I should like to respond to those that call for this thread (and similar ones) to be stopped.
All that is happening in this thread is an extension of what is happening on the ground. If this prang had happened the day before a PRRuNe Bash, then it would have been the subject of conversation for many. People would relay information heard and relate their experience of similar a/c etc.
Some would say, "I'm not going to speculate about this." and go off to chat with others on other topics. Some would avidly discuss it all evening.
It is human nature to try and make sense of the world we live in and the life that we have made for ourselves upon it.
We all know that it will take months for a definitive result but the lives and livelihood of those posting and reading may depend, in part, upon this. Those that do not wish to read the thread, do not have to
As to the charge that journalists may read the thread and then speculate in public, they have always done that! I am sure that when my grandfather was discussing these sorts of topics at Hendon and Croydon airfields in the 1930s, there would have been plenty of journalists ready to buy him a drink and try to get more information.
I can only repeat, discussing this subject is no different to discussing any other, we are being human.