I was mostly angered after I donated $$$ THEN I saw their insulting posts!

I didn't throw the first punch, before "dc8" and his classy friend "cheaptrick" got exceedingly uncivil. I doubt they would be like that to my face. Again I donated to the memorial / emergency cash fund in response to that *********'s plea. It started as $50,000, then raised target to $75,000, and now stands at $131,000. I'm not going to take my donation back, but you decide if this how things should be done, or not.

In my field if you become exceedingly defensive instead of honest and open after a tragedy, well yes, that is suspicious. Getting all defensive and throwing back wild punches is not doing their team any good in this situation.

Sorry if I hurt their team's feelings asking obvious questions. Your faith in RB "I never met the guy" is much higher than mine.

Grumble, in a relatively short time, I have almost as many hours as the test pilot/engineer that was killed. I hang out here because other pilot BBS have advanced topics such as "HOW DO I REQUEST FLIGHT FOLLOWING" or "I CANT SEEM TO GET LANDING DOWN".

Their feelings are hurt but they will heal, and we will get the full NTSB report, and aviation will hopefully be stronger as a result. RIP.