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Originally Posted by Ftrooppilot
(Post 1600161)
Pilot left cockpit to visit restroom. Radicalized FO locks the door and says "my airplane, " pulls CBs, turns off switches and goes about his "thing" - whatever was planned.
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Originally Posted by The 99s
(Post 1600422)
Someone posted this on another site: NOAA data for 4 days ago shows a major disturbance of three of the buoys west of Smith Island (in the Andaman Sea - also known as the Nicobar). Displacement of the first buoy shows approximately 1500 feet (down). Weather doesn't seem to have been severe enough to cause this type of disturbance.
Not many people could turn off the plane's Transponder, ACARS and ADS without prior knowledge. If one pilot leaves to go to the bathroom, it is hard to brake back in if the other pilot refuses entry with the new doors. |
Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
(Post 1600443)
SONAR is soundwaves...
The "pinger" is an acoustic device as well, not RF. Even VLF only goes down to 20 meters below the surface. Submarines use that for communications when they would come up near the surface. Only ELF frequencies can penetrate down to submarine operating depths. VHF and UHF have far less penetration that is limited to just below the surface. |
Originally Posted by rickair7777
(Post 1599915)
Different systems may handle roaming differently. It may attempt to contact the phone via it's last know cell, and may generate a ring-tone while it's doing that. The ring tone doesn't always mean the phone is ringing, it may just mean the system is looking for a phone that never "checked out" of a cell.
If you turn your phone off, it should check out and the system would know it was off until it checked back in. But if the phone was left on for TO and just flew out of range, the cell at the airport might assume it's still there. I wouldn't read ANYTHING into this until authorities do some forensics on what exactly the cell system was doing. |
Condolences to the family and loved ones of the 239 on board. A lot of wild speculations here. Maybe we should call off the witch hunt and wait until we have facts from credible sources.
Dead men tell no tales…let's not tar and feather any of the crew based on assumptions. |
Originally Posted by TheFly
(Post 1600548)
Dead men tell no tales…let's not tar and feather any of the crew based on assumptions.
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Originally Posted by FLY6584
(Post 1600549)
Agreed. What an insult to make accusations against the FO who may have died fighting to save this aircraft and all of it's passengers.
Especially those that were made up while wearing a tinfoil hat. I think many people here could benefit from understanding Occam's razor. What's more likely? A complex hijacking scheme in which a qualified airline pilot (with almost 3000 hours, gasp!) locked the Captain out of the cockpit, disabled every automatic reporting system on the aircraft in order to achieve some yet-to-be-determined objective or a catastrophic failure at a 3rd world airline with a likely spotty maintenance program? |
this thread has really turned into the National Enquirer with some of the posts
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Is this related?
I happened to look at the Spot Coverage Map today, and noticed that they are having "technical issues impacting connectivity and service levels" in exactly the area where the plane went missing.
Is this because of the massive search efforts? Or some other cause? Anyone have more information? http://www.findmespot.com/images/spo...e_feb12_14.jpg Coverage in Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh and parts of India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Philippines are currently experiencing technical issues impacting connectivity and service levels. Issues are identified, and we are looking to resolve them. |
Any 777 avionics techs out there know if the FMS is fed any wireless signals?
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