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Originally Posted by pavulon
Possibly but he had a fair number of minutes to consider what he was going to do and change his mind. Given the outcome, I find it odd that he descended relatively slowly rather than straight down.
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My understanding from several comments on the news, is that the computer system would prevent that type of action, or make it extremely difficult and that's why speculation is he set the autopilot into a gradual descent.
Now, not knowing how the system works, I don't know why he couldn't just switch off the autopilot and plunge the plane into the ground. Can someone address this for us?
We all have to keep in mind that if he was dealing with mental health problems, his "logic" and rationality is not the same as ours. As mentioned earlier, this could have been a spur of the moment decision--a crime of opportunity. Yes, he made deliberate moves to crash the plane but to do it on that day and on that flight may not have been planned. When an opportunity arose, however, he used it. I agree with rattlsnak's musing, it may not have happened at all had the pilot not left the flight deck. Sadly, we'll never know.