incapacitated, turned to the left and looked for a runway, the problem is that they flew past it and then proceeded to engage in a series of very precise maneuvers heading over these waypoints in the sky and followed the zigzag pattern that incapacitated pilot could not have done. the other problem is that if they had just become incapacitated and headed towards lan could you wee and headed into the horizon until their fuel ran out, they would have wound up near the horn of africa or something. they would not have ended up in the south indian ocean. so on two counts at least this theory doesn't hold water. >> here's another one here. this is from fs taylor. the fire theory makes no sense.