The press is now interested by the details of the medical prescriptions that the Copilot was collecting.
One that was cited is the benzodiazepine that is known for its increased risk of hypoxia at altitude.
With benzodiazepines, if AMS is not clearly excluded, there is a theoretical risk of worsening AMS and
hypoxia especially if a higher dose of Temazepam is use (greater than 15mg) . However to date there
are few if any studies describing the exact effects of high doses of benzodiazepine at altitude, but
common sense and experience suggest higher doses are inadvisable at altitude and in any doses
where AMS is clearly documented.
We heard also today about traces of a rather strange and convenient web search on his Tablet just week prior the incident. He seems in particular to have been interested by how the door locking mechanism of the plane he was regularly flying use to work.
Really surprising. And wasn’t he supposed to own at least the pilot manual ?
Regarding the recovered cellphone video, it does not have to have be sourced physically from a cell phone memory. Military Monitoring activity involves routinely aircraft flying above zone to intercept communications.
The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes that mimic cellphone towers.
The dedicated aircraft in Fr Air Force are the C160 Gabriel (sighted at Montpelier on the beginning of March) and (to be dully assessed) the C-135FR such as the one reported overflying the zone for hours that day.
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