Something's happened, quick, panic

It's 21:32 on Saturday the 28th and the world is currently populated by experts in depression, avionics and human behaviour.

Yeah, everyone knows what I mean (except you, because there's always one).

First it was a common or garden plane crash, with no discernible cause. So, terrorism, right? Appalling scenes of devastation over a huge area of the Alps and already the speculation is rife, but only on which favour of Muslim is responsible for the atrocity.

Suddenly they find one of the 'black boxes' (which is red, as it turns out) and despite the damage some data is recovered that appears to show some disturbing events; a locked flight cabin door, a pilot returning from (presumably) the toilet and a switching of the autopilot from 38,000 feet to 100 feet. The co-pilot can be heard breathing. The plane crashes.

It turns out that the man suffered from depression, had been treated and, well, after that it was like tossing a handful of mentos into a bucket of full fat cola. Fwoosh!

So, the state of play is now spread amongst Muslim treachery (there is a rumour he's a radical convert), depression and a need to end it all or the result of a love gone sour and a desperate plummet to death as a response. None of these make any sense to me.Friends report no religious changes or behavioural aberrations in the time leading up to the crash, no morbidity because of the relationship problems, but there is evidence of depression. so that must be it. Oh, one out-of-left-field mention also mentioned the requirement for a conversation on abuse as part of the response. This poor man is being accused of terrorism and murder without a shred of evidence outside of the interpretation of a small part of the flight recorders data. The 2nd flight recorder has, as yet, not been found. This would give a more complete picture of the functional state of the aircraft immediately prior to the crash. This would be good.

There are also some actually qualified people from the airline industry who are questioning the rumours by using their actual knowledge of the aircraft and the way it works. There is a suggestion that the cockpit may have depressurised, causing hypoxia in the co-pilot ad for the pane to automatically descend rapidly to a height where people could breathe. Of course the airline industry would say this because conspiracy, big-business, vested interest, blah blah blah.

If it does turn out to be mechanical/component failure I hope those who leapt in with accusations of terrorist madman have the decency to apologise.

We can only wait.