Latest press reports/ speculation
Today they report that
Spanish authorities hope to issue a preliminary report in 2 - 3 weeks.
Pilot was off course
Pilot was in air about 4 minutes
Pilot may have been trying an emergency landing as the exact spot of the crash was the only relatively flat terrain nearby but, as above, was off course for the trip he was apparently making.
Much further speculation about the knowledge the pilot did or did not have of the sling status when he took off as well as repitition of the "fact" that the sling snagged the tree and was the immediate cause of the crash.