lomapaseo, Chris;
it seems we should really be doing it on another thread that has disappeared below the surface...
Agreed. And yes, the search updates are here, recent and available but you're right - so few can talk about that aspect.
I suppose the difficulty in breaking off to a different forum is continuity between the primary discussion, (AF447 Search to resume), what happened between 0209 and 0215 or so, and, because the BEA interim report points to a fully-stalled airplane when it hit the water, (whether we agree or not), how and why such event may have come about, all of which grow out of the original "tree" as it were.
We generally don't know beforehand that the thread is going to branch or at what point the dialogue should split to the Technical Forum and then, once discussed, return to the original topic. In the present case, perhaps a split probably should have occurred the moment that AoA/FPA/Stall behaviour branch was identified but none of us know what a "branch" is until we're well along it and by then it has a history within the larger threads. I know I'm a troublemaker when it comes to drift...
PJ