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Many years ago, there was a Flight Safety poster bearing the words "Very few people are eaten by alligators: most are nibbled to death by ducks". In other words, very few aircraft accidents have one single, catastrophic failure as the direct cause. Most are the end result of an accumulation of minor (sometimes trivial) events which ultimately end in a fatal accident. Makes no difference whether that result is a heap of smoking wreckage on a cloud-covered Mull, or the remains of a Nimrod strewn across the Afghan bundu.
Whether we are discussing waypoint changes, possible intended landings outside the tasked flight or the crew's eating patterns, these all fall into the "nibbled to death by ducks" category. Why? Because there is simply no evidence that any of these is or was responsible for the catastrophe.
Ergo, we simply cannot allow the intolerable verdict of gross negligence to stand. Solid evidence, not speculation, is required to support that finding. As the evidence does not appear to exist, the finding must be overturned.
That is the sole purpose of this thread, so will you and the others please stop floating red herrings across the stream.