[Red Badger]

... the idea that the pilot deliberately put it on autopilot is suspicious reporting. MHO

Not if he wanted to kill himself and everyone else as well. ...

[Uncle Chip]

He didn’t have to commit suicide. His brain exploded as he tried to figure out what fixed speed to set the autopilot on so the plane could hit those tricky Inmarsat arcs on an hourly schedule to the hinterlands:

http://www.duncansteel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/V_2D_2.png

[SkyDancer]

Thing is the plane should have been on autopilot all along. My guess he hand flew it into the ocean just like that B767 of Egypt Air off Long Island.

[SkyDancer]

Thing is the plane should have been on autopilot all along. My guess he hand flew it into the ocean just like that B767 of Egypt Air off Long Island. You don’t put it on autopilot if you intend to crash it.