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Originally Posted by gamin
Hope I didn't miss a post about this, but I have read that the capt's wife and kids moved out of their house the day before the flight (they were separated but living under the same roof), that he was having relationship problem with girlfriend, and that a close friend of his said that he was not in mental shape to fly that day for the reasons mentioned. Devastated by wifey moving out and might have gone for a final "joy ride." Food for thought, or comment.
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Yes, that is the most current story circulating, all based on the information of one unidentified "friend" who, himself, says it is all speculation on his part. The story was reported in the New Zealand Herald and picked up by other news sources around the world. It is simply an elaboration of the pilot suicide theory which was proposed from the beginning.
Now, all that being said, it is the one theory that can account for all the unusual circumstances in this incident and do so
in the simplest possible way. As information has been withdrawn or changed because of reliability, pilot suicide is the only one that can withstand the appearance of new data, to date.
Here's the ringer--if wreckage is never found, there can never be a determination of a mechanical cause. Unless the flight data recorder is recovered and the data show a malfunction of some sort, a mechanical cause cannot be supported. Since there is no evidence of an outside person or group hijacking the plane, that only leaves one theory that is the simplest, pilot suicide. I'm afraid that's what this whole incident will be hung on.
I'm prepared for years to pass with
no physical evidence of cause and the pilot will be the defacto villain. I hope I'm wrong.