[stlnative]

The New York Times, quoting American officials and others familiar with the investigation, said radar signals recorded by the Malaysian military appear to show the airliner climbing to 45,000 feet (about 13,700 meters), higher than a Boeing 777's approved limit, soon after it disappeared from civilian radar, and making a sharp turn to the west. The radar track then shows the plane descending unevenly to an altitude of 23,000 feet (7,000 meters), below normal cruising levels, before rising again and flying northwest over the Strait of Malacca toward the Indian Ocean, the Times reported.

If true... then this sounds like the planes pilots were not flying it at this point.

[Sarah Barracuda]

What I want to know is this whole “Payne Stewart” theory, can this plane, with everyone on board dying from hypoxia, still fly, for five hours, and make those weird altitudes, and of course making turn after turn after turn.