Author Topic: Malaysia Airlines (Read 123617 times)

K-S-U-Wildcats! · « **Reply #525 on:** March 20, 2014, 03:59:51 PM »

What's the most likely scenario at this point? I gotta think its crazy/suicidal pilot followed by crazy/suicidal hijacker. Can't think of another scenario that's even close.

Transponders deliberately shut off, no communication, deliberately veered off course via guidance computer, and flew until close to when fuel would have run out. That's seems to pretty definitively rule out an accident. Of the two possible "arcs" the one over land is almost impossible to believe, so it turned SW (partially corroborated by radar) towards the wide open Indian Ocean.

But if it's suicide, why not just point nose down? Maybe he just didn't have the guts to do it and just sat there on autopilot for seven hours?

Hope it doesn't take two years to retrieve the black boxes like it did for AF.

mocat · « **Reply #526 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:01:32 PM »

I've heard Emirates is very nice, The1BigWillie

EllRobersonisInnocent · « **Reply #527 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:03:12 PM »

There's more to this story than we'll ever know.

steve dave · « **Reply #528 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:03:24 PM »

I'm still thinking most likely is malfunction/fire causing transponders, etc. to go offline at various times and aircraft to divert and eventually go down. lots of possibilities though. 0% of other stuff if it wasn't an inside (pilot) job though. JMO

steve dave · « **Reply #529 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:06:55 PM »

Quote from: mocat on March 20, 2014, 04:01:32 PM

I've heard Emirates is very nice, The1BigWillie

I've looked at tons of airline porn of Emirates 1st class. Amazing.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #530 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:07:06 PM »

I think we can be fairly certain that both the pilot and co-pilot were involved.

K-S-U-Wildcats! · « **Reply #531 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:16:45 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on March 20, 2014, 04:03:24 PM

I'm still thinking most likely is malfunction/fire causing transponders, etc. to go offline at various times and aircraft to divert and eventually go down. lots of possibilities though. 0% of other stuff if it wasn't an inside (pilot) job though. JMO

The problem with this theory is that it seems extremely unlikely that an accident such as a fire would completely disable communications and transponders while still allowing the plane to fly for seven hours. Not to mention the deliberate turn off course programmed into the computer. That doesn't add up to accident.

CNS · « **Reply #532 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:20:48 PM »

There was a pilot on GMA the other day basically the smoke over taking the crew theory is not on point because all writing has self extinguishing coating and couldn't start such a fire electrically. Mechanically, he didn't say.

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felix rex · « **Reply #533 on:** March 21, 2014, 01:33:50 AM »

Quote from: steve dave on March 20, 2014, 04:06:55 PM

Quote from: mocat on March 20, 2014, 04:01:32 PM
I've heard Emirates is very nice, The1BigWillie

I've looked at tons of airline porn of Emirates 1st class. Amazing.

Plus the safety video is amazing.

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CHONGS · « **Reply #534 on:** March 21, 2014, 09:51:14 AM »

FYI I have plotted out here the antipodes for the Bermuda Triangle....

steve dave · « **Reply #535 on:** March 21, 2014, 10:16:23 AM »

Great white sharks

Stevesie60 · « **Reply #536 on:** March 21, 2014, 10:55:31 AM »

Quote from: steve dave on March 21, 2014, 10:16:23 AM

Great white sharks

Good call, steve dave. I'm changing my theory to this:

Dr Rick Daris · « **Reply #537 on:** March 21, 2014, 11:06:23 AM »

Quote from: Chingon on March 21, 2014, 09:51:14 AM

FYI I have plotted out here the antipodes for the Bermuda Triangle....

upside down sheep

Tobias · « **Reply #538 on:** March 21, 2014, 11:06:51 AM »

pissclams · « **Reply #539 on:** March 21, 2014, 11:09:48 AM »

that red triangle could be an alien spaceship- plausibility unknown but may have had something to do with it

ChiComCat · « **Reply #540 on:** March 22, 2014, 11:35:43 AM »

Now that its combo-fanning season we'll find this sonuvabitch in the next couple days, right? @42, we're going to need maps.

K-S-U-Wildcats! · « **Reply #541 on:** March 22, 2014, 03:39:34 PM »

If we don't find the black boxes before the batteries run out, we have about the same chance of finding them as Amelia Earhart's plane. The search area is massive in a very remote area and there's a chance that debris isn't even floating anymore.

EMAWmeister · « **Reply #542 on:** March 22, 2014, 03:43:06 PM »

Do they not have submarines?

felix rex · « **Reply #543 on:** March 22, 2014, 03:52:40 PM »

I heard that if you lined up the Chinese and marched them into the ocean at an average walking speed 10 abreast, you'd still never run out of Chinese. So, I feel pretty good about tracking this thing down.

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K-S-U-Wildcats! · « **Reply #544 on:** March 22, 2014, 11:47:43 PM »

Unless they find debris, the search area will be several million square miles according to the latest estimates. Even if they find debris, it will have been adrift so long that I'd still guess the search area is at least thousands of square miles, probably bigger.

By comparison, the search area for Air France 447 was narrowed to about 50 miles due to much more promptly discovered debris and more flight data from ACARS. It still took 4 searches over 2 years to find the wreckage.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10712857/Malaysia-Airlines-MH370-Air-France-investigator-warns-of-colossal-task.html

ksupamplemousse · « **Reply #545 on:** March 23, 2014, 12:22:52 AM »

Has anyone checked the coordinates of nicname's phone lately? Any chance it was on the plane?

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #546 on:** March 24, 2014, 08:55:10 AM »

ABC News will air a special report at approximately 9:00 a.m. regarding developments in search for missing plane.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #547 on:** March 24, 2014, 09:05:21 AM »

Quote from: Mrs. Gooch on March 24, 2014, 08:55:10 AM

ABC News will air a special report at approximately 9:00 a.m. regarding developments in search for missing plane.

I expect that you'll keep us up to speed.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #548 on:** March 24, 2014, 09:11:17 AM »

BREAKING: Malaysian Prime Minister says missing plane's last position was in middle of Indian Ocean.

mocat · « **Reply #549 on:** March 24, 2014, 09:12:22 AM »

if we don't find the black box before the 30 days are up, i mean, is that it? we will just never ever know what happened?