Based on the interview it was a vacuum pocket, an area with low air pressure where planes can't fly

First post got the video right, got reporter interview the victims. Oh ya the terms most people familiar is turbalence, a plane doesn't just drop like that unless it's related to the air, fact that the plane can pick up back altitude means it's not really a technical issue. If it can't pickup then gg lo

“He said for that brief moment he couldn’t control anything and that’s when the plane did what it did. Then he said the gauges came back and it reengaged, the plane just reengaged to its normal flight pattern. And we had no issues before, no issues after. But just that moment.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/12/australi...-hnk/index.html