24 hours later and we are well into 11 pages of mostly useless conjecture and although well intentioned, many rather naive questions from interested from posters that never have participated on this forum until a sensational tragedy.
At the moment 99% of the posts here are just useless noise.
Perhaps in the future when we have these inevitable events, PPRUNE can have two threads on the event.
One thread could be reserved for open questions/conjecture/rumours/newbies/journos/uneducated theories and questions.
Another thread could be reserved for posters who identify their pilot/flight ops/engineering/technical and airline management backgrounds, before they comment on events like this.
Just a thought for future events.
My thoughts are with those affected by this accident. It's sad when it happens to a large carrier as it's happened at mine, even worse with a small tight group who knows everyone.