Originally Posted by
Lynn49
It's just a thought, but I think that something happened to the plane incapacitating the passengers, perhaps decompression, and the pilot knew he couldn't land since he'd be a victim himself. I think he deliberately turned the plane away from the very populated China and other countries in the north, pointed the plane to the south, knowing it would eventually hit the sea thereby saving hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives. I think the pilot was more hero than villain...I wish we knew...