They said on Channel 4 news this evening that the flight recorder only captures the final 30 minutes of flight deck dialogue, so **** all point looking for that as the stuff of interest will have happened seven hours earlier.
If this is what happened - or something broadly similar - and so far as theories go it is as plausible as any other at the moment, how do you suppose he incapacitated the co-pilot, whom I sure didn't intend to die that day? A fight on the flight deck? Or maybe he locked him in the main passenger...
Breaking News on the BBC this morning:
The communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak has said.
The new evidence, based on satellite and radar tracking of the plane, is "consistent with the deliberate...
For me, this is exactly the line that the authorities should be taking, and using to set the agenda. Unfortunatley, their complete ****-wittedness and tendency to be blown by events, non-events, claims and couter-claims is undermining confidence in their ability to resolve this.
They're...
Regardless of what may or may not have happened to this plane, the whole management by the local authorities is a ****ing shambles. They seem utterly clueless with no real strategy in place to coordinate or manage any aspect of this event.
Latest cockpit transmission, just released, is of first officer talking to senior cabin attendant on flight deck, moments before plane disappeared:
"Go on then luv, you can have a drive."
:shrug:
I would have thought a far more likely explanation is a terrorist bomb on board, linked to the organisation behind recent terrorist attacks at Kunming railway station and Tiananamn Square.