wouldn t worry about altitude he would worry about attitude how stable is his airplane in terms of his horizon. what do you make jeff? well airbuses are built with something called envelope protection. when you re flying them around normally the plane will not let you put it into a situation beyond its flight envelope or to stall, for instance. you can get into situations this happened with air france 447 where if the sensors get clogged for instance and the computer isn t able to make sense of what it s doing it will turn itself off and hand itself over to the pilot. in a normal situation the flight computer will not let you do something that s outside of the envelope. bear in mind however, first of all i don t know if this is true that this would put you beyond the envelope. we don t know if the source of the data is reliable. and i m reminded of mh-370. we had these reports that the