Likely Theories about Missing Malaysian Plane
03-20-2014 | 08:50 PM
#31
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Occam's Razor: Simplest explanation is usually most likely answer.
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
"All right, goodnight'.
Major event, perhaps lithium batteries fire. Noxious fumes.
Old school captain taught to turn off Transponder before changing code. Never got back to it.
I was always taught in an in flight emergency to turn off course to prevent conflict with following aircraft.
Easiest? Rotate heading bug (to 90 degrees off course or safe heaven). HEADING select.
Crew overcome by toxic fumes. Incapacitatation.
Flight continues on heading til .....
Fuel exhaustion.
Splash.
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
"All right, goodnight'.
Major event, perhaps lithium batteries fire. Noxious fumes.
Old school captain taught to turn off Transponder before changing code. Never got back to it.
I was always taught in an in flight emergency to turn off course to prevent conflict with following aircraft.
Easiest? Rotate heading bug (to 90 degrees off course or safe heaven). HEADING select.
Crew overcome by toxic fumes. Incapacitatation.
Flight continues on heading til .....
Fuel exhaustion.
Splash.
03-20-2014 | 09:06 PM
#32
Da Hudge
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From: Poodle Whisperer
Occam's Razor: Simplest explanation is usually most likely answer.
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
"All right, goodnight'.
Major event, perhaps lithium batteries fire. Noxious fumes.
Old school captain taught to turn off Transponder before changing code. Never got back to it.
I was always taught in an in flight emergency to turn off course to prevent conflict with following aircraft.
Easiest? Rotate heading bug (to 90 degrees off course or safe heaven). HEADING select.
Crew overcome by toxic fumes. Incapacitatation.
Flight continues on heading til .....
Fuel exhaustion.
Splash.
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
"All right, goodnight'.
Major event, perhaps lithium batteries fire. Noxious fumes.
Old school captain taught to turn off Transponder before changing code. Never got back to it.
I was always taught in an in flight emergency to turn off course to prevent conflict with following aircraft.
Easiest? Rotate heading bug (to 90 degrees off course or safe heaven). HEADING select.
Crew overcome by toxic fumes. Incapacitatation.
Flight continues on heading til .....
Fuel exhaustion.
Splash.
Sorry, but the most simple explanation is someone commandeering the airplane, be it one or both of the pilots or someone from the back with knowledge of 777 functionality. The way the comm systems went offline as well as the transponder without any further comm and right at the FIR boundary makes most any other explanation have to take logical jumps. Aircraft on fire tend to fall out of the sky in a spectacular manner...
03-20-2014 | 10:06 PM
#34
Da Hudge
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Possible. It is also similarly plausible that the pilots were killed, whoever took over was neutralized, and they were left with no one who know anything about operating an aircraft and exhausted their gas in the process... or similar combinations. The possibilities are rather wide ranging at this point on what went on.
03-20-2014 | 11:17 PM
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Possible. It is also similarly plausible that the pilots were killed, whoever took over was neutralized, and they were left with no one who know anything about operating an aircraft and exhausted their gas in the process... or similar combinations. The possibilities are rather wide ranging at this point on what went on.
I doubt this mystery will ever be fully solved.
The aircraft may be found, but with a fair amount of certainty there will be no valid voice data.
If this does not change recording protocols in commercial aviation - nothing will, ... read "yesteryear is good enough"
03-20-2014 | 11:18 PM
#36
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How about this...
There was a structural failure like Aloha 243 that took out the O2 system and some electrics. The crew is incapacitated and transponder and other reporting systems are taken out. the engines continue to run, but nobody is awake to manage the aircraft.
While I dont suggest this IS what happened, it is a plausible solution (and no aliens were required).
There was a structural failure like Aloha 243 that took out the O2 system and some electrics. The crew is incapacitated and transponder and other reporting systems are taken out. the engines continue to run, but nobody is awake to manage the aircraft.
While I dont suggest this IS what happened, it is a plausible solution (and no aliens were required).
03-21-2014 | 06:12 AM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
How about this...
There was a structural failure like Aloha 243 that took out the O2 system and some electrics. The crew is incapacitated and transponder and other reporting systems are taken out. the engines continue to run, but nobody is awake to manage the aircraft.
While I dont suggest this IS what happened, it is a plausible solution (and no aliens were required).
There was a structural failure like Aloha 243 that took out the O2 system and some electrics. The crew is incapacitated and transponder and other reporting systems are taken out. the engines continue to run, but nobody is awake to manage the aircraft.
While I dont suggest this IS what happened, it is a plausible solution (and no aliens were required).
Also the Aloha bird popped because of years of extreme duty...many very short hops at low altitude in the salt air. They (Boeing, regulatory agencies, airlines) learned from that, I think it would be unlikely it would happen on a modern airplane that sees two duty cycles/day.
03-21-2014 | 06:52 AM
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I have to admit I had no idea who Lyndon Larouche is. Had to Google him. Other then having relatives in Lynn MA., I can't see any commonality between us. Reading about him was interesting.
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