Originally Posted by
Taped2Seat
Yeah, biggest issue is not been able to trust data coming out of the quoted sources. Good article btw - hard to believe it came from CNN.
Originally Posted by
savall
I think Bill may have pieced together one of the more logical and reasonable articles since this whole thing started. I'm still concerned with the fact that no one can positively verify where this airplane was. Was it north or was it south ? Was it zig zagging or straight ? Still sounds to me like there could have been an instance that caused hypoxia and a turn over the ocean was initiated.
This is exactly what I thought...until I saw the track after the comms-loss. It's straight lines between waypoints with sharp turns at waypoints. That only happened if the plane was being positively controlled by a pilot or AP/FMS. And somebody had to load the new flight plan, for some reason.
I'll still acknowledge the remote possibility that a well-intentioned pilot fighting a casualty changed the flight plan to head back to land by pulling up an old or stored plan that headed in the direction he wanted to go. But that's not really very likely. Possible, but not likely.