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Malaysia Airlines Loses Contact With 777 en Route to Beijing
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Originally posted by Evan View PostUntrue. The SBD transmitter breaker is in the cockpit.
The Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System has two aspects, Goglia said. The information part of the system was shut down, but not the transmission part. In most planes, the information section can be shut down by hitting cockpit switches in sequence in order to get to a computer screen where an option must be selected using a keypad, said Goglia, an expert on aircraft maintenance.
That's also something a pilot would know how to do, but that could also be discovered through research, he said.
But to turn off the other transmission portion of the ACARS, it would be necessary to go to an electronics bay beneath the cockpit. That's something a pilot wouldn't normally know how to do, Goglia said. The Malaysia plane's ACARS transmitter continued to send out blips that were recorded by satellite once an hour
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Originally posted by Fear_of_Flying View PostHere's what I was referring to, but I guess this could be inaccurate:
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On Slashdot in discussion on how to best find this plane and if Navy can use what was used to locate sunken submarine someone made the following statement:
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"Maximum range at maximum load for the 777-200ER is 7,725 nmi (14,310 km, 8,892 mi), a whole lot more than the 2500 nmi circles the media is drawing on the screens."
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Is that true?
This person also suggested that it cannot be ruled out yet that plane was refueled.
What do you think?
Slashdot discussion can be found here:
US Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
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Originally posted by BoeingBobby View PostGabriel, Even if they are kinda close it is going to be very deep water.
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Originally posted by Gabriel View PostFirst I thought that the Sunda Trench was very far from the arc shows the possible points of last ping. Then I saw that I was wrong, it was rather the opposite, so I corrected myself.
I understood your second post. I was just commenting that they only needed to be close to it. It is still going to be pretty damn deep!
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Originally posted by BoeingBobby View PostDo you even have an inkling of an idea what the difference in fuel flow at FL250 vs FL420 would be? And what the hell is Vsw?
Vsw = the speed at which the stall warning wakes you the f*ck up. I'll give you slack BB cuz I'm sure you've never been there.
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Originally posted by Jonathan_Creek View PostOn Slashdot in discussion on how to best find this plane and if Navy can use what was used to locate sunken submarine someone made the following statement:
~quote~
"Maximum range at maximum load for the 777-200ER is 7,725 nmi (14,310 km, 8,892 mi), a whole lot more than the 2500 nmi circles the media is drawing on the screens."
~end quote~
Is that true?
This person also suggested that it cannot be ruled out yet that plane was refueled.
What do you think?
Slashdot discussion can be found here:
US Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
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Originally posted by Leftseat86 View PostGabriel don't even bother dissecting a "news" article from naturalnews.com. That website is a conspiracy theory nutcase hotbed, it's an arm of infowars.com run by that Alex Jones guy. The reporting, if you can call it that, is absolutely ludicrous to the point that it could be considered satire, but unfortunately these people actually believe this crap.
Posting it here is of absolutely no use whatsoever unless you're getting a laugh out of it.
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