The crash has a few things in common with the disappearance of MH370 one year ago:
- no distress signal,
- unresponsive crew,
- no indication of foul play,
- seemingly sensible pilots.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's "best fit" theory for MH370's disappearance is gradual hypoxia, which is a pretty lousy fit as the plane was still airborne 6 hours and 58 minutes after last transponder contact. So they're saying both pilots remained unconscious during the remaining 7 hours of the flight without waking up. Some even think the plane was flying very low for some time, which would rule out unconsciousness from oxygen deprivation.
Curiously the believed MH370 flight path is nearly exactly opposite the planned route.
At least plane-wide hypoxia is ruled out for 4U 9525. What else? The possibility of cyber crime is unlikely in the case of MH370 and near impossible in the case of 4U 9525.
But did they ever consider hysteria (whatever that might be)? Or possibly mass hysteria in the case of MH370. Just read for yourselves, in some of these events thousands of people go ballistic!
Is it plausible that hysteria caused this? I think so. To me it actually sounds more plausible than a man rehabilitated from a previous depression some years back awaiting impending doom for 10 minutes without uttering a single word as his colleague and flight control tries to get him to respond.
My theory is easily refuted in the next few days if German police finds Herr Lubitz' poetry with a death wish or fanatical religious writings. But if not I unfortunately expect crashes to become more commonplace, and disappearances too.
Mass hysteria in different forms is slowly growing in this world of ours, no question about that. The question is what to do about it. I think I have a clue. Do you?
