Sitting Bull and C-SAR, thanks for the information you've been sharing.
A post that I was referencing was this one by a Dutch reporter, who never received a post in reply in this forum. The reporter says that he was in email contact with the pilot of the Alitalia flight. Going from Italian to Dutch to English can leave a lot behind in translation, but I would assume that "backangle" means a tail down, nose up configuration.
I'm a reporter of a big Dutch newspaper and had brief contact through email with the pilot of AlItalia who was an eyewitness of the crash in Tripoli. He posted a message on what he saw on the forum of anpac.it. The press-officer of ANPAC told me one brief passage of his post: the plain had far too much speed and was touching the ground with a backangle of more than 20 degrees. A Dutch flight-expert told me that this indicates that the pilot must have been disorientated and that he tried to pull up the plane in the last seconds.
My question: are there any Italian pilots here who can login to the (closed) forum on the website anpac.it? If so, can anyone send me the passage this Italian pilot wrote? As you might know the majority of the victims is Dutch and relatives of them are very interested in everey detail there is to tell. Please leave your message here or send it to: ivar.penris at ad.nl.
http://www.pprune.org/5700833-post644.html
(And please note that post numbers can change over time.)