Missing Malaysian Plane

[Segagendude]

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The captain was a flight sim enthusiast. Here's a link to a forum he belonged to showing his home cockpit setup: (He's Zaharie)

http://www.x-sim.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20&start=110&sid=6eaefa076b5325be6dc212d2d50f8298#p3972

[gerg1234]

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He had one hell of a setup. Dang.

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[Pokes]

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Here's a stupid question: How is it that we (everybody) can always trust that pilots themselves, generally speaking, aren't ever connected/involved or whatever? I think this happened once for an EgyptAir flight, and I think the pilots are probably the only ones who were able to do exactly what happened (the things that were deactivated, etc.).

Yes, they could have been coerced... but at any rate, what stops a pilot from being the one controlling all of this intentionally? I mean this in general, for any flight at any time. Forget a hijacker, that seems like too much work. Just do it as a pilot, you know?

This has happened before too, JAL Flight 350 pilot deliberately activated thrust reversers in mid-flight in an apparent suicide attempt.

Not necessarily so...as Burghfan points out here.....quick and extreme loss of cabin pressure wouldn't necessarily bring the plane down at once....it could keep going for quite some time. Think Payne Stewart's plane on a larger scale.

True as well. When KAL007 was intercepted and shot down it was able to remain in the air for awhile before crashing. However, in that time communications with the aircraft had ceased. But at the same time when PA103 was blown up communication was immediately cut off, transponder and verbal.

[WazzuRC]

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How It’s Possible to Lose an Airplane in 2014:

"It is a misconception that airline pilots are in constant communication with air traffic control, or that planes are constantly watched on radar. Once a plane is more than 100 or 150 miles from shore, radar no longer works. It simply doesn't have the range. (The specific distance from shore varies with the type of radar, the weather, and other factors.) At that point, civilian aircraft communicate largely by high-frequency radio. The flight crew checks in at fixed "reporting points" along the way, providing the plane's position, air speed, and altitude. It isn't uncommon to maintain radio silence between reporting points because cruising at 35,000 feet is typically uneventful."

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/malaysia-air/

This all makes perfect sense to me. It just seems crazy that with the readily available technology today, we can still lose an enormous plane. Hell, we can see from the depths of our galaxy and beyond.

I don't know, stuff like that just fascinates me -- as tragic as this is becoming.

[LowerWolf]

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Chinese satellites may have found it. And if they did, then it looks like it wound up crashing right after it lost communication.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/12/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

[Bruins]

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Everything We Know About the Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 370

http://gawker.com/everything-we-know-about-the-mysterious-disappearance-o-1542329084

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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Chinese satellites may have found it. And if they did, then it looks like it wound up crashing right after it lost communication.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/12/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

Apparently the location has been checked and nothing was found. Probably doesn't help that the photo is from over 3 days ago.

Also probably doesn't help that countries are more concerned about revealing their technologies than actually finding the plane (ex: China making their satellite photos blurrier so that we don't know how good their satellites actually are).

[TheMatrix31]

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http://online.wsj.com/news/article_e...MDEwMzExNDMyWj

Well then.

[jbd345]

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So, flight transponder possibly purposely turned off, the plane flew for another five hours than originally thought. Then the report of passengers cell phones still working. This is weird, really weird.

[8]

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I know this is an understatement but this doesn't feel right at all. The longer this goes the more I wonder about the possibilities of what is happening with this aircraft and potential terrorist ties.

[LowerWolf]

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Read a theory a few days ago that the plane was hijacked, the hijackers have been in contact with the Malaysian government and have told them to keep quiet while they negotiate or they'll blow the plane up.

As strange as this has been, that makes the most sense to me right now.

Losing a loved one is never easy, but this has to be absolute hell for the families. I'm frustrated by this search; I can't imagine what they're going through.

[Bullit]

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Not to sound like a conspiracy nut or anything but I have a different concern. I spent a bit of time in the Intelligence field when I was in the Army and a few things really set off bells for me.

One thing that keeps coming to mind is a hijacking. The whole thing has just struck me as odd. My concern is that it will be turned into a flying bomb as in 9/11. I have a fear that will see this plane again soon. The possibility of the passengers still being alive and used as hostages in a flying bomb to make it more difficult to shoot down.

Or of course it could just be.........

[8]

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Not to sound like a conspiracy nut or anything but I have a different concern. I spent a bit of time in the Intelligence field when I was in the Army and a few things really set off bells for me.

One thing that keeps coming to mind is a hijacking. The whole thing has just struck me as odd. My concern is that it will be turned into a flying bomb as in 9/11. I have a fear that will see this plane again soon. The possibility of the passengers still being alive and used as hostages in a flying bomb to make it more difficult to shoot down.

Or of course it could just be.........

This is my main concern.

[cjonesfan921]

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I don't think that's much of a concern, to be honest. No possible way that size of a plane can be landed somewhere without being noticed...no runaway big enough that isn't military or commercial airport. I'd say with 99% certainty it's under water. If this was a hijacking, at least from a major group, we would have heard already.

[Knight165]

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I don't know....
That would mean it would have had to have landed...get refueled and will have to get back up in the air all without any detection.
A 777 is a huge plane.

That would be a pretty big feat.


As for the plane flying on and phones still working...that would lend to rapid decompression....but even that doesn't seem plausible.
I'm pretty sure the cockpit is a separate entity in that regards....cabin decompression is not necessarily going to effect the cockpit(unless the door was open at that exact instant)....and even then...nobody gets to the emergency O2?(especially the pilot or co-pilot who would be at the controls)

Tragic...but interesting.

M.K.
Knight165