[singpilot]

More developments today. The Cockpit Voice Recorder CASE has been found. The innards have not been found. These things are designed for like 1000g's (crash). The pictures after the crash usually show these having been pried open, even after the crash.

The captains remains have not been found / identified. Granted, there can be a common area of several remains in one spot, but seems strange as well.

Climbing out of Larnaca, the flight requested a delay at 16000 feet to 'address a pressurization concern'. They were there for 3 minutes, then requested the rest of the climb.

The aircraft flew the entire route with no further communication after the Greek boundary, the normal arrival, transition, approach, ILS and missed approach to the miss holding fix, and entered the missed approach hold, all at 32000 feet. All at cruise speed. The entire aircraft route would have been preprogrammed by the crew either enroute or prior to takeoff. The aircraft would not have left cruise altitude unless the altitude command knob had been set to a lower altitude by the crew (who were asleep). The aircraft was in that hold just north of Athens for 90 minutes. Until they ran out of fuel, and at least one engine flamed out. The now single engine electric situation would have disconnected the autopilot, and according to the intercept pilots, it rolled off and spiralled in.

There's an unspoken situation here. From 32000 feet the guided (under control) gliding range of a powerless 737 is over 100 miles. The hold fix was 35 miles north of Athens, 25 miles northwest of the airport. The interceptors were there not to just investigate. The plane happened to flame out on a leg of the racetrack shaped hold pointed away from the city. The interceptors did not have to execute their probable second set of orders.