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Really, there are always the unavoidable risks if millions of people's travel depend on hundreds of trained and licensed commercial pilots. There is no sure way to prevent every possible disaster. Best way may be to learn to pilot oneself and buy an airplane (like many frequent posters on this forum ).
yes, a pilot can have a stroke or heart attack, etc. but that's why there are two of them in the cockpit so the plane doesn't go down. Too much of a coincidence that one of them was locked out when some "medical incident" happened... I mean, it's possible but highly unlikely (at least for me). If the other pilot could have gotten back in, he could have saved the plane. He wouldn't have gone to the bathroom if they were have any kind of mechanical problems. What happened to the rumor about a cracked windshield?
The controlled, straight-line descent suggests no one was actively working the controls. The cockpit crew was incapacitated. The crew out of the cockpit could not get back in (Why? Perhaps this airline has a secure cockpit rule. Malfunctioning door? Or something we're yet to find out.).
Occam's razor. Such incapacitations happen. The Greek airliner a decade ago. Payne Stewart.
Intentional downing is certainly a possibility, but the controlled descent and course mitigates somewhat, though not absolutely, against it.
The fact that the names of the pilots haven't been released? Seriously? Are you people really this clueless? The names will get released - they can't not be. So what good could possibly delaying that release by a day or two matter? The obvious answer is that it could not matter. Please. I get it. I know you desperately want to believe this was intentional. But at least make your allegations make a modicum of sense. Stop being controlled by what you want to believe and just see where the evidence takes you. Right now we have some apparent evidence that is not confirmed, and a whole lot of unknowns. We also have tons of precedent (paging Mr. Occam) which suggest a mundane and boring (and not a lurid and exciting, and very pleasing to you, for weird reasons known only to you) explanation.
And now, back to your regularly-scheduled hyperventilating.
If it's intentional, then, given it was to be a short 90-minute flight, how could the (purported) "perp" pilot be sure that there would be a time when the other pilot would definitely leave the cockpit to use toilet at all? He would need some excuse to send him out...
If it's intentional, then, given it was to be a short 90-minute flight, how could the (purported) "perp" pilot be sure that there would be a time when the other pilot would definitely leave the cockpit to use toilet at all? He would need some excuse to send him out...
Didn't matter, maybe he had it planned for a while, and if he didn't go out today to use the bathroom he would in good time on another flight, or he put something in the pilot's water or food to make him use the bathroom.
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