Malaysia Airlines Loses Contact With 777 en Route to Beijing

[BoeingBobby]

Here is the DHL cargo jet mid air collision with a russian jetliner full of kids !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5I9yVEZWmw

Did not hear anything about a "dead" transponder. There are 2 on board all transport category a/c by the way.

[James Bond]

What are the odds MAS370 is intact and on a remote Indonesian air strip? I'd say high

This has also been my thinking for some time now, except that I was initially thinking somewhere such as Borneo (before the latest information surfaced).

Maybe an abandoned small island off the coast? Somewhere destroyed in the 2004 Tsunami?

Something in the cargo that they wanted?

[BoeingBobby]

This has also been my thinking for some time now, except that I was initially thinking somewhere such as Borneo (before the latest information surfaced).

Maybe an abandoned small island off the coast? Somewhere destroyed in the 2004 Tsunami?

Something in the cargo that they wanted?

You need to stop watching so much television!

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Wouldn't an aircraft of this size, with that amount of fuel on board require a very long runway? Would there be that many places they could land other than large primary airports?

[sjwk]

Depends whether they dumped excess fuel in the sea to form slicks to distract rescuers!

But if it was flying at low altitude wouldn't that burn up a lot more fuel than at cruising altitude?

[eTang]

This has also been my thinking for some time now, except that I was initially thinking somewhere such as Borneo (before the latest information surfaced).

Therefore my earlier question(s):
- would this be a (realistic) possibility?
- how far could they go?
- where would be suitable aerodromes/landing strips?

I wasn't aware of N844AA so far ... but actually underlines the - at least theoretical - possibility.


Somehow again - like a couple of days ago - I feel reminded of the sinking of the MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea: conspiracy hereover never ended! Did some cargo 'had to' disappear?

Something in the cargo that they wanted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia

And: in the case of MH370 ... maybe not only cargo but pax?

[James Bond]

- how far could they go?

http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=PEK,+KUL,+&R=2100nm%406%B0+56%27+12N+103%B0+35%27+6E,+2600nm%406%B0+56%27+12N+103%B0+35%27+6E&MS=wls&MR=600&MX=540x540&PM=*&PC=%23ff0000&RC=%23000080

Based on approx. fuel on board

[eTang]

http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=PEK,+KUL,...0&RC=%23000080

Based on approx. fuel on board

That would be at cruising altitude of 30-35K ft, right?

What would be the range flying down at 3000 ft?

[BlueMax]

Seems unrealistic that not a single cell phone wouldn't have transmitted at least a message by now. Washington Post story says US Officials now seriously looking at intentional pilot crash, similar to SilkAir 185 in Indonesia.

[Brainsys]

What are the odds MAS370 is intact and on a remote Indonesian air strip? I'd say high

Do quote some and I'll probably bet against you.

[James Bond]

Seems unrealistic that not a single cell phone wouldn't have transmitted at least a message by now. Washington Post story says US Officials now seriously looking at intentional pilot crash, similar to SilkAir 185 in Indonesia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer

A possibility?

[sjwk]

According to CNN, Malaysian airforce tracked it for 1 hour 10 minutes after radio and transponder broadcasts stopped, until it was lost above a tiny island in the Malacca Straits..

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/11/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Starting to sound like Oceanic Flight 815 now..

[Gabriel]

Guys, please stop with this nonsense about cell phones ringing.

There are lots of things that puzzles me about this accident. But there is one that doesn't:
There is no cell phone ringing and no dark had cutting the calls before someone answers the phone.

I have not heard of one single witness who heard a cell phone from a passenger ringing.

What they heard was THEIR cell phone with the CALLING TONE, which is not the same that the other cell phone RINGING.

Happens to me on a daily basis. Call someone. One or two "rings" from my side. Then "Call terminated". When I eventually reach the other person, they never got my call. Happens in the other way too with me not receiving calls from someone else despite their cell phones making a couple of calling tones.

End of the story.

[NavyDude]

If the CNN info is true, then the a/c flew right over Langkawi International Airport, with a pretty good 3.2 kilometers long runaway.

[phoneman]

It appears flight crew had a habit of letting passengers visit cockpit during flight. It's possible they may have let someone sit
in one of the pilots seat who may have done something unintended to cause an upset which they could not recover, like the Russian captain did by allowing his children to sit in the pilots seats.