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Originally Posted by Buck
The Payne Stewart theory doesn't really explain why the plane wasn't picked up on radar or why their transponders (or whatever they're called) just stopped working.
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If there was either a rapid depressurization or a slow one, the flight crew and passengers may have been incapacitated. if the autopilot was not active at the time, the plane could simply have nosed into the ocean. In the middle of the ocean there is no radar. The lack of debris field is confusing, especially considering the Gulf is only a max of about 240ft deep at the deepest. But it's very difficult to see anything at sea, so unless there is a large debris field it could take a while for anything to be stumbled upon.