ekw: ....airline pilots do not have a monopoly on aircraft crash investigations. A whole range of skills are involved. Even when there is no evidence, brain storming often helps those concerned to think of something that never occurred to them.
My point exactly. I wasn't arguing against a free exchange of ideas on this forum, but rather encouraging it. Being human, unfortunately airline pilots are sometimes the cause of crashes, while those skilled in scientific disciplines save thousands of lives through painstaking analysis that prevents future accidents.
We all learn from others in a variety of fields, especially folks from ATC, weather, engineering, design, maintenance, cabin crew, and accident investigation. However, the name of the forum is "Professional Pilots" and it's a distraction to have to explain the basics to those lacking even a peripheral connection to aviation.
But we should not become so insular as to suggest that only pilots who are typed and current on the specific model as the accident aircraft have anything to offer in a thread such as this.
As for reporters, the general public, and anyone else including families who might read these comments, the internet is open and if we're to be constrained by having to consider misinterpretations of what they might read here, then there'll be no forum at all.