Originally Posted by TPROP4ever

Oh geez, quit sounding like an incensed pre madonna, that and 9 posts makes me question your motives. YOU are completely off base, What we ( the pilots that struggle in the 121 environment, everyday) are trying to say is simply STOP SPECULATING, AND ASSUMING WHAT HAPPENED, UNTIL WE KNOW, AND YES THAT TAKES TIME, and then we can learn from the mistakes( be they pilot error or not), and adjust so a tradegy like this doesnt happen again..If you are a professional pilot ( as your profile suggests) then I think youd agree that to guess at the cause of this, and then change the way you fly based on that GUESS , would be totally uncalled for, and extremely premature.

That is all gear down before landing final checks...