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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
it is fairly easy to get lost, at 30k feet, without instruments or lights, at night, possibly with aircraft malfunctions and control issues ....
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Ummm, probably not for a pilot that has been flying that route for years. Lots of real obvious landmarks northbound at 30k ft.
Anything is possible but it looks like the flight path was changed intentionally from the few crumbs of info we have. A major mechanical issue and course change without a distress call??? Highly unlikely but again... still remotely possible. Commercial pilots don't like to stray from their lanes into possible unknown intersecting traffic.