[Cementjungle]

the pilot in the cockpit could have suffered a severe medical emergency

Someone took the plane off autopilot and aimed the plane at the mountain.

[pepsionice]

Oddly, they have yet to release names of pilot and co-pilot.

[USARightSide]

‘________severe medical emergency.’
Back in the 1990’s, flying from Tampa to Los Angeles on Southwest, an announcement came that we were making a medical emergency landing in Georgia. I was seated near the rear, and when the cabin attendant was in my area, I asked him to lean over. I said if the medical emergency person was alone, I would volunteer to sit with them. Cabin attendant did a kind of slow stare at me and walked off.
He came back minutes later, leaned over to me and said - (ready??!):
‘the emergency is the Captain!’ The co-captain was then at the controls, and did he ever book it to an airport!
When we got to L.A., I asked personnel in the airport if they knew about the captain of my plane, and I was told he was passing a kidney stone! Owwwwwww!
If one flies often enough, there must be similar incidents.

[jonascord]

Actually, the black box recording indicates that the co-pilot dialed in a new cruise altitude that was 600 ft below AGL. He then pulled the throttles back to idle, and adjusted allowed airspeed to the maximum never exceed speed.

It was an apparent suicide.