Regarding the Phugoid pattern and the GPS spoofing: > Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24.com showed the aircraft making what appeared to be a figure eight

Regarding the Phugoid pattern and the GPS spoofing: > Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24.com showed the aircraft making what appeared to be a figure eight once nearing the airport in Aktau, its altitude moving up and down substantially over the last minutes of the flight before impacting the ground. > FlightRadar24 separately said in an online post that the aircraft had faced “strong GPS jamming,” [1] https://apnews.com/article/azerbaijan-airliner-crash-kazakhstan-aktau-a655474030a347a5a7ddda3a77bbeddc https://apnews.com/article/azerbaijan-airliner-crash-kazakhs... The claim that a landing inside Russia was denied is as of now a rumor. But since the black boxes have been found: > On Dec 27th 2024 Brazil's Investigators have arrived on site, the black box(es) are to be read out and decoded by CENIPA. The voice recording will resolve this. The fact that it was shot is almost a certainty: > On Dec 27th 2024 the airline reported that preliminary data suggest the aircraft was subjected to external physical and technical impacts. [3] https://avherald.com/h?article=521fd4fb&opt=0 https://avherald.com/h?article=521fd4fb&opt=0