JJ21,

Just guessing here, but I'd bet you haven't done too many rejoins with a tanker on a dark night over an ocean? 'Fess up.

mournlight,


HCM was looking for the plane within minutes and presumably calling KL on phone lines asking about the missing plane on the handoff. It was called "missing" pretty quickly. Somewhere, a pilot posted that he heard HCM "going crazy" on 121.5 trying to reach MH 370.

No, the FMS is pretty simple, it will follow the flight plan entered. GIGO is the word here--garbage in, garbage out. And, it's already been posted, their was an ACARS transmission with the change in "next waypoint".

ACARS data will cease when on the ground with engine shutdown, although there are variations specific to engine/airframe and operator desires.

Transponder isn't normally turned OFF unless it fails or electrical fault. Erroneous outputs are another reason. I don't know of a TCAS system that will present anything if the transponder is OFF.

GF