megan;
What would EK's response be to the above?
Well, clearly we have the answer to that question. The crew is apparently history and it doesn't appear as though a report will be issued as to what happened. Even though there are some reasonable scenarios posited, not discussing what happened, even informally, means that the error, whatever it was, has opportunity to re-occur. It has occurred before and the opportunity to learn from what happened here has, it seems, been lost in favour of firing the crew.
It seems that this is the sum total of EK's desired contribution to flight safety, particularly in reference to the knowledge base of this kind of incident.