But here is a line of initial speculation that I bet will lead nowhere and should be played down: suggesting that the airplane itself, a Russian-made Tupolev-154 that will probably be described as some aging rustbucket overdue for replacement, was the "cause" of the crash.... Maybe there will prove to have been something wrong with this airplane.
Never can so many fine actors have generated so little pleasure (Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman and several other luminaries are all sunk in Mr Curtis's rustbucket).
Now it is a leaky rustbucket, manned by a handful of Philippine marines to symbolise that these waters are within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) the Philippines claims under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
They rejuvenated the old Routemaster bus, giving it a double staircase, huge glass frontage, wraparound views of London and a saucy diagonal slash at the rear, turning the wheezy old rustbucket into a glamorous woman in a bias-cut frock.
Still, if by some million-to-one cannce he can get his rustbucket off the scrapheap, and into a title fight with an undefeated robo-Tyson, then he could turn his life around.
His fortunes look up when his beloved stepdaughter, Rym (Hafsia Herzi), helps him to establish a restaurant on a rustbucket boat, but the tensions stirring between his various relatives threaten to boil over on opening night.
#rustbucket" During the day, this is roughly true, though the arty steel loop that hovers above the plaza at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues does create a light and open feeling, uncommon to a commercial and generally anonymous area.
To look at, it's no rustbucket, kept in good shape by its Indian crew – but when I visited a week ago, they hadn't been paid by the ship's owners for all those months.
In the 1970s Elton John was still "Dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans" but Chevrolet was turning out spluttering rustbuckets like the Vega.
The only land route to the Baltic Fleet headquarters in Kaliningrad runs through Lithuania, and while that fleet is now a sorry collection of rustbuckets, it has symbolic weight.
Only a few cars are scattered across the lot — funky foreign rustbuckets adorned with yoga stickers or a little plastic hula girl perched on the dashboard.
