Originally Posted by
RYFQB
That dailymail article said something to the effect that the toddler was believed to have been found about 21 miles closer to the airport than the cockpit. Well, the tail came down about a mile before the cockpit, so that leaves 20 miles of flying from toddler to tail. That is about 2,5 minutes of flying, during which FR24 data shows not so much as a hint of anything going on, during which nothing was communicated out of the aircraft, and during which nothing out of the normal was recorded by FDR (if we assume it kept recording up until about when the tail was shredded.) Believable?
I imagine whatever caused a hole large enough to eject a passenger, was violent enough to sever the cables to this FDR/CVR at the same time.
There is an elephant in the room though - the grainy video purporting to show a bombing. The video appears to show an explosion at the rear of the a/c, trails thick black smoke, but continues to fly. If the toddler was ejected at that point 20 miles seems about right.