According to a tweet from Flightradar24, approximately one hour into the flight, the aircraft was in cruise flight at 29,100 feet when it abruptly lost altitude, entering a steep descent. The aircraft appeared to recover briefly at approximately 8,000 feet, then it reentered dive.

Some sources claim the sudden nose-dive was intentional because of manual crew input, but to me it sounds like the crew reacted to something extremely strange happening and tried to correct it (“let’s click the AUTO button and get some rest. Oh shit.”), especially since the aircraft “appeared to recover briefly at approx. 8,000 feet”. Sounds a lot like all the other Boeing 737-x crashes where the pilots were surprised by the sudden nosedive, wrestled manual control back, only for the systems to kick in again into a dive.

I post this not as news, but as a point of interest for me personally.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOPM
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    8 months ago

    Lemmy has got me seriously scared, you’re a bunch of absolute muppets.

    Edit: This is literally anythinggoes, nobody gets banned for speaking their mind here.

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        8 months ago

        Well maybe you could leave if you don’t like it, it’s not like I invited you here you absolute mongoloid. Are you all teenagers in here? Does your mom know you’re on the internet?

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          8 months ago

          You did invite me, you posted publicly on a public forum. As a member of the public I found it pretty inviting.

          It’s not my fault that you are saying verifiably untrue statement. That you don’t understand statistics or engineering. Or when this is pointed out to you all you have left is petty insults and anger.

          Remember freedom of speech does not mean freedom from being told you are wrong.