Originally posted by swissair
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Just to give you an alternative to your theory about terrorists causing the crash of AF447, this rather wild speculation is about as good;
What if the crash was a result of a collision causing at least one of the aircraft to become uncontrollable (as with the Embraer and the "Sol" Boeing 737 over Amazon)? There is reason to believe that some non-announced air traffic could be going across between the South America northeast corner and the Africa north west corner, transporting high value illegal goods. Such a flight would not be announcing itself (transponder off, low altitude when within radar coverage near each coast, then climbing to high altitude to fly economically enough to actually make it across). If the transponder was switched off, the TCAS would be inoperative, and not warn other oncoming aircraft of the impending meeting. Whoever involved in such flights would never admit to anything.
This is probably about as far-fetched as a terrorist bombing given the evidence analysed so far.
I line up with everyone else wishing for the CVR and FDR to be recovered. That would provide some real opportunity to build a scenario and understand the accident.
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