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wizele;
A loophole allows him to enter Bordeaux -- which lies several hundred kilometers closer than Paris -- as the fictitious destination for his fuel calculations. "Major deviation would therefore no longer have been possible anymore," says Gerhard Hüttig
Please take the time to read through this thread for some information on your point.
The "shortage of fuel" and inability to execute a diversion around weather due to a shortage of fuel is nonsense and has been dealt with by those who do airline flying for a living.
Characterizing standard flight planning techniques as a "loophole" is incorrect and misleads readers who may not know any better. It is a statement made in ignorance of how airline flight planning is done.
There are those in the world who make money by sensationalizing accidents at the expense of the victims and their families. They do not appear to be interested in finding out what happened or telling readers something new about the accident.
That's what Der Spiegel says ("strong turbulence" thick ice crystals etc..). You imply we (still?) can't know, I assume.
In my view, Der Spiegel is the last source of information someone should read to get accurate, reliable information on aviation accidents.
We cannot know, in a way that explains the accident, what happened because the flight data recorders have not been located. The data recorders are the best source of information which can tell us what happened and even then we may not know all the details.
All else is pure speculation; anything offered by public media cannot be taken seriously.