Hi BOAC,
I will repeat my opinion that the release by BEA was 'mischievous'.
I don't think the BEA are "mischievous". The full official report usually takes months, sometimes years to produce. There was a thirst for a briefing as to what may have gone wrong, and the BEA released some information.
Something similar happened with the B777 at LHR 2008 pprune discussions. It's not the BEA who are mischievous - it's us - the pprune posters.
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...crash-lhr.html