Malaysian 777 enroute to Beijing missing!

[fr8doggie]

Some of the newer planes have a beacon that you can take with you. ETOPS planes maybe? It floats and you can turn it on manually or it turns on automatically when it his the water. The actual aircraft ELT can't be turned on that I know of.

I see. All FDX aircraft have a control panel on the overhead that lets us turn on the ELT that is hard mounted to the airplane. We also have portable ELTs in the rafts.

It's the first thing I would do if I was having an emergency and not in radar contact/VHF comm.

Regards,
Fr8doggie

 

[redflyer65]

Sorry I answered to quickly.....there is an ELT switch on the overhead panel. Shows how much attention I pay. Haha. Now where is that USA today?

The QRH does say ' if installed' though...

 

[scoreboardII]

SWA has the aircraft ELT armed via switch, activates at preset G loading, or you can manually turn it on, and two floaty ducky ELT's that are turned on manually and thrown into water.

 

[2000Easyguy]

Just saw this on Facebook

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/malaysia-flight-victims-families-offered-5000-airlines-23047589

$5000 to each passenger???

And air France only offered $25k??

Whoa-

Half-truth from MSM. Compensation has been established from the IATA.

http://www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2...SL Ratification of Montreal Convention En.pdf

 

[jetstream]

They know what happened to this aircraft. This is all a cover-up.

 

[Dan Roman]

They know what happened to this aircraft. This is all a cover-up.

Too funny, there are probably people out there that actually think this. I proudly say I hardly watch the news on this at all. I'm actually reading this string to catch up!

 

[Mr. Johnson]

Still waiting for KTVU to release the crew names...

 

[waveflyer]

Half-truth from MSM. Compensation has been established from the IATA.

http://www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2...SL Ratification of Montreal Convention En.pdf

Good stuff
I thought that's how it worked

So the down payment is $5k but eventually they'll all get $174k
Am I reading this correct?

 

[dollacrackho]

The simulator they're using on cnn is a replica of a 777 sim. Is that dude in the left seat even a pilot or just some dude who runs the sim for customers?

 

[EWR_FO]

The simulator they're using on cnn is a replica of a 777 sim. Is that dude in the left seat even a pilot or just some dude who runs the sim for customers?

Apparently it doesn't have an autopilot because he has been furiously hand flying it for a week now.