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by sschueller 1658 days ago
I hope we can still get data out of the black boxes if they can be found. It's important to know if this was a technical issue or some other cause. Although I don't know if Boeing could handle another technical fault if it turns out it was another "known" issue.
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I thought it was pretty clear the pilot had some pretty major issues.

- Flight simulator data from his home computer matched pretty closely the doomed plane took when it went off course (covered up by ATSB of course).

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-flew-sui...

- His wife and kids had just moved out, marriage was in trouble?

- Some kind of call just before flight from a number purchased with fake ID docs?

The recorders only kept the last couple of hours as far as I remember and it flew for many hours after going off course.. there's probably nothing interesting on them sadly