Clandestno.....fantastic post:
Well, we're out of prejudices here as it happened to long established western flag carrier. Most of the posters feel that it struck close to home and they can not write it off easily as something-that-can't-happen-to-me. Mental gymnastic they perform to deal with their shock and horror is very interesting thing to behold but its results are not particularly informative.
True, what also doesn't sit well is the fact that the plane just fell out of the sky in a stall. The tail didn't tear off, the engines didn't fail, there was no "act of God"...
I have been reading the AF447 threads since day one and have absorbed every conceivable scenario pointing towards some sort of aircraft malfunction. This obviously would have been an easier way for people to digest and understand what had happened.
But from what we know so far...it seems two qualified pilots became disorientated, didn't correctly address the situation, and foundered without fully understanding they were in a stall....
That is hard to deal with, and adds to the depth of the dilemma of trying to comprehend this disaster.
This is everybody's nightmare: pilots, passengers, manufacturers, airline companies....and it isn't going away...