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Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China
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Anonymous
Alright, good night. |
Anonymous
I both curse you and love you. I need to go to sleep, but instead am reading the pprune thread. |
Anonymous
Yikes-pun intended I guess. Still wondering why co-pilot said "alright goodnight." |
Anonymous
I've read that this is a very common phrase for pilots to use when they sign off from one Air Traffic Control and onto another, which he was doing at the time. Since it's now debatable as to whether the transponders had been turned off at that time, it would be a logical thing to say at that point in the journey if he didn't know there was a problem. I think that it comes across as weird because you think "why would someone say goodbye in the middle of a flight?" but realizing that he was saying goodbye to Malaysian ATC and expecting to say Hello to Vietnam ATC in a few moments, it's a pretty benign statement. |
Anonymous
Yep I agree. Its amazing how anything can sound suspicious. Pilot had flight simulators in his house. Sounds ominous until you hear that a lot of pilots do this (and couldn't it be the sign of a good pilot). |
Anonymous
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If they find the plane where they are now looking in the Indian Ocean, then it's not about hijacking, right? That just leaves pilot suicide or catastrophic event with the aircraft ... the latter being the worst scenario in my opinion ...
From BBC News: Investigators have not ruled out any possible explanation for the missing flight. However, some experts believe that if debris of the plane is found in the southern Indian Ocean, it is unlikely that the plane was hijacked. "The reasonable motives for forcing the plane to fly there are very, very few," Gerry Soejatman, a Jakarta-based independent aviation analyst, tells AFP. |
Anonymous
| We may never know. It's that simple. |
Anonymous
| Has anyone posted about Ethiopian Airlines flight 961? Hijackers made the pilot fly towards Australia. The pilot told them there wasn't enough fuel onboard, but they didn't believe him. The plane ran out of fuel and crash landed in the water. There were 50 survivors, but 125 fatalities. |
Anonymous
I hope you're wrong. At least we're closer to an answer today than we were at the beginning of the week. |
Anonymous
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Here's a link to details on the Ethiopian Airlines flight.
http://www.airdisaster.com/special/ethiopian961.shtml |
Anonymous
| Seriously, we need a psychic at this point. I am so frustrated! |
Anonymous
Yes I read about that on Wikipedia. The pilot used a lot of tricks to try and save the plane (staying near the coast, etc). I think it's the only documented water landing where people actually survived. Fortunately they crashed in front of a beach full of vacationing doctors. The pilot survived. Those hijackers were drunk morons; you can't read about it without hating them. There's another one--where the co-pilot committed suicide--do you recall that one? Really he was trying to get back at (the pilot?) someone on board who had reprimanded him for sexual misconduct. Drove the plane down into the sea. If this debris turns out to be our plane, I'm suspicious re pilot suicide…running out of fuel doesn't seem to fit the profile of suicide (if you can have a profile)…I think driving the plane into ground/sea/mountain seems more likely. I wonder if this pilot was hijacked and just trying to keep the plane away from targets. |
Anonymous
| anyone ask their grandparents or great grandparents what it was like when earhart dissapeared? |
Anonymous
We're really not if you think about it. |
Anonymous
Except your friend was not the pilot of a large airplane that disappeared with 239 people on board. |