[eleni121]

Toronto was easily explainable: the weather.

Cypriot flight: remains bizarre and perplexing

[Gunrunner2]

Weather didn't cause the accident, landing long and hot did. . .what is perplexing is why the pilot landed long and hot. . .hmmmm. . .must have been a terrorist in the cockpit.

[r-pogo]

Strange Indeed.

Medical examiner now reports several passenger's alive on impact. This suggests that the pilots also could have been alive on impact and for more than an hour after the problems appear to have started.

What possible situation could have occurred that would render the crew unable to respond to air traffic control radio or take emergency action an hour prior to impact while at the same time passengers were apparently still alive. Obviously depressurization was not fatal over that period of time to all on board.

VERY FISHY

[Rokke]

"Toronto was easily explainable: the weather."

Yeah. You're right. Toronto is easily explainable. It is very common for commercial airliners to drive off the end of runways when it's raining out. Hundreds of rainstorms at airports all around the world at any given moment, and airplanes are sliding into the ditch at every one of them. Forget about the automatic landing systems that allow aircraft like the A340 to safely land in zero visibility with 30 knot crosswinds without a pilot ever touching the controls. Forget about redundant radars and windshear sensors on the aircraft that give the pilots plenty of warning and time to respond to dangerous weather. Forget about the fact that any Air France pilot senior enough to fly a widebody aircraft on transatlantic flights has thousands of hours and years of experience landing in lousy weather. Forget all of that because it makes perfect sense why that airplane crashed in Toronto. There was just some bad weather. Funny we haven't seen an investigation report on that one. Maybe you should get in touch with the investigating team and tell them you've got it all figured out.

Nevermind. I am done trying to explain to you that your ignorance on a topic does not mean that one of the greatest mysteries to hit civil aviation in decades is what caused this 737 to go down. Just be prepared for a bit of a letdown when the investigation is completed and it turns out this accident was nothing more than a tragic result of human made and maintained mechanical systems failing.