>then the perpetrators screwed up somehow which is why no one now wants to take credit for the affair
There is no hard evidence for it, but a suicidal pilot who wanted to make sure his insurance paid out would also explain this. Suicidal and psychopathic.
Except psychopaths and suicides are on opposite sides of the spectrum. You do have edge cases where psychopaths choose suicide over being caught, ie Hitler. But to commit just suicide there literally thousands of easier ways to do it. You don't even have to leave home to do it.
They're not talking about "just suicide", they're talking about insurance fraud involving suicide and also the deaths of hundreds of innocent people. To commit to that plan, you would definitely need to be some form of conscienceless freak.
What exactly are you hypothesizing? That the pilot faked a hijacking because insurance would pay out in event of a hijacking? Would there not be an easier way for a pilot to purposefully crash that would also be coveraged by insurance?
>What exactly are you hypothesizing? That the pilot faked a hijacking because insurance would pay out in event of a hijacking?
Yes. Apart from insurance, someone might care about their image, even after death, so making a deliberate mistake and causing an accident, this might not be acceptable for them.
>Would there not be an easier way for a pilot to purposefully crash that would also be covered by insurance?
Maybe, but could it be done without leaving evidence on the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder?
One scenario that the current limited data fits, is an attempt to hide the evidence in deep ocean, far from the search area.
There is no hard evidence for it, but a suicidal pilot who wanted to make sure his insurance paid out would also explain this. Suicidal and psychopathic.
It's horrific, but it has happened twice before.