Hamburt Spinkleman
"Word games or feigned ignorance does not alter the fact that no flaps were extended. Neither were slats."
Hmm......At Impact? You don't even know that for certain. Is that from chicken guts? Ouija? Not extended then retracted between LOC and Impact?
Who's making bold statements?
If such selections were made, it meant the pilots were desperate, and it is very important to paint them not as desperate, but stupid. Desperate draws attention to their lack of instrumentation, or displays, and that might be construed as a platform problem? Only stupid pilots get wet? Nothing re: Flaps slats or spoilers can be demonstrated conclusively, probably ever. That means certainly that not disclosing these things brings no harm. Only to the pilots, and once they are demonstrated to be fools, to the majority, we can move on?