Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Likely in Steep Dive Before Crash - WSJ
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Likely in Steep Dive Before Crash
Examination of wing flap debris shows it likely wasn’t extended when plane entered ocean
...As well as physical debris, the report drew on recent analysis by Australian defense scientists of burst frequency signals from Flight 370 to satellites which indicated the aircraft had been descending fast, likely in an automated series of swooping dives called fugoids.
“Additional analysis of the burst frequency offsets associated with the final satellite communications to and from the aircraft is consistent with the aircraft being in a high and increasing rate of descent at the time,” the report said....