Peanut Butter,
4) No significant airspeed/Heading/Roll angle changes.
According to another post:
The last fdr record of the plane reaching an altitude of 346 is consistent with the radar trace:
time/heading/speed/altitude
15:28.31 224/452/347
15:28.43 070/413/347
15:28.55 057/417/369
15:29.07 186/241/351
No significant heading changes? We go from southwest, then to ast-northeast, then to northeast, then south, all in less than 45 econds !
Let's see, a 747 turns from a heading of 224 degrees with a speed of 452 knots to a heading of 70 degrees while slowing to a velocity of 413 knots in a period of 12 seconds at an essentially constant altitude of 34,700 feet. That is a change of heading of either 154 degrees or 206 dergees depending on which way it turned. Then it allegedly gains a little speed (to 417 knots as it turns to a heading of 57 degrees and climbs to 36,900 feet in another 12 seconds.
Hummmm... that is a change of altitude of about 2,200 feet in just 12 seconds or an average rate of climb of 11,000 feet per minute.
There just isn't anyway that a 747 could climb that rapidly coming out of a turn in which it was slowing down. They would have had to have a big rocket booster attached to pull that climb off IMHO.
I have to question this data on the grounds that it appears to violate the laws of physics. And if that isn't enough, how did it lose about 1,800 feet of altitude while slowing to a mere 241 knots while turning at least 129 degrees to get to the final heading speed and altitude in just another 12 seconds.
Something just doesn't look right here.