LJ du Toit
I found this forum a few days after May 12, since a very good friend of mine (Anton Matthee, from Stellenbosch, South Africa) died on this flight, and I needed to support the widow with as many pertinent and (as far as possible) factual data bits related to her husband's untimely death.
Welcome aboard. None of us envy your position, and you certainly deserve our support.
As I'm sure you have recognized by now, this is not always the most gentlemanly (or ladylike) of forums, and at this stage of investigation many theories are propagated. Most have at least some smattering of respectability. But the real value here is the ability of most contributors to see through the haze of politics that can disguise the truth.
Hope you can stick around.