Malaysian 777 missing
03-18-2014, 06:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Timbo
"Maybe some of the younger pilots interviewed on CNN didn't pick up on this left turn. We old pilots were always drilled to always know the closest airport of safe harbor while in cruise."
03-18-2014, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Timbo
It's disturbing how CNN is drilling the pilots.
03-18-2014, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Past V1
Very interesting theory, worthy enough to post and hear your thoughts...
Keith Ledgerwood ? Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
Keith Ledgerwood ? Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
Would love to see them enact that rejoin at night, without NVGs, while the Singapore 777 is moving at .84 and Malaysian 777 is attempting to overtake it at red line with a 7 mile turn radius. And of course staying at of wake turbulence, lack of SKE to back up position without NVGs, and so on. And of course done by a brand new 777 copilot and neither had done that before.
03-18-2014, 09:43 AM
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Maybe the fire broke out, they put their diversion airport (they would have known ahead of time which ones they would be right? Even before take-off) into the GPS/enable autopilot and then both get up to fight the fire and eventually they succumb to the flames/smoke fighting it.
The idea of them both getting up and leaving the cabin is a stretch, but that would explain why there was no radio call. But then that leaves the transponder, oh i don't know.
The idea of them both getting up and leaving the cabin is a stretch, but that would explain why there was no radio call. But then that leaves the transponder, oh i don't know.
03-18-2014, 10:01 AM
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There is no guarantee at all that the oxygen bottles in the cockpit were serviced with 'aviators breathing oxygen' which is 100 percent oxygen. They may have been serviced with 'compressed breathing air' used by firefighters and rescue personnel. It has happened at least once which resulted in a fatal accident.
03-18-2014, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by F4E Mx
There is no guarantee at all that the oxygen bottles in the cockpit were serviced with 'aviators breathing oxygen' which is 100 percent oxygen. They may have been serviced with 'compressed breathing air' used by firefighters and rescue personnel. It has happened at least once which resulted in a fatal accident.
03-18-2014, 10:20 AM
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Alright, I have to ask this again about the ELT. Wouldn't a B777 in 2014 have a 406mhz ELT on it?
If it crashed then the ELT would have been activated by impact and within a minute an encoded digital message to a satelite saying the ELT's ID/aircraft ID, country code and coordinates. I've seen it work.
If it crashed then the ELT would have been activated by impact and within a minute an encoded digital message to a satelite saying the ELT's ID/aircraft ID, country code and coordinates. I've seen it work.
03-18-2014, 10:22 AM
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I just have a hard time believing that there could be a fire severe enough to incapacitate the crew and cause the transponder to fail, but yet the aircraft continues to fly for five hours afterwards. And how could a fire cause only part of the ACARS system to fail?
Considering what little information we do know, a deliberate act by someone seems more likely than some sort of catastrophic failure. My guess is they may never find the aircraft and we may never know the answer. It took two years to find most of the Air France wreckage and they had a much better idea of where to look.
Considering what little information we do know, a deliberate act by someone seems more likely than some sort of catastrophic failure. My guess is they may never find the aircraft and we may never know the answer. It took two years to find most of the Air France wreckage and they had a much better idea of where to look.
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