"All these differences are superficial. The cause of that crash was specifically found to be the reprogramming of the flight computers by management @ 1 AM the morning before the crash and then never informing the flight crew."
You're absolutely right, of course, and it's so dismaying that this thread has so quickly descended to the stupidest level of uninformed speculation. I realize that this is a "rumo[u]r network," but when the comments become little different than those posted by nonpilots on U.S. aggregator sites such as Daily Beast and Huffington Post, I wonder why I bother to keep coming back here.