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Originally Posted by Halcyon
What do you think happened after all these years?
There is still no clear story in all this.
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There is.
I've watched several programmes that have investigated it in detail.
It was pilot suicide.
He deliberately flew between ATC zones, The initial ATC said goodbye and believed to have handed him off to the next ATC, but flew between zones and then turned off his transponder.
He then set a course for somewhere in the indian ocean. It's obviously unclear what he did with the passengers but it is thought he asphyxiated them.
It's also unclear if he continued to fly the aircraft to a controlled landing on the ocean or whether he set the autopilot on a controlled descent to a low altitude until the plane ran out of fuel and asphyxiated himself with the passengers.
They found a simulator in his house where he had done several similar flights and he had personal family issues.
He planned it so it would be a mystery and that it would never be found.
What needs to be done is to set of some AUVs in the zone where people think it most likely to be and let them search continuously. You don't need a massive support vessel and these things can run on their own for months at a time.