If you go by the general pilot rules....once encountering some type of serious emergency where you need to take the plane down in altitude....you make a 90-degree right turn...which is what they did. From that point, no radio contact. I think whatever happened....affected the communications capability of the plane (massive failure). I will predict once they get the boxes back and examine things...the crew probably had 60 seconds or less because they impacted on the water, and their comms were wiped out.
I will note...nothing presents any evidence of a terror act yet. Notice no one is bragging for their organization?
If you have an emergency that requires immediate descent and you are over a large expanse of water with the nearest airport directly in front of you, why do you say the general rule is to first make a 90 degree right turn that takes you further away from land and the nearest airport?
Last night an expert on terror address the quietness from the terrorist. He said it was not a good sign That this could be a run through of a new technique. The silence may simply be the terrorist sitting back watching us try to figure out what they had done. He also pointed out a couple of similarities with other plane crashes.
It’s occurence just as plane was being handed off to another country among other things.
There was a report that Isis claimed responsibility.
Of course it is early to ascribe a motivation for the crash.
We will get the usual eyewitnesses who saw the plane on fire, and the eyewitnesses who saw an object from the surface gong up to hit the plane, and the Pilot getting religion and crashing it and just about every theory possible.
As Capt. Obvious would say; This crash needs more time to pass to sort out the facts.
Based on the Malaysian flight disappearance like it or not, CNN will out do FOX in coverage of this disaster. - Tom
“Notice no one is bragging for their organization?”
Uncertainty is the greatest terror.