Originally Posted by
Cool banana
China Eastern pilots’ policy is both crews must be seated 20 mins prior to TOD. This was well past that point.
This is an 6 year old aircraft, but from the data available it looks like a catastrophic failure or a midair collision with a military aircraft/drone
the thought occurred to me as well, something akin to the GOL mid-air - although the GOL 73 broke up at some point on the way down iirc.