No distress call
There was no distress call, but reports this morning state that because the a/c descended from 38,000 to 6.000 feet in 8 minutes, French ATC issued the distress alert when the a/c disappeared off their radar at that altitude and could not be contacted. Oddly there was no radio communication from the a/c during that descent, suggesting that radio failed and/or that crew were incapacitated in some way.
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Philip
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