Originally Posted by
Capvermell
Perhaps the workload during the descent for landing and the intermediate altitude presented the greatest likelihood of non recovery of the dive (by the other pilot) while still being high enough to ensure total destruction of the aircraft on impact.
Its either that or alternatively some never before seen sudden and catastrophic structural failure in an elderly and probably high number of cycles aircraft. Probably the change in pressure from 10,000m to 5,000m was exactly the point at which a failure induced by the change in cabin pressure might take place?
cabin pressure would have been reduced to very little at this stage of the flight..who's to know..everybody only guessing at this point, and there is no "sudden change" normally in the pressurization of the aircraft, the system brings it down at nice comfortable 350-500 feet per minute...wait and see...hope it had a new enough DFDR to give good information...