Change Needed Now
This site MUST be re-named....to say the Aviation Rumours Network, or the like....simply to avoid any of the media confusing educated professional opinion with general public outcry, however well-meaning it may be.
There is such an abundance of ill-informed material on this thread alone, it makes me shudder to think that the Times, Sky, BBC, or others may be attributing this to Professional Pilots, as per the title of the web-site.
As a professional pilot, who has subscribed to this once-excellent website, I believe the time has come for us pros to dissociate ourselves from this vehicle of rumour-mongering, in order to ensure our reputation as a professional body is not further damaged. That is not to level criticism at the moderators, who are excellent. This has nevertheless become a circus.
And as regards this nasty accident, no-one yet has the slightest clue as to what caused it. Just theories, without all the facts to hand.