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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I tend to think fire myself, pilots shut down the circuits one by one to eliminate the source, maybe they had a cockpit full of smoke but no actual fire, that would be the lack of communication, dropped it down fast and turned looking for an airport, they may have lost track of sequences in the panic and forgot to turn comms back on as they were trying to control things.
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CRM = crew resource management. The first part of your theory suggests great CRM, troubleshooting a potential fire by nuking systems that may be the cause... but what about the part where they climbed back up to altitude and headed for the South Pole, i.e. in a course that would take them as far as possible from an airfield?
Why would a seemingly competent crew inexplicably fly toward nothing without there having been a pressurization malfunction causing hypoxia, or foul play?
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
pilot suicide... you get the process over quickly and generally with alot more fanfare.
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Unless you want people to think it wasn't pilot suicide. Just as we are debating now.