I too saw an eye witness report that the aircraft did not recover from a "vertical pull up". Eye witness reports are one of the most sort after pieces of info for the ATSB to work with. Its up to them to sort out the good from the bad. I get a little tired of people not being allowed to put across their view when we have an accident. Sure its terrible when we loose a fellow aviator even worse when we know them, but if you find the topic too sensitive you probably best not looking at the thread. The more we discuss an accident the better chance we have of understanding what went wrong and why. And maybe not suffer the same fate.