The “lightening strike” theory didn’t pass the smell test. #1 I thought airplanes aren’t susceptible to lightening strikes and 2, airline security isn’t the best in South America, #3, I don’t trust the Muzzies.
We shared a waiting area with an Air France flight from Seattle to Paris last year- I was surprised at how many Arabic looking passengers boarded and that a few of their gate staff also appeared Arabic.
I thought if very strange last night when they weren’t doing wall to wall coverage of the search with experts and all. I suspected terrorist because they were being quite.
On one of the pilot message boards they explained how the planes have the capability to dissipate lightening strikes and didn’t think turbulance could take down the plane either.
With the wreckage over miles you have to wonder about if it blew up as there was no May Day.
I agree. The plane was said to be flying through bad turbulence. Planes always do that. And that the thunderheads were extremely large around the plane. As if planes haven’t flown through large thunderheads with lightning before. If they were so vulnerable, there would be a lot more disappearing aircraft over the oceans. I flew from LA to Syndney once and we went over a cyclone near Fiji. It was rough with lightning all around. And that was 25 yrs ago. I would think the technology is much better now.
#4- Transponders don’t just die.