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Is that scenario not contradicted by ACARS having been disabled prior to the last words spoken to ATC?
not really. acars system failure alone is not an emergency so they sounded normal without reporting it to ATC - they might wanted to first sort out why that happend , in the next minute things became catastrophic and not time to report ynything more.
@mods : am i blind or was my post with a non james bond explanation deleted ?