Originally Posted by
peekay4
That climb request to FL380 "to avoid weather" has been puzzling me.
This seems to be media speculation rather than fact. The official statement of events says that they dont know why he requested to climb:
According to AirNav, the pilot then asked to take the plane from 32,000ft (9,800m) to 38,000ft but did not explain why he wanted to do so.
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