My problem with it being in the ocean is, why go to such extreme measures to dodge radar and fly the route it did? Just doesn't make sense to me.
I understood from the last press conference with Angus Houston, he indicated that China is fully cooperating and is part of the team of searchers. He didn't seem to indicate that China was rogue in the search.
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370 - FINAL ESTIMATED FLIGHT ROUTE
KUALA LUMPUR (WMKK) TO KONARAK AIRPORT, CHAH BAHAR, IRAN (OIZC)
TIME: 16:41 UTC - 00:11 UTC
DURATION: 7 HR 30 MIN
DISTANCE: 3122 nm (3593 mi) *
AVE. SPEED: 416 KTS
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES FLIGHT UAE343 - FLIGHT DATA
KUALA LUMPUR (WMKK) TO DUBAI (OMDB)
TIME: 17:30 UTC - 00:35 UTC
DURATION: 7 HR 5 MIN
DISTANCE: 3001 nm (3453 mi)
AVE. SPEED: 425 KTS
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Wow! Thanks so much. A self made man in every sense. I am so glad his dreams came true and we have the opportunity to know him. I hope to see him out of the simulator an at the desk as the expert he is!
Good post! I see Wise remains skeptical and I'm glad someone is
I have also been wondering how many miles and fuel that big curve around to Avoid Indonesia adds to the flight? Or is my sense of it off...
Piggy back theory is low on my list of possibilities.
Wasn't it debunked by the experts a couple of weeks into the disappearance?
MH370 would have to have shadowed the UAE flight at the same speed the entire time. Plus, wouldn't the UAE flight have noticed a plane shadowing it? Obviously not on radar, but out a window, possibly?
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Retired Air Chief Angus Houston will address media shortly with an update on the search for missing flight #MH370 pic.twitter.com/zaVLCh7TNQ
Jeff Wise is following the blog of (NASA, etc) space scientist Duncan Steel, and I think Duncan covered this very recently (but after Mr. Wise's reporting).
It's a great analysis, so I suggest everyone head over to duncansteel.com to watch this guy work. He rocks
Here is the summarized relevant info to what you noticed, though:
From 'Information Pertaining to the
Search for MH370
Duncan Steel, 2014 April 06.
duncansteel.com '
And one of his awesome graphics to see what this means (as well as where the other limiting ping rings go and what time their pings were):
http://www.duncansteel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/x_3D_4.png
And below is that big ole graphic attached for a little version for us at WS. You won't get to see the times/lines clearly probably, so check out the big version at the link above.
lease:let it be something!
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His name is great!
(A commenter) Robert P and Duncan seem to be focusing on heavy autopilot analyses. I'm not so sure that I think autopilot was used exclusively until much later in the flight. Of course, you'd check that first if doing the calculations they are, because then you have more knowns!
I do kinda have a feeling that the plane was human-piloted around the Indonesia situation, which is also where the pings got odd in their timing. It's also where a human may well fly around Indonesia for whatever reason (safety of those on the ground? Trying to evade radar? Knew the holes in radar if those exist?).
OTOH, that Robert P that I mentioned has an incredibly interesting 'autopilot-related' comment at "2014/04/06 at 5:37 PM" at the comment thread here:
http://www.duncansteel.com/archives/551#comments
I don't think we can quote comments even from science-y blogs like Dr Steel's. But it is interesting! So I think I still believe it could have been autopilot then (wait till his idea gets put through the modelling software). I wish I knew more about aviation, but his comment should make great sense to those who do, lol![]()
do you guys notice that whenever someone on the cnn panel request the flight sim guys to try something, they either say "no we can't do that" or "sure", then they modify the instructions to try something different than the request?
I also like his idea of "recreating" it with the same configurations of MH370. This may lead to it, if it can be re-created with a 777 and weight leaving KL.
reports here are just saying press conference is just an update on search. Sadly![]()
:facepalm:
Maybe they should just think about sending out written statements updating on what ships are going out where, etc..