Originally Posted by
WideScreen
With only one person in the Cockpit, a suicide mission would not have had a successful (!) recovery halfway down to the ground.
Partial recovery or a glitch in pressure data implying a temporary climb?
My thoughts are it was plummeting, and the FR data shows a drop in pressure rather than a physical climb. It's a long time since I did any altimetry but isn't the data fed by a static vent? Orient the aircraft body so that vent is in a low pressure air-flow (rolling and falling) and you get the apparent increase in altitude. ???