Future implications
Why are so many on this thread speculating about the cause of this incident rather than the outcome? If it were a hijacking, what will be done about it if there were a rogue airplane waiting somewhere to be used for an attack?
Will air-corridors be monitored more thoroughly in future, will there be finally telemetry in real time mandatory for airlines rather than old fashioned black boxes, considering all the money spent on retrieving black boxes from the ocean over the last decades?
So what will be the implications for the airline industry?