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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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Let's assume all the gauges went dark. They still have a compass right in front of them. Hard to miss that. It's the old-fashioned, basic kind, that works no matter what. Power, no power, doesn't matter. I'll bet you $100 that there's a flashlight in the cockpit, too.
As for the major malfunction and control issues, either the pilots or the autopilot flew that plane for 7 or 8 hours, so things couldn't have been too bad.
Then there's all the other stuff that occured before the left turn.
JR