Still don’t think it was the pilots.
Still standing on my limb :)
I suspect there was a fight in the cockpit though.
I also think it was shot down. It strikes me that the Malaysian government seems totally uncoordinated, and very guarded, about what they are releasing. This often happens when lies are not yet coordinated.
I suspect it was hijacked, the two friendly Malaysian pilots killed or incapacitated with the rest of the flight crew and passengers, and then once some government discovered what was happening, they nailed that sucker with a A2A missile.
I would guess after seeing a rapid ascent to 45000 ft+, they figured all the passengers were dead anyway, may as well take it out.
” It strikes me that the Malaysian government seems totally uncoordinated, and very guarded, about what they are releasing. This often happens when lies are not yet coordinated.”
It also happens when you’ve got an unsophisticated third-world-level government that gets blindsided by a crisis it is not prepared to handle, and doesn’t want to look bad on the world stage.