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speed. my colleagues, a-320 check captains, tell me at that altitude at the aircraft s weight that speed is not enough to sustain flight. they believe it s possible if this screen grab is correct that this would indicate an aerodynamic stall, a high-altitude upset similar to what we saw with air france 447. richard, i know you want to get in there. what is a typical procedure for a pilot to gain air speed? i just wanted to come up to geoffrey if i may, don. go ahead. geoffrey with that reduction in speed and bearing in mind the 320 s alpha protection and envelope protections that it has, that would suggest an extraneous incident that bled off the speed because obviously if the pilot was misflying the aircraft then the protections would come into play if it was in normal law. indeed.
certainly a tiny, tiny possibility of a catastrophic failure, but most likely some person was responsible for this disappearance. yeah, because, you know, the question just keeps on coming up, if it was mechanical, what could it have been that they did not have enough time to communicate something was wrong with the plane? so to everyone else s point, things just don t add up, but, again, we really don t know. hard to believe. five weeks, jeffregeoffrey. let s go back to perth. geoffrey, what s your assessment? is it almost certainly a criminal act? look, indeed, wolf. it is absolutely no question from all the people i ve talked to. a number of check captains, 777 check captains. there s one other element to this, one other element. that is, could this have been a hijacking gone wrong and could those hijackers have smuggled themselves onboard and hidden in the main equipment bay underneath the galley, through a trap door, just behind the cockpit? because you can disconnect the