ELAC
Thank you for your comments. Its clear that we agree on many things. It ws my intention to add detail to your comments and not to decry them. My knowledge of such things as vertical stabilisers could be written on the back of a postage stamp, and yes, you are right that some know an awful lot about them. In the main Ive found that the posters who do know what they are talking about have presented things in a clear and unambigous manner.
There have been some very confident explanations as to why AF447 got into difficulties. What seperates the wheat from the chaff in these opinions is whether they are consistent with known facts. The problem being that known facts in this case are very few in number.