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The debate on that is ever on going. Personally, yes you are right that a pilot could take an aircraft beyond its parameters as in the Hudson River incident, however more and more pilots are trained without a military background and ultimately just follow the guides in emergency cases and do not...

I doubt it was a bomb but terrorism is a possible explanation. Even so a bomb would cause rapid decompression, along with other issues depending on the size and location of it. As the plane seems to have ditched into the sea and not been blown to pieces in mid air, I take it the aircraft was...

Most likely scenarios are a fire on board that got out of hand, a rapid decompression or fuel issue (especially from Beijing). Out if those both the fuel issue and fire would have alerted air traffic a pan would have been declared or if more serious a mayday. Yet it seems to have dropped off the...