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By the way, how exactly do you lock a door on that plane?
The report does not say anything about sounds of the copilot getting up and locking the door.
If you need to get out to lock/unlock it, then that suggests medical issues or confusion of some sort just as easily as suicide.
Then, what if we assume that the descent and locked door are two separate issues?
The pilot did something, and screwed up by setting the altitude too low or enabling the descent at all.
And the door was locked for some other reason, so the whole "flying into the mountains" thing was not expected by the pilot.
A prank, a bribe from a passenger for flying closer to the mountains.
Is there any plausible explanation under that kind of an assumption?
I.e. there was a case when the pilot let his kids steer, and didn't notice when they turned the autopilot partially off. By the time everyone figured out what was going on it was already too late to pull the plane out of a collision course.
Could some unrelated accident like that have combined with the unnoticed descent?
The report does not say anything about sounds of the copilot getting up and locking the door.
If you need to get out to lock/unlock it, then that suggests medical issues or confusion of some sort just as easily as suicide.
Then, what if we assume that the descent and locked door are two separate issues?
The pilot did something, and screwed up by setting the altitude too low or enabling the descent at all.
And the door was locked for some other reason, so the whole "flying into the mountains" thing was not expected by the pilot.
A prank, a bribe from a passenger for flying closer to the mountains.
Is there any plausible explanation under that kind of an assumption?
I.e. there was a case when the pilot let his kids steer, and didn't notice when they turned the autopilot partially off. By the time everyone figured out what was going on it was already too late to pull the plane out of a collision course.
Could some unrelated accident like that have combined with the unnoticed descent?