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Old 03-24-2015, 09:04 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Ducay View Post
6 minutes is a long time. Their descent profile was very close to normal descent rates for that airframe, so that in itself isn't considered outside the norm. What precipitated that descent is the real question.
Just reading the links, they speculated that the descent at that rate was quite possibly controlled by the pilot... possibly to look for a place to land.

If the debris field is as spread out as they are saying, it almost sounds like they may have been flying low to try and find a flat area to make an emergency landing, but clipped a mountain and then ripped apart.

Just complete speculation on my part.
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