re: #428 KansasMom

Yes, very scary. Just disappeared? No radar blip, no distress radio signal…nothing?
There’s always some consolation when they analyze the crash and can determine the cause, because then the same problem can be avoided in the future. I hope they are at least able to locate the black box, but it doesn’t sound like they have much to go on location-wise.

There is speculation that it was a lightning strike. Air traffic control did get an “automatic message” saying systems failure has occurred.