No, the old guys are telling everyone to STHU, at least this one is and I am not even that old.
Very few of you have flown in SE Asia (in particular KL) and have flown the 777, I happen to have done both (including KL many, many times).
Everything is supposition at this point until we have more solid info.
Even the NTSB guy on Fox the other night was spouting things that are not true about the 777.

Professionally speaking, put a cork in it.

I am saying did the crew put a NEW secondary flight plan in 12 mins before crossing open ocean towards Vietnam as a standard procedure as their t/o over open ocean was NOT the best airport to return "just incase" an emergency occurred.

12 mins before looks like it would have been before they coasted out.

To me putting a new secondary flight plan for a possible emergency ahead of time makes sense.

your right I have not flown the triple7 but I have flown corporate jets all over the world including Asia.

We have no way of knowing until the a/c is found.
To my knowledge ACARS does not transmit changes in the FMS to anyone. I am not even sure if that info can be pinged from the aircraft and I am thinking not.
The info "may" be retrievable from NV-RAM in the FMS once the ship is located.

I don't consider the water between Malaysia and Vietnam "open ocean" either. I have flown between KL and HKG many times which is the approximate route and you are in radar most of the way.


JJ21...you are either new or making stuff up.

Nope. It's a non-zero probability, but is virtually zero. All the fire speculation is driving me nuts... we try to get the plane on the ground within 15 minutes with a fire, and it would be even less likely for it to happen exactly at an FIR crossing. This thing kept on going for another 6 hours. There is virtually no logical way that happened with a fire.

There was no coasting out.... just an FIR crossing.

ok lets go to the basics...where would you go if you had an emergency in the same location that contact was lost with Flt370 in the middle of the night with lost communications?

Would you have preprogrammed a "emergency airport" (secondary flight plan) in the box PRIOR to flying over the SOUTH CHINA SEA?

How is that better?

FMC route data can get sent to ATC through a mode S transponder.
Those pprune folks talk about it here
ADS and CPDLC - PPRuNe Forums

I've always kept any unofficial waypoints out of Legs 1 just for that reason. I've been told that they can actually see what we have in RTE 2 also

Yeah, the spotters have found this thread unfortunately. Cue endless numbers of inane questions. It's turning into pprune!

So you're saying they landed at Midway? :p