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Hypoxia, would the autopilot revert back to the original destination? >> it could be anybody's guess. you go with my fire scenario or mile's scenario with hypoxia, it depends upon how degraded the autopilot system was. if it managed to maintain altitude and course, whatever was put into the plane management computer, whether it's kuala lumpur or some other alternate airport, the fmc is programmed to go to that destination. if it has nothing else to go to, it'll maintain a heading. and continue on that heading. >> that's the question. so if they were -- so were they not on autopilot at that poi...
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