What’s your take on formal accident reports?
They take months to years to compile. It seems to me that the majority of folks on this thread need to take a deep breath and wait for the data to come in before making such broad assumptions. The first rule of accident investigation is don't draw any conclusions until all the available data is in and we're a damn long way from that right now. Given the lack of flight data in the absence of the FDR memory card, the Prosecutor in France who claims this was a deliberate act is, at best, speculating as to the true cause, particularly in light of other Airbus crashes and their causes. The media, right on time, is sensationalizing what is pure speculation. As many times as this has happened in recent memory you'd think more people would recognize it for what it is, but I guess not.