> However, it’s all via an Authenticator app on the phone.

Why not save the secret on your laptop and generate the OTP on your laptop?

I use MS Authenticator for work too. It doesn't do standard TOTP, at least not for Entra. The QR codes don't contain the secret. IDK that anyone has been able to exfiltrate a secret and generate codes with a third party app.

I personally use an Android emulator on my laptop, which achieves the same goal. It saves and restores state automatically for quick startup.

I'm intently following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_171

Any discussion about causes is going to be pure speculation right now. It's too early. But the Wiki article is pretty good to get an overview. Some interesting discussion on its talk page too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Air_India_Flight_171

Wikipedia is far from perfect, but in situations like this it is kind of incredible how well it can work