Originally Posted by
Passenger 389
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3. The "to preserve a record" scenario admittedly is less likely than "to coverup what was going to be said thereafter" scenario.
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What makes no sense was that the CB was pulled to cover up some discussion, as that would imply that they were planning to crash and therefore have the CVR reviewed. There was some dumb thinking at the pointy end of this flight, but not to the extent of planning to crash and thinking ahead to deceive the accident investigation.