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Could have flown to 12,000 feet? >> this is a key point. cnn has reported that the plane shortly after that good night call, turned fairly rapidly and fairly drastically dropped down to 12,000 feet from 35,000 feet. so taking aside why that might have happened, theres a whole bunch of reasons, at 12,000 feet, that aircraft is burping a -- burning a lot more fuel. they dont even public tables for file -- publish tables for fuel burn at 12,000 feet. so that raises a question about the certainly zo...