Confirmed here, you may just be picking up a typo: "There are reports around in the last hour or so, claiming new information that the plane dropped <to> an al

Confirmed here, you may just be picking up a typo: "There are reports around in the last hour or so, claiming new information that the plane dropped <to> an altitude 5000 feet" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/mh370-contact-missing-plane-communications-disabled http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/mh370-contact-m...