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Originally Posted by javadog
They made a turn west. One of two possibilities there; they had an emergency and were diverting to an alternate airport, or it was a deliberate and nefarious act and my theory rules. If it was an emergency, it either incapacitated the pilots, or it did not. If they were incapacitated, the plane would not have turned south by itself and flown towards Australia. It would have kept heading west. If the pilots were not incapacitated, they would not have flown the plane where it ended up. They would have tried to land it. Only one conclusion, really.
Feel free to add in all of the other mysterious details that occurred in the first two hours. It's really hard to explain all of those away, unless you have a rogue pilot.
When it's all said and done, I think you'll find the course that was flown in the first three hours very interesting, and a lot more convoluted than what I have written here. I think the pilot was evading the radar coverage as best he could.
JR
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it is fairly easy to get lost, at 30k feet, without instruments or lights, at night, possibly with aircraft malfunctions and control issues ....