re: #108 thedopefishlives

NO!!! SAY IT’S TERRORISM OR WE WILL KEEEL YOUUUUU!!!

So, here’s my speculations. There’s a fire in the toilet, with lots of smoke. Pilot executes emergency descent, while turning to port (west) to reach nearest land mass. Then fire breaks out in the avionics, and all hell breaks loose — maybe the flight crew is overcome with smoke or has to put out fires, or maybe the flight controls no longer respond. That could explain the helical descent path. Plane straightens into the new path toward landing in Greece, but something still goes catastrophically wrong at 10,000 ft and the plane explodes.

The BBC noted that the same plane had experienced engine problems in 2013, which required an unscheduled landing.