I am not sure what can cause a plane to implode at 35,000 feet, besides a major catastrophe.
I hope to get on this quickly, so no other catastrophe's like this happen.
It could be a combination of mechanical failure and pilot error. :moo:
I'm sure they will.
But I'm also not worried. Commercial jets are impeccably crafted and maintained. This is one of the safest planes that exist. The probability of a disaster like this happening the in the future for the exact same reasons this one did (whatever those reasons may be), is about) .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%
Maybe it took time for the objects to float to the surface since I would think it hitting water at that speed would be like driving into a concrete wall. :waitasec:
True. We have to rem,ember, it took five days for the Air France wreckage to be located. It was deep within a trench in the sea.
So what happened to the theory that the plane may have u-turned and traveled in the opposite direction for miles? How could they possibly be so wrong about that? And CNN is reporting that no compilation of the wreckage would be as large as the satellite pics show, so what the heck would be that large?
I now wonder if the wrong info. was released by Malaysia Air so they could scour the more likely locations in private, hopefully to find the wreckage and make "determinations" about the cause before anyone else could.
I don't know what the heck is going on. But I sure hope there aren't people barely hanging onto life holding onto the wing of an airplane desperately waiting for someone to save them. If a plane went down and the pilot was able to do a soft landing on water, there could have been survivors hanging on to plane parts.
Here you have a US naval commander who is on a search vessel, deployed, watching CNN to get info!! That's insane.
Bedtime...prayers for their progress tonight. Hopefully in the morning there will be something known. Ciao for now.
Sadly, the probability that there was a soft landing on water in such a case as this seems like an impossibility to me. The only soft water landing in a jet that size that I've heard of is the Hudson river landing. But that plane was at a vastly lower altitude (around 1,600 ft.) than this one and going much slower. And they had a ton of time to review emergency manuals and radio for help.
Yes, I would think so.
"The behavior of the 27-year-old co-pilot of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has been questioned as it has emerged that he had once invited teenage girls inside the cockpit and smoked during the flight.
The incident took place in 2011 in an international flight.
Jonti Roos, one of the South African tourists who were invited inside the cockpit, told
Australia's Channel 9 that the pilots were smoking and were also posing for photos. The teenage girls stayed inside the cockpit for the entire duration of the flight.
Both smoking and passengers visiting the cockpit are strictly prohibited in most of the airlines, including Malaysia Airlines."
Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/5...ines-mh370-copilot-smoked-flirted-cockpit.htm
I flew in the cockpit and landed in it, flying from Seville to Madrid, in 2008. It was a trip. Incredible. I was invited mid-way between the flight, after we had gotten to cruising altitude, because I had been scared as can be during an intense take-off during a violent storm. Once we leveled out, they invited me up. They opened the cockpit door and let me in. I was strapped into a seat that had like six point belts. Like a roller coaster almost. Belts came down over my shoulders and across my waist. At first, I was shocked and scared. I could see everything. Then, as we began to descend, it was like a Disneyland ride. Just incredibly beautiful. I've never seen nothing like it.
(BTW, this is the second time my fear of flying had gotten me into the cockpit. The first time was Air New Zealand, coming back from New Zealand. I rode in their for about an hour. We were flying over Fiji at night. (I also got bumped to first class during the last third of the flight due to extreme turbulence and my panic, but I didn't enjoy it at all). That was in 1996).
Post 9-11, it still happens.
The sun has been up for almost 2 hours over there now..... you would think if the searching vessels (and their respective countries) took the China report seriously, they would send their vessels there ASAP! It seems to my simple common sense mind that they could have started heading that way even during the night....these photos have been released for hours now. If my family member were on that flight I'd be screaming at someone to go look NOW!!!
Heck, it seems they could send a jet aircraft to fly over the pin pointed area and tell if they see the debris...they keep saying it is "so large" and perhaps even too large to be the aircraft.
I hope this is something...but based on just how things have gone up to this point - I'm not feeling very hopeful.:banghead:
Yeah, I really don;t get this at all. they have the exact satellite coordinates. How hard can it be?
They are saying on CNN right now that the Malaysian's are sending aircraft there now to check out the image?
Why not hours ago?
I don't think the villagers saw something only because yesterday, all reports said -the plane made a U-turn.
I also discount people saying a life raft, and a dead body was found. I think that came from reports that the plane went down in the Malacca Straight.
15 minutes of fame and all that.... :twocents:
I agree, since the plane was last radared at cruising altitude, 572 miles p/h and there is, apparently, nothing to show why it disappeared or that it turned around. If it did and was gliding low off the coast of Vietnam, to land, I think it would've been spotted by radar as it turned and began to descend, would've transmitted ACARS info., and they would;ve radioed for help.
according the the new information and this map it looks like the current is moving south into the Java Sea towards Indonesia
https://www.google.ca/search?q=gulf...0-search-explained-in-two-graphics%2F;553;369
That is a great map. Thank you!
This is what I did (not sure if it's been posted on this thread yet - we discussed it last night on the previous thread):
Guy on oil rig who wrote letter:
- last speed: 471 knots
- distance between two points: 586.5 km (316.85 nm)
- time at same speed: .67 hours = ~ 40 minutes
- last communication per Malaysian airline on radar: ~1:30am
- est arrival time at that point: ~2:10am
(coordinates changed from degrees to metric)
the pic below has oil rig and drift and chinese objects in it. maybe someone can resize it and upload..or add to belimom's map?
http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.file?id=109874&filename=phpHJiv11.jpeg
Seems right, no? Current could've caused drift?
Here's the map with boundaries for who is responsible for what part of all that water. I think it is too big to post as is.
http://www.mpa.gov.sg/sites/images/pdf_capture/singapore-srr.jpg
So, it's Singapore and Indonesia that are mostly responsible for the area in question/