I've hesitated to watch that doc simply because it's never been found and there's nothing more to add to the story, at least not yet. So I didn't want to watch it for 3 hours or however long and then have them basically go at the end.
It’s got a lot of conspiracies, but as mentioned, it’s presenting them in a way that says this guy is a moron.
Thing that makes the most sense to me is there was some type of pressurization issue. Then the plane eventually exhausted it's fuel.
The ocean currents seem to line up with the Southern Indian Ocean crash site, but still, why were they down there? I also love how they brought the lady on who looked at ocean pictures and decided that amorphous blobs of whitecaps were the plane and just hung her out.
It’s been a while, but when I read a few longform articles and watched some of the previous TV specials on it, it seemed like the expert consensus was that the older pilot intentionally depressurized the cabin and then flew the plane on the route that ended in the Southern Indian Ocean.
I just don’t get why you take it somewhere random like that until you run out of fuel. If you’re going to knock everyone out and eventually crash, why not just take the dive right away?
If it was just a random depressurization it wouldn't explain why the transponder was manually turned off and why it flew the route it did. This is plausible. Wait for copilot to leave for restroom and barricade yourself in the cockpit (See germanwings 9525 crash). Depressurize the cabin, turn off transponder, and change routing in FMS.
Been awhile since I read up on it as well but I couldn't buy the intentional angle from the pilot. Seemed like little to no motive. He wasn't suicidal according to this that knew him and I just couldn't get there
I thought there were links to some political candidate who got arrested the day before and his marriage recently ending but I’d have to re-visit. Plus apparently he had flown the exact route on his Flight Simulator.
Yeah there's some evidence pointing in that direction but nothing really concrete which makes me default to an accident until there's something more substantive. Nothing really makes sense to me
I believe most of the evidence points to a human controlled aircraft flying the plane until its last moments. So given that, an intentional crash is the most plausible, and a pilot suicide being the most plausible intentional crash in this scenario.
I'm guessing spinning at the frame rate, because there'd be some rotation just from the lift effect and wind on the blades
Obviously the crossing is the big red flag here, but a starting a takeoff roll with someone on a 2 miles final is cutting shit REALLY fucking close too.
Apparently this afternoon a bunch of people reported a large boom in DC. Seems to have been a fighter out of Atlantic City going supersonic to intercept a Citation where the pilot lost consciousness.
So the thought is someone flew into a restricted area because they were out of control (passed out) and the f-16s followed it until it crashed?
State police searching near Staunton, which is not SWVA, not that it matters. Cloudcover has meant no air searching yet. From local news site.