Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

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It was likely spotted flying over a remote island in Maldives. Many residents awoke to loud noise and saw a low flying plane fitting the description.

Would the Maldives fit into the line of where they would have been? I can't seem to find a map that places the Maldives and the path.

No.

[Anonymous]

No theory makes sense. This is a true mystery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It was likely spotted flying over a remote island in Maldives. Many residents awoke to loud noise and saw a low flying plane fitting the description.

Source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It was likely spotted flying over a remote island in Maldives. Many residents awoke to loud noise and saw a low flying plane fitting the description.

Source?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/18/missing-plane-mh370_n_4986445.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NBC news reported tonight that the ACARS update at 1:07am showed that the change in course had already been entered, 12 minutes before the co-pilot said "good night". So the course change wouldn't appear to have been made in response to an emergency.

Exactly. The fire theory seemed convincing to me until I heard this latest update. If true, it invalidates the emergency theory.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://plus.google.com/106271056358366282907/posts/GoeVjHJaGBz

fire in plane

MAYDAY MAYDAY FIRE IN PLANE

program to nearest acceptable airport

pull the busses and lose systems (communication, transponders)

Plane now heading in new direction

overcome by smoke

plane flies on until it runs out of fuel

This sounds very plausible in most ways, except for the continued pinging of the engines for another 8 hours.

Not plausible. If they had time to reprogram the plane they would have sent out a distress call or contact ATC

Also, did he fly up to 45,000 asphyxiate the passengers and crew? If so, very morbid to then be flying around on your final flight with a plane full of deceased passengers behind you. And what about the co-pilot? First kill him, then depressurize the cabin (but not the cockpit), then ride around with all those bodies? Extremely morbid and homicidal.

Did you read the article? It says you may choose to fly up to 45000 feet for two reasons: 1 - because oxygen levels are low and that de-fuels the fire and 2 - to dive back down in an attempt to manually extinguish the flames.

I know this isn't the sexiest theory because it has nothing to do with malice or terrorism, but it makes a lot of sense.

Original article with less weird looking link is via Wired: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

FWIW the original article was at the "weird" link. Wired picked it up.

[Anonymous]

CNN (Anderson Cooper) is doing a program update on this story now.

[Anonymous]

How did anyone figure out that the westward turn was programmed in 12 minutes before the last sign-off?

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Anonymous wrote:It was pilot suicide. He went on one final joy ride before he crashed it into the Indian Ocean. After the co-pilot left the cockpit for a break the plane soared to 45,000 ft to knock everyone out. The pilot wanted to die over the Indian Ocean.

Why do you conclude suicide vs. steal the plane full of knocked out people?

If it was suicide why wait 7 hours to die?

He loved flying. I'm sure if you know you were going to die and could control what your last few moments would be like you would choose to die doing something you loved.

So true. I wouldn't mayday or anything. Bye bye women and children!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did anyone figure out that the westward turn was programmed in 12 minutes before the last sign-off?

According to Brian Williams show on NBCnews, the fact that a new route had been entered into the system showed up on that last ACARS report that came in at 1:07 -- it wasn't clear whether only the fact that a new route had been entered registered, or if the new destination also could be gleaned from the ACARS data . This seems to suggest that authorities (Malaysian, NTSB, who knows?) knew this all along, which is interesting because they may have other bits and pieces of information they are working with, too. For example, I've heard it said in the media a few times that authorities were focusing their search along that southern arc, without any good explanation of why they were doing so (because the Ping alone wouldn't give you greater odds of it coming from the south rather than the north).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was pilot suicide. He went on one final joy ride before he crashed it into the Indian Ocean. After the co-pilot left the cockpit for a break the plane soared to 45,000 ft to knock everyone out. The pilot wanted to die over the Indian Ocean.

Why do you conclude suicide vs. steal the plane full of knocked out people?

If it was suicide why wait 7 hours to die?

He loved flying. I'm sure if you know you were going to die and could control what your last few moments would be like you would choose to die doing something you loved.

So true. I wouldn't mayday or anything. Bye bye women and children!

Even assuming the captain was suicidal ( which no one who knew him seems to believe to be the case but whatever), it's still a huge stretch to take down 260+ other people -- outright kill so many men, women and children -- on this suicide jaunt. It's so premeditated to lock the other pilot out of the cockpit, or kill him outright in the cockpit, then set about de pressurizing the cabin, disabling all communications, only to then present this laid back imbalanced that caused him to just want to fly peacefully across the Indian Ocean for 7 hours with his thoughts. I don't buy it without some indication that this guy was truly nuts. He looks like a kind father, grandfather, and family man in the pictures.

[Anonymous]

Didn't ACARS communicate with air traffic control? Why didn't someone there notice this left turn in the ACARS data and say WTF, where are you going ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NBC news reported tonight that the ACARS update at 1:07am showed that the change in course had already been entered, 12 minutes before the co-pilot said "good night". So the course change wouldn't appear to have been made in response to an emergency.

Exactly. The fire theory seemed convincing to me until I heard this latest update. If true, it invalidates the emergency theory.

I caught the same report. And I was going with the electrical fire theory too. If preprogrammed, then that brings piracy and/or terrorism back into the picture. I so feel for those families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't ACARS communicate with air traffic control? Why didn't someone there notice this left turn in the ACARS data and say WTF, where are you going ?

From the brief description on NBC news, seems like at 1:07, ACARS indicated that a new route had been entered into the computer, but the plane had not yet turned (i.e., no one had pushed "go" for the new route yet). The actual turn apparently happened after the "alright, goodnight" radio message (on NBC's timeline). Some commentator said that a pilot might enter into the computer a destination for a nearby airport or something as a safety measure, to always know where the nearest landing spot is. If that's true, it might not be a huge deal if ATC had seen the fact of a new route entered, especially if that route wasn't actually embarked upon until after communications were turned off. I don't know. Seems like it would be very important to know what, if anything, ACARS shows about what destination was entered.

[Anonymous]

Plus air traffic control is not monitoring every aspect of the data recorded or transmitted by each plane. They are mostly worried about keeping planes from hitting each other. Lots of other things to do.