I believe dang pruned it due to not enough information being out in order to foster anything beyond the wildest of speculations. Such as people thinking it was another MAX 8 at some points.

While I don't agree with the course of action; I can see the temptation to doing so.

Often at least waiting til the CVR and black box data is found is necessary to really know for sure what ended up transpiring. Though there were apparently some mobile phone videos of things of dubious provenance/quality in the original threads that I was aware of and are still searchable. Of which there are at least 2 currently via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...