[Flyin_bryan]

I agree speculation is a bad thing.

However, when its purpose is to get a student pilot (all pilots) thinking what could have caused such an accident, and how to avoid what happened, then it has some merrit.

Also, letting joe public know that airplanes do not just fall out of the sky has its merrits as well.

I cannot tell you how many times passengers ask me about accidents and crashes.

I assure them aviation is not inheriently dangerous, but with the proper combination of circumstances and/or mechanical failures accidents can occur, just like an automobile. If they prompt me more I will give them tid bits of "what might have occured".

Full investigations take a long time to come to a conclusion, but for the mean time we can all be investigators trying to avoid anyting that may have caused an accident and keeping ourselves aware. Just don't take it too far "oh this and this happened and I know for a fact".

the article quotes authorities stating a situation where the aircraft was trying to takeoff, so at some point in time this was indeed an aborted takeoff.