First time poster, followed link from Wikipedia.
OK, I have nothing to offer to this already "hot" debate, but I do have one or two things to ask:
1. Why do people complain about speculation on a site which is dedicated to Rumour?
2. What is an SLF, (as I have a feeling I am one)?
3. Why has only one person mentioned lightning?
4. Thank <insert your preferred deity here> that every single soul aboard survived to tell the tale. Is anybody seriously suggesting that to get that plane to "hit" the ground safely as it did was not a(n) heroic feat?
So shoot me.
r011in