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Originally Posted by Road_Warrior
I reckon the first one has nailed it. A documented structural flaw in the aircraft that the FAA knew about and ordered to be fixed.
And the thing is there are so many more examples of aircraft carrying on, along their merry way on autopilot with a flight full of unconscious passengers and crew due to oxygen depletion, and then running out of fuel and falling to the earth.
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If it was a gradual thing & the plane kept flying on for hours - then it would have appeared on someone's radar at some point.... The fact is that it just simply disappeared. The structural flaw/sudden catastrophic event scenario seems the most likely (at least to me).