There's a history of what planes have done as a result of inflight fires. This one has not conformed to any of them. Weren't they closest to Singapore when contact was lost? Why would they not have continued on to there instead of heading BACK?
Unless the pilots were caught unaware, not very good (ie kinda stupid), and extremely unlucky to lose navigation and comms, but lucky enough not to lose flight controls or autopilot...it just stretches credulity to think a simple cargo fire resulted in this bizarre outcome. Now if they'd crashed in the South China Sea, sure. But SW of Australia??
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