Too much disinformation has occurred so far, with pilots being blamed in the first HOURS after the crash.
In this case I do think blaming the pilots so early was not unfair based on the information that was quickly available. It was obvious that they put themselves in a position they should not have been in. Whilst the exact details of the whole thing remain open to debate, if the PIC had made the right choices from the start none of the mistakes (on both sides) that followed would have happened and this thread would not exist.