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Originally Posted by Nedusa

but surely Auto cockpit computer or not, the pilots and crew and passengers would have felt the plane descending and wondered why ?

So the Pilots would have disengaged this computer and flown the plane manually and they would have reported the fault straight away.

Well we don't know so its pure conjecture, but all it would need is for some catastrophic event in the cockpit that took out the 2 pilots, the time it took to decend is just in relation to the cockpit controls at the time of the event.

I'm actually hoping that the whole plane was knocked out and that the passengers knew nothing about it as an 8 minute decent with everyone aware is just terrible.

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Well we don't know so its pure conjecture, but all it would need is for some catastrophic event in the cockpit that took out the 2 pilots, the time it took to decend is just in relation to the cockpit controls at the time of the event.

I'm actually hoping that the whole plane was knocked out and that the passengers knew nothing about it as an 8 minute decent with everyone aware is just terrible.

I heard a report yesterday from some hikers who were up in the Mountains near to where the plane came down. they reported hearing a strong rumbling sound a bit like thunder and then about 8-10 mins later another louder rumble which could have been the plane crashing.

so what was the first sound they heard ? could it be an explosion of some kind or catastrophic engine failure which would explain why the plane descended.

I hope they can accurately piece together these events and understand what actually happened to cause this tragedy.