Originally Posted by
talkpedlar
Just my two centsworth.. but if I was planning a suicide run I would certainly choose to start my deviation from flight-plan route at the point of ATC frequency changeover... you've said 'bye to the previous centre and the next one will probably wait an age before alarm bells ring... As I said, just MHO.. but seemingly what happened here.
TP
The catastrophic event right at the ATC handover point of time, the following weird track of the aircraft (with the FMC route altered beforehand), the altitude changes (up, down, up again) and the final course set to one of the most remote areas of this world where recovery of bodies, wreckage and CVR/FDR are nearly impossible.
I don't know. All of this could have a trivial and hardly sensational explanation that in hindsight will perfectly fit the facts we know at the moment, but I have a strange feeling about it. Something just doesn't look right.