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Old Dec 4, 2012 | 12:51 pm
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Interesting that (according to FlightAware) they actually dropped from FL410 to FL350 in the ~6 minutes before they turned around and headed for MSY, and then continued the descent down to FL290 after the turn.

Makes it looks like they knew there was a problem 6 minutes before they turned.
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