Maybe it's time for a bit of reflection here.
I watched some of the coverage yesterday on the 24 hour news channels. To some extent I feel sorry for the presenters and producers as they feel a need to continually update us on what's happening. However, the problem with such accidents is that it takes a while for data to come through. Perhaps in such occasions it would be better to say there's been an accident - we'll update you as we get "official" bulletins. Instead we get a stream of "experts" who have little time to be fully briefed on what's going on, who try to give informative answers, but who sometimes lead to red herrings - ie confusion on what is meant by "losing an engine", reliability of A300s etc etc.
I'm sure there are many news editors clamouring for stories at the moment, but maybe it's time to hold back a bit and wait for the NTSB et al to give their briefings.