Originally Posted by
patrickal
.......... But has anyone raised the thought of something akin to hypoxia or carbon monoxide poisoning? These were not two rookies, and yet their behavior is beyond anything any pilot could imagine taking place in a commercial airliner. Could some fault in the pressurization or environmental systems cause them to be disoriented or partially incapacitated?
Yes, I suggested this a while back. Undetected fumes, e.g. CO, undetected food poisoning, undetected depressurisation.
My reasoning, like yours, is because the actions of these pilots were not just accidentally negligent - they were deliberately and therefore criminally negligent. Why would two pilots be criminally negligent unless they were mentally compromised in some way?
I don't buy the assertion that the pilots were discussing Covid19 for the last 30 mins either.
Maybe the Captain's son was in his seat driving Daddy's plane, and it got out of hand before the Captain could get back in his seat? I hope not.