Comment Overlooking the obvious (Score 1) 436
The knowledgeable personnel suspected of deliberate action on this flight were the original crew, attempting, without success, to control a crippled aircraft.
Cascading comm failures were malfunctions, cause unknown, that appear deliberate from afar.
Other, as yet undetermined/cause unknown malfunctions degraded crew-controllable aviation, (50%) navigation (95%) communication (100%) capabilities.
Aircraft is in the ocean, location unknown.