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Old 2nd Jan 2015, 00:37
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The only fact we can reliably work on at present is that two, supposedly highly experienced pilots, wasted a full 38,000 of height in a perfectly good aircraft, and flew into the sea after an updraught upset. On that basis, the comparison with AF447 is inescapable.
We can't even work on that. Only evidence of such is what the media has reported, and much of that (donned life jackets, Airbus-shaped shadow on ocean floor, etc) have been disavowed by officials. We won't know squat until the FDR is retrieved and its data made public.

That image showing the flight at FL363 and 353 knots GS? What a coinkydink someone had a camera pointed at the screen at the exact right moment...

All we really know is the plane didn't reach its destination, some fishermen saw an airplane descending to the water and heard it hit, and that some bodies ID'd to have been on board, along with wreckage consistent with an Air Asia A320, have been found.

All that said, yes, it looks a helluva lot like AFR447. But we don't know that as a certainty.
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