Malaysian airlines plane missing

[GreekLunatic]

are they sure this time

[Tannin]

[woodisgood]

[Tannin]

Nice try: the fact remains that controlled impacts with water generally leave aircraft intact. This has been so for more than 100 years. Are you suggesting that this has suddenly changed?

An uncontrolled impact, of course, is a different matter .

[watt price tully]

With all the speculation of terrorism, malfunction, pilot gone nuts, etc a fascinating story about the only pilot who foiled an armed skyjacking & saved his passengers:

At 29,000 feet, with the plane still climbing, the emergency light flashed in the cockpit. False alarm, one of the crew members said. It happened often. Flight attendants sometimes grazed against the warning panels, sounding the alarm. �No,� Bar-Lev responded, �we�re being hijacked.�

Seconds later a flight attendant�s voice came through the intercom: two people, armed with a gun and two grenades, wanted to enter the cockpit. If he didn�t open the door, they would blow up the plane.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-to-defeat-airplane-terrorists-from-the-only-pilot-who-ever-foiled-a-skyjacking/

[woodisgood]

[Tannin]

^ That's quality posting. Colour me persuaded.

[Jezza]

Very sad outcome for everyone on the plane but it does sound like that one of the pilot is being investigated and many are wondering who he was talking to in his last phone call five minutes before the flight. That call may give us an idea of what transpired on the fight after the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur.

[think positive]

Have they found it yet?

Did they ask that little fella from the island

[Tannin]

Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water department ....

Dr Recalcitrant himself, the former Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir, who was so famously and so justly insulted by Paul Keating all those years ago, has announced that "The loss of the plane is due to the makers, Boeing."

Dr Recalcitrant? Perhaps he should now be known as Dr Ignorant. What a tool.

[Morrigu]

MH370 not in Indian Ocean search zone: ATSB

The missing Malaysia Airlines plane is not in the Indian Ocean search zone where acoustic "pings" were detected, search co-ordinators have confirmed.
MH370 went missing on March 8 about one hour into a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau [ATSB] has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and, in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370," the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre said on Thursday.

The co-ordination centre announced on April 7 that a pinger locator towed from the Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield had picked up two acoustic signals, with one held for more than two hours.

At the time, it described the signals as consistent with flight data or cockpit voice recorders, the most promising lead yet and likely from a man-made source.

Two days later, two more signals were detected, holding for about five and seven minutes.

The JACC's statement on Thursday came hours after reports that the search had gone back to square one, citing US Navy deputy director of ocean engineering Michael Dean as saying the pings came from some other man-made source unrelated to MH370.

''Our best theory at this point is that [the pings were] likely some sound produced by the ship ... or within the electronics of the Towed Pinger Locator,'' he said.

JACC has also confirmed the end of the Bluefin-21 mission, with the underwater drone detecting no signs of aircraft debris since it began scanning the sea floor off the West Australian coast on April 14.

The Bluefin-21 has scoured more than 850 square kilometres of the ocean floor looking for signs of the missing aircraft, but has been constrained by depth operating limits and technical hitches.

Having earlier narrowed down the search area based on the pings, JACC is now casting its net much wider, saying it continues to review all existing radar, satellite and aircraft performance data to define a search zone of up to 60,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean.

That zone still follows an arc defined by British company Inmarsat based on the final "handshakes" between the Boeing 777 and satellites.


http://www.theage.com.au/national/mh370-not-in-indian-ocean-search-zone-atsb-20140529-396ml.html


Wonder if they will ever find it........

[stui magpie]

New theory. Flight MH370 was detoured to Africa to pick up a party of 300 Nigerian schoolgirls and fly them to Themyscira.

[Skids]

It's not far from here, 160k's north of Meekatharra. They're filming a reality show called "Lost" will be screened after the AFL season finishes.

[Pies4shaw]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/26537432/theories-that-captain-downed-mh370-persist/

This article was posted on 6 March 2015. In the wake of what seems to have just happened in the French Alps, some re-evaluation may be in order.

I note that Mr Hansford, one of the people mentioned in that article, seems to have told the ABC today that this sort of thing has happened 9 times in the last 20 years: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-27/french-alps-plane-crash-aviation-expert-calls-on-industry-to-act/6352578

It would be interesting to know whether he counts MH370 as one of the 9 or whether he has identified 9 other such incontrovertible incidents (as you will see, the first article refers to "the SilkAir Boeing 737 that crashed in Indonesia in 1997, the Egypt Air crash off the US coast in 1999").

Is murder/suicide by pilot that common? Does anyone know? I may be walking to Penang next time I go.

[HAL]

Suppose they do.