Hi BD,
At no time in my above posts did I ever say we pilots should be silent. My tone was more to ask for restraint and to be factual without emotion to best portray the facts from a well educated and responsible pilot workforce. If pilots want to have their voice heard here, then all I asked for was restraint and for people to make well informed comments at the appropriate times when facts are known about the crash. I want the voice of the pilots to be heard as a respectable group who can make definitive factual statements without sensationalising rumours they heard or otherwise. If someone has useful factual information, please post, but ranting on without the evidence from the pilot group as a whole has little credibility.
J