from the "knowledgable, professional pilots" on this forum. With a few notable exceptions we have proved that we are behaving as anything but.
We can speculate for ever until the facts are made public. Until then, shut the hell up and let the professionals do their job of finding out what went wrong, how it happened, and what we can learn from the whole episode.
I apologise to those professionals who have enlightened us somewhat with their informed speculation, but as a BA 777 pilot based at Heathrow, I can barely stand by to read all the utter tosh that passes for "pilots'" comments in this thread.