It is an aside, distasteful is picking over every detail, now that it looks like these poor people have lost their lives... The posts are no more offensive than others continually ruminating and speculating on what has or hasn't happened to the poor people aboard that flight.
Hissy, I think you are spectacularly missing the point here. A lot of people on this post are people who have some kind of connection to this story, whether it's because they work in aviation, have family in the investigation teams, who fly frequently in the area, or who live locally, and who are genuinely trying to make sense of what has up to now looked like an impossible mystery. A member of my family is now part of an organisation that is being thoroughly slated in the press and by other parties for doing nothing other than trying to sort out what did happen which I personally find quite hard to deal with. So yes, I've got several personal links to what happened here.
Some of the rumination on this thread has veered into slightly more excited wondering than I've found comfortable at times, but it's almost always stayed on topic. I did come back to post after your defence of the above off topic veering into property porn because I wanted to try and say to you, rather than running off to Mum(snet HQ) why I thought your posts and those of a couple of others were egregiously out of order.