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Originally Posted by Matth
Hmm, drops off the radar with no mayday.
If it wasn't a bomb, then it was an equally rapid total system or structural failure:
The suspects:
1. Bomb
2. Catastrophic and total failure
3. Pilot suicide
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4. Electronics failure with caused loss of instruments and lights, and as it was at night and at sea flew in to the sea, (it has been recorded that disorientation can happen at night and pilots don't fly straight and level)
5. Maintenance not carried out correctly, (some aircraft are not maintained to the best standards, and several are banned from European airspace).
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Originally Posted by Pierre
If you have ever watched Aircrash Investigation, and I have watched everyone, I find it fascinating. You would know there are far more reasons than that.
The most common cause being pilot error. In so far as pilot incorrectly responding to a certain situation, such as a systems malfunction.
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The trouble is in any situation outside normal flight, they have a check-list book they go through and this can take time.
That the Hudson he followed the book, the procedure to ditch was 6 pages long, he only got to the top of page 3, page 6 had a vent switch to close (which would stop sea water entering the airplane) but didn't have time.