dear SaturnV and PBL
-the Alitalia crew made an official statement to the relevant authorities and it has not been made public
-no matter what their position was (actually exactly towards the approaching A330), they still remain the only people that witnessed the crash
-as stated in an earlier post: whatever happened before the A330 came into their view remains to be retrieved from the DFDR and the CVR (in progress)
if you allow me to offer my personal opinion on the suggestions that Libya might not release the accident report: I had the possibility to speak to several of the Libyans in charge of the investigation and I did not get the feeling that they will try to keep the results a secret. As a matter of fact they have conducted the investigation very professionally so far