Originally Posted by sorn
Two new circles in hell are currently under construction for armchair air crash investigators. The outer circle is for people who don't know any better. The inner circle is for people like Mr. Garrison who should.
^^^^^^
I'm glad he was able to get so much from an image of a tailfin, where the rupture zone couldn't even be seen clearly.
He's got a preconceived idea (it was a rudder failure, because of the AA A330 accident) and now he's looking for evidence to fit that idea.
That's precisely the wrong way to go about it. Even he says that the reason for the crash is unknown - and then goes on to fit some bits of evidence (based on nothing but a photograph
) into his preconceived idea.
If it's established that the pilots were in any way at fault over this, I hope he publishes a column apologising for blackening their names, possibly needlessly.