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Originally Posted by Philip Argy
...and the lack of any distress call is certainly strange.
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No, not at all. First priority is to aviate (i.e. fly the damn plane), second is navigate (somewhere out of harms way would be nice), and then communicate (tell someone it all went pear-shaped).
If they were at low altitude and there was a catastrophic failure, I doubt they would have had time for anything but dealing with the issues at hand.
Captain to First Officer: "Don't worry about the steep dive we're in from 2000'...we need to tell someone we have a control issue".
This generally ain't gonna happen.