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Malaysia Airlines Loses Contact With 777 en Route to Beijing
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?
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Originally posted by orangehuggy
the most dangerous part of a flight is not the take off or landing anymore, its when a flight crew member goes to the toilet
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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..
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.
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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.
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