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Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China
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Anonymous
I think he addresses it. The pilot peceives an emergency, types in the location of the nearest acceptable emergency landing field (which he knows by hert due to long experience in the area and training), then turns to the crisis at hand. But he suffocates or passes out, and the plane flies on to the emergency location, then past it, staying stable until it runs out of fuel. |
Anonymous
So a fire was bad enough to knock out ACARS and other electrical equipment, but never knocked out the auto pilot? How does that happen? |
Anonymous
I am not sure, as I am not familiar with those systems, but if an experienced pilot thinks this is a plausible theory given all of the information released, I'm inclined to believe him. |
Anonymous
They do work when you fly low (under 10,000 feet) over 2 densely populated areas of Malaysia - as this plane apparently did AFTER it turned around. -yet no calls/texts were made. And - even if the phones/tablets/computers were out of reach, what about the satalite-linked telephones available for a fee in business class on that flight? Passengers/crew had access to those satalite phones. -yet not a single known call was placed. Why? The lack of calls came after the plane had apparently risen above its authorized ceiling and went as high as 45,000 feet. My best guess is all the passengers had been asphixiated by then. |
Anonymous
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Yeah, I don't get the working auto pilot when all communication is lost. I'm not familiar with the wiring schematic of the 777.
If I were on a 24 hour news network, I'm sure I could fill up 4 hours guessing Abbott the wiring. |
Anonymous
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I'm the 13:59 poster.
According to the Nova Scotia flight referenced in the Wired article, they lost auto pilot. Communication was intermittently working. |
Anonymous
There's reference to "pulling the busses" in the original story, slang for manualy shutting down electrical systems to try and identify/contain source source of fire. Not all circuits are shut down at once. |
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Anonymous
| Flight simulator at pilot's home apparently showed five landing strips in the Indian Ocean. |
Anonymous
Source? |
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Anonymous
Holy shit. That sounds like a major development. I'm off to goggle it. |
Anonymous
+1 I have not seen this reported anywhere. |
Anonymous
I don't know that it's a major development. He was by all accounts very enthusiastic about flying. If he did those long haul flights regularly, he probably practiced emergency landings at airports and landing strips. And those 5 landing strips could easily be the closest ones to particular points along the route. |
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The fire doesn't make sense to me. Protocol in a fire is oxygen masks on first. So pilots wouldn't have been immediately incapacitated. They have oxygen in tanks and it would have lasted more than long enough for them to send a distress call. Also a distress call would have gone out as soon as they turned the plan around. Pilots in emergencies immediately contact ATC and ask for the nearest point of landing. If the pilots were still flying then, and reprogramming the flight they would have sent out a Mayday or distress call. especially seeing as another pilot was able to establish radio contact and heard mumbling (aka pilots were still conscious). Also the plane didn't just run and fly in a straight line as it would have if they had just reprogrammed it and set it to autopilot.
Also if the fire started in the cockpit, then the passengers and flight crew would still have been fine until they started to smell smoke, oxygen masks dropped etc. As they were close to land, phone calls would have been attempted and texts sent and the texts would have gone through as soon as they were back over the Malay peninsula. It makes zero sense that pilots with oxygen masks on would not send out a distress call or contact ATC |