SaturnV wrote:
Is this a hint there was only one pilot in the cockpit?
This is intriguing, as, if I remember correctly (no time to check at the moment) just a few pages ago, someone (Lemurian?) suggested that the changeover time could have been at 2:10.
If I remember correctly:
- the Captain's body was recovered in 2009.
- one body was recovered on about 5 May 2011 reportedly still strapped into a seat
- a second body was recovered the next day, also reportedly strapped into a seat
If they were trying to confirm location of all pilots, it would make sense for them to have tried to identify and recover the two remaining pilots and to recover all 4 seats up front, shown in the pic the PJ2 recently posted (post #1482).
What we don't know (assuming both bodies recently recovered were indeed still strapped in, and are indeed the pilots), is which seats they were still strapped into.
Is there a candidate seat in the rest area (I also seem to recall that the flight was full, suggesting we could rule out them being in a revenue seat in the cabin?).
It would be unfortunate if the initial significant upset coincided with changeover, slammed the door, only one pilot was up front, and no-one else could get in because of these "security measures" or even for no other reason that he was trying to aviate alone with everything FUBAR. To add to all other problems that have been discussed for so long.
I expect this might be quite apparent on first listening to the CVR, hence the speed this "leak" seems to have become apparent?
(By the way, it occurred to me recently: there must be something like easily 500+ accumulated
years of flying experience represented in posts on the last 20 pages or so... From a layman my reaction is: Wow...)