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Re:MH370: A different point of view by tom_morrow on Monday March 17, 2014 @09:59AM (#7415001)
one theory is that the aircraft was still climbing towards cruise altitude when all control was lost.

a stall, a recovery, and a randomly meandering flight followed.

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Re:MH370: A different point of view by TillE on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:40AM (#7415236)
It wasn't random, though. It was flying to waypoints.
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Re:MH370: A different point of view by tom_morrow on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:17AM (#7415517)
maybe.

adjectives used of the radar data: "inaccurate", "undisclosed".

adjectives used of the flight path: "erratic", "uneven", "zigzagging".

waypoints are thick as thieves, the odds of a flock of birds not hitting three of them are small.

...plus hitting exactly those waypoints makes no sense: the middle zig should have been skipped as superfluous.

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Re:MH370: A different point of view by dhimes on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @08:21AM (#7428100)
waypoints are thick as thieves, the odds of a flock of birds not hitting three of them are small.

Really? On a plane? On my boat they're typically within a few meters.

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