Speaking of RTE 2, it makes you wonder what a normal Malaysian pilots might stick in there, and what an instructor with almost 20,000 hours might stick in there if he flew the route all the time, as a sort of graduate-level approach.

So last night a non pilot buddy of mine sends this news clip that fixes the time of route change prior to the infamous ATC hand off and "alright goodnight"... I hadn't seen it. Should one assume that there could be no errors in GMT synchronizations, or do we need to see historical audit proof?

Flight 370 had already turned before 'good night' message | On Air Videos | Fox News

Former TSA Director Phil Magaw on CNN just now saying cameras are needed in the cockpit because "more visibility is needed" into what pilots are doing and "how many times have they fallen asleep and overflown the airport."

Seriously?!?!? Falling asleep is clearly at epidemic levels. This coming from the director of an agency of incompetents. How many times has a terminal needed to be cleared and everyone re-screened because the TSA officer has fallen asleep and someone walked through the exit???

The Thai radar supposedly indicates gentle left turn of a primary radar target near the point where the Malaysian radar shows a sharp left turn of a primary target?

Yep, it's definitely those pilots causing all the trouble with air travel.

Government report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years - CNN.com

Yep. I can see it now. Feds mandate GoPros on every flight deck with auto upload to YouTube. That will surely solve any future dilemmas of this nature. :rolleyes:

A possible grand idea hatched from a hoot that was forced to resign suddenly becuase he was so inept and despised by just about everyone but possibly Vlad Putin.

Questions I have not seen addressed (at least publicly):

1) Was Capt's flight sim data simply deleted
or wiped to defeat forensic recovery?

2) Any background on either crew members religious (and/or fundamentalist) leanings? Malaysia is predominately Muslim. Just saying....

3) Was crew randomly assigned or did they buddy bid or otherwise ask to fly together?

Unless the HDDs were melted down, government agencies can probably recover the data if they want it bad enough. Typical commercial disc-cleaning apps are proof against hackers/criminals, not large intelligence agencies.

Nothing obvious, neither appeared devout as far as I've heard. The CA was political (opposition party) but that looks just political, not revolutionary (again as far as I've read into it).

Verified random, not buddy bid.

On this point, I disagree. Once data has been overwritten once, it becomes very difficult to recover; essentially you'd just be looking for a weak "shadow" signal of the previous magnetic bit.

Once data has been overwritten 4 or more times, it is absolutely impossible to figure out what was there before. And most off-the-shelf data wiping tools will do multiple overwrites.

If there is any source/evidence that a government agency can recover data that has been specifically wiped, I'm willing to listen. But short of that evidence, the idea goes against everything i know about hardware, software, and physics.

They can't find a freaking jumbo jet in this day and age with all this technology, i don't have much hope for it.