Hi,
Originally Posted by john_tullamarine
However, there is the concurrent requirement that the aircraft be somewhere such that the risk were pertinent. Commencing the sequence at normal airline cruising level is a little out of left field for CFIT.
Certainly, and once the full chain of events leading to this final step would be resolved, I'm also sure that this accident won't be qualified as such. This description was limited to its very last minute(s).
In fact, beside
suspecting that ice crystals at cruise level could have been much more a factor than computers, I'm still clueless about how she finally ended like that.#
[edit: and now, thank you John, I finally understand grizzled's point about my use of CFIT term!... Well, sometime, I'm very slow]