Im seriously at the point that I just have no idea what to make of this plane and where the Malaysians are getting these numbers..remember first they said it went up to 45,000 feet..then down to 23,000 then up again to 35,000 then supposedly it went down as low as 5,000 feet..I have no clue where they are coming up with this information if there is no transponder how else are they getting this radar
It sounds like the same thing happened a few years ago off California. ATC was relying on transponder data and the data was wrong. That aircraft went in with all passengers except there was another aircraft in the vicinity that saw the whole thing.
They were getting overspeed and stall (too slow) warnings plus their altitude was showing good but they were actually in a dive. They ended up stalling the aircraft because they thought they were going too fast and crashed.