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How Flight 370 Could Have Become a Zombie

Mystery Trip

Damage to the electronic nerve center might have left the airplane brain-dead but physically capable of flying for hours on autopilot until it ran out of fuel.

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Consider this one statement about Flight MH370: It flew until it ran out of gas.

On its own that’s a pretty remarkable image. The whole story of this flight begins to look different if you begin at the end, not the beginning.

The end is alarmingly simple and final.

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