I don’t think they’ve recovered the “black boxes”, and I haven’t heard that there were any distress calls, so how are they determining this? Pure speculation?
I don’t know how they’d know about “erroneous speed” unless it was transmitted in another ACARS message that they didn’t tell us about at first. Apparently Airbii “phone home” with a lot of information (see all those fault messages between 0210 and 0214 GMT) but I wonder if either an overspeed or a near-stall is one of them.
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>>I don’t think they’ve recovered the “black boxes”, and I haven’t heard that there were any distress calls, so how are they determining this? Pure speculation?<<
Read the OP — they are basing it on the Computer-to-Computer communications.
I suspect there was no reason for the pilots to call in since there was nothing any airport controller could do for them. Better to keep your craft in the air.
Newer airliners constantly transmit maintenance data and system faults to their maintenance facilities. This is done to reduce repair time and dispatch delays at their destination.
Pure speculation?
No it is ZerO praying to allah it isn’t a bomb.