On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:16:12 -0400, nobody-here@_INVALID_.org wrote:   
      
   >The progressive shedding of an (among other places) e&e fire due to   
   >early red-eye overloads would jive with the losses preceding the final   
   >com failure and they may not have been aware of anything up to that very   
   >point. IF the climb to 450 did in fact happen and was not false data it   
   >may have been a desperate improvised attempt to get on top of a far more   
   >severe situation than anything they had been prepared for. It may also   
   >have been an uncomanded malfunction, their first sign of grave trouble.   
   >The descent to 230 should also seem familiar to many pilots, there are   
   >too many pieces that just plain fit. They may have gotten to Langkawi   
   >but were by then either incapacitated or unable to do much else.   
      
   This FL450/230 issue seems to be based on _primary_ radar   
   measurements.   
      
   For a long range primary radar tracking an object very close to the   
   horizon, it is very hard to get reliable altitude measurements, thus I   
   would be very suspect to any real altitude changes.   
      
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