Originally Posted by
Cool banana
A total of 132 people on board, made up with 123 passenger and 9 crew members, so at least one or both jump seats would had been occupied during the flight, that should rule out hijacking or suicide possible cause.
If you mean the cockpit jump seats must have been occupied, not all 73’s come with the second
JS. 5 cabin crew and 2 pilots, might have simply meant that 2 cabin crew were in the CC jump seats.
Last time I saw a flight track like that and a vertical dive to the end, was the Alaska Airlines loss of Stab.