Malaysian 777 enroute to Beijing missing!

[SENECAII]

The left turn could have been to head for an emergency alternate, which they did fly to, but if they were then incapacitated the plane overflew it. Seven hours later it's on the ocean floor. Not sure if ELT can be heard from a satellite from deep under water.

The left turn was supposedly initiated 'prior' to the "good night" call.Why wouldnt they declare the emergency at the same time they were turning towards their emergency alternate.Seems strange to me why they wouldn't at-least say something since the turn was already initiated.
Now there is a supposed Maldive island eye witness that claims to have seen a low flying jet in the early morning hours that next morning.

 

[Capn Butthead]

Some dips?&t on CNN just said that he thinks it's a bad idea that cockpit doors are locked and that we need cameras in the cockpit to monitor the pilots....good luck finding pilots to fly the planes if you do that...moron

 

[densoo]

The left turn was supposedly initiated 'prior' to the "good night" call.Why wouldnt they declare the emergency at the same time they were turning towards their emergency alternate.Seems strange to me why they wouldn't at-least say something since the turn was already initiated.

Didn't know that one. I'm just hoping it wasn't the pilots. I can only imagine what Homeland Security, TSA, and FAA will come up with for us if it was. Cameras, no more jumpseaters, remote control of FMC in flight, annual psych eval, etc.

 

[nwaf16dude]

Military radar can fix a primary target and its altitude.

True, but only if someone had bothered to actually track that individual target with a height-finder radar (vertical scan vs. horizontal scan) at the time of the "event." Unless they are training, they don't routinely do that, so they can't go back and look at a surveillance radar tape and get a precise altitude.

 

[2000Easyguy]

Some dips?&t on CNN just said that he thinks it's a bad idea that cockpit doors are locked and that we need cameras in the cockpit to monitor the pilots....good luck finding pilots to fly the planes if you do that...moron

Yes sir, and back to back dip$hits as well?..not sure if you caught the second moron who parroted the first.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Too bad the Inmarsat pings laid down two potential arcs the next morning nowhere near where this guy believes.

Also, the Swissair accident involved an MD-11 not a DC-10, although similar, it leads me to think that the original writer's research was not as thorough as he wishes us to believe.

I don't know about you guys, but if I thought my plane was on fire over the ocean I'd probably fire off a mayday and a position before I just start pulling all the breakers.

 

[DieselDragRacer]

Since the General is on FI vacation, any word if he's one of these experts on CNN?

 

[ALGFLYR]

Locking the cockpit door is a must. A camera may not be so bad, it would give me a place to hang my hat...

 

[waveflyer]

Haven't you heard- ?
iPad cameras and mics work anytime the Jeppesen app is running even if it's in the background

Reliable source

 

[LoveGun]

Or maybe it was those lithium batteries after all. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/19/how-flight-370-could-have-become-a-zombie.html

 

[Donald]

Looks more and more like air piracy. A turn off course while turning off the Transponder and ACARS and probably dropping to a low altitude. Be interesting to see what the range would be with FOB.

Someone knew exactly what they were doing.

One claim was that they could tell the transponder was manually turned off. How is that? How could that look any different than a tripped circuit breaker from a surge/fire?

 

[jetstream]

All I know is that when I lose something and have searched for it in the same spot a few times with no results I make the decision that its not there and go look somewhere else.

Either that or I ask the wife. I can search all day for something and then ask her if she's seen it. She'll walk out of the room and be back with it in about sixty seconds.

 

[waveflyer]

What's taken you so long to ask the wife??
;-)

 

[Jim Smyth]

So with all these countries Satellite debree sitings and with GPS why cant they do a multiple day tracking and find the stuff thats floating? You would think they should be able to get within a few miles of where the floating items are figuring on Ocean and wind drift .

 

[sniper]

i still think is a hijack job here

 

[airplane wizard]

The Malaysian's don't want it to be found. They are hiding something.

 

[FFFO]

Based on the smoldering piles of BS perpetrated as news I'm not trusting anything they say, about anything. It's exhausting. Poor families.

 

[densoo]

They had an emergency, set a course for the diversion field, were incapacitated enroute. Plane got to the end of the magenta line and it went out of LNAV into heading, got to the TOD and without resetting MCP altitude and it went out of VNAV into ALT HLD. Flew until fuel ran out. It wasn't the pilots' fault. My guess. Good as anyone else's.

 

[fr8doggie]

Why no mayday?

I counted 7 different ways that I could send an emergency message on my airplane:

ADS
CPDLC
XPDR
ACARS
VHF
HF
ELT

Many of them require no more than 1-2 seconds to initiate. My feeling is this was a deliberate act.

Regards,
Fr8dogie

 

[waveflyer]

Based on the smoldering piles of BS perpetrated as news I'm not trusting anything they say, about anything. It's exhausting. Poor families.

This^^^