I love the overhead pictures of stuff on the water in these threads;
I do too, but I must ask, what year was this taken? (Sorry, Dad lived on destroyers for years, so I ask.)
I love the overhead pictures of stuff on the water in these threads;
Peter Bergen saying idea of 777 going past radar of India, Pakistan, and even Afghanistan is "unthinkable."
I just have a very hard time believing the pilots are involved, but of course, I know nothing.
The pilots would have been educated and in the upper-class of Malaysia - not the type of people working with terrorists, IMO.
Psychological issues - maybe. But then there is the issue of 2 pilots - they can't both have been going through severe psychological issues at the same time, or conspired together. One would have had to be able to disable the other pilot.
JMO.
One other random comment. I would prefer that the pilot of any jet I'm on be a minimum age of 35. I want a seasoned pro, even for a co-pilot. But that's just me...
http://abcnews.go.com/International...terpol-search-missing-plane/story?id=22922961
video here says the plane turned but then based on pings either went north or south.. if they have pings in both directions how could that be and what could that relate to? Perhaps unidentified pings in both directions that are not confirmed yet? Hope they can get to the bottom of this soon.
I think there is a lot going on here that we do not yet know, that is for sure.
By flying the jets you and I are on, I think.
Well, if true, it would suggest he might not have been in a good state of mind..... I really hope it wasn't pilot suicide, that would be one hell of a selfish way to go about it, taking 238 people with you. The Mirror newspaper is a tabloid and not to be entirely trusted. Oh I don't know, anything is possible.
Ok, can someone tell me how the flight is programmed in and if it can be altered once off the ground?
This is why I am thinking there a group involved here.
I hope I am not asking a redundant question and not quite sure how to word it....if we know from what they have told us about how much fuel the plane had....do we know if there is/was a reserve tank on that plane? If so, and the "hijackers" or whatever knew the amount needed to fly to the planes destination, how would the hijacker know if there is/was any reserve on board? TIA to anyone that might can answer.
And how would a highjacker know the amount in a reserve tank.
Wrt the transponder being turned off by someone other than the pilots:
The transponder of MH370 was switched off around the time analysts said it would have reached its cruising altitude, when pilots often emerge to take a bathroom or coffee break.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/20...alaysia-pilots-home?mch=mobilenh&mchpost=pos2
(But surely he would have noticed after he returned to the cockpit?)
According to CNN, within the last few minutes, the ACAR (sp?) system has to be turned off somewhere other than the cockpit, the transponder is right there on the dashboard, AND- both systems were turned out before "alright, goodnight".
Re the wife and children - weren't his 3 children grown? He has grandchildren - were they all living together in one house? I have read that he lived in a ated community but I haven't read who lived there.
I do too, but I must ask, what year was this taken? (Sorry, Dad lived on destroyers for years, so I ask.)
Are these not live satt images?
This might be a really daft question, but last summer the kids and I spent many an evening watching the International Space Station flying over us, if I recall correctly they could do a lap around the world (at UK latitude) in about an hour as some nights we saw it twice. So.. daft question maybe, but could the ISS have been deployed to go and have a look over the Indian Ocean??
I love the overhead pictures of stuff on the water in these threads;
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According to CNN, within the last few minutes, the ACAR (sp?) system has to be turned off somewhere other than the cockpit, the transponder is right there on the dashboard, AND- both systems were turned out before "alright, goodnight".
Are these not live satt images?
21merc7: To answer your questions as best I can (these questions were on a TV show I watched) The cell phones we use work on the ground but do not work at elevations.
The signals from the missing plane that were picked up on a satellite were only able to be picked up because there was some kind of a signal still active on the plane that the highjackers (or whoever) either didn't know about or did not know how to disable. It had to do with the engines and was part of a system designed to be sending a continuous signal on the state of the engines to the manufacturer of the engines.
Apparently the legitimate use of this particular system is for data from the plane's engines to be sent to the manufacturer's satellite. Then the data transmitted from satellite to the manufacturer so they can be prepared in advance to perform maintenance - have parts in stock, etc. BUT to have this system available, someone has to pay for it and Malaysian Airways did not pay for the transfer-of-data system.
But, despite the data transfer system not being operational, there was still the ability for the manufacturer's satellite to pick up some basic information from those engines, once per hour. So that's where they have gotten the information they have.
The "experts" on the show I watched said to expect to see changes made that in the future all airliners must have a built-in, permanent means of being tracked.
Over a week has passed. If this plane had crashed into the sea, surely something would have been seen by now? Unless it crashed intact and literally sank to the bottom then there would be some sort of debris floating somewhere. There are loads of ships and aircraft all out searching, and yeah, I know the sea is pretty big but I just don't believe that satellites/subs/planes wouldn't have seen SOMETHING this far into the search.
This might be a really daft question, but last summer the kids and I spent many an evening watching the International Space Station flying over us, if I recall correctly they could do a lap around the world (at UK latitude) in about an hour as some nights we saw it twice. So.. daft question maybe, but could the ISS have been deployed to go and have a look over the Indian Ocean??