Uncontrolled Decompression Incidents Posted again for those that missed it buried in the garbage.
Far from unique there are plenty every year.
Decompression incidents are not uncommon on military and civilian aircraft, with approximately 40–50 rapid decompression events occurring worldwide annually. "Rapid Decompression In Air Transport Aircraft" (PDF). Aviation Medical Society of Australia and New Zealand. 2000-11-13. Retrieved 2008-09-01.[26]
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It helps put it in PERSPECTIVE.
A car can go missing right off a known travelled road and not discovered for 43 years. A plane can do the same. Let us not let the tinfoil hats win. A horrible accident happened. We need to know what happened to protect others from the potential maintenance or engineering flaw. It was NOT aliens, NOR conspiracies or any other BS story your imagination can come up with. I did my part by previously posting the list cabin depressurization accidents and it is not a short list by far and most probably fits this scenario although there maybe others. When you got a theory that relates to what is at least remotely plausible then let us talk about it. The theory I put forward has been put forward by commercial pilots as a plausible explanation. You have to start with the theory that makes some sense and is based on the facts as they are given.
A plane travels hours and crashes well off course in the Indian Ocean?
What does that sound like when you compare it to past events like this?
If I was going to believe anything then it would be fire and decompression and pilots become incapacitated for a plane to fly along then run out of fuel and crash that far off course.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10711590/Malaysia-Airlines-MH370-Cairo-777-cockpit-fire-could-yield-clues-to-missing-plane.htmlhttp://www.wired.com/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/I suggest when it is found they will find something like this as the cause. You don't need the god of the GAPS argument to make an educated guess. People are making educated guesses. LISTEN to them.
There is no point speculating further until more evidence surfaces, but in the meantime it serves no purpose to malign pilots who well may have been in a struggle to save this aircraft from a fire or other serious mechanical issue. Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a hero struggling with an impossible situation trying to get that plane to Langkawi. There is no doubt in my mind. That’s the reason for the turn and direct route. A hijacking would not have made that deliberate left turn with a direct heading for Langkawi. It probably would have weaved around a bit until the hijackers decided where they were taking it.
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/malaysia-air/ All you have to do is educate yourself. Read widely be skeptical. Just don't ignore the obvious.
It took investigators two years to recover the black box data recorder from Air France Flight 447, which went down over the Atlantic on June 1, 2009.
There is a lot here to respond to, so forgive me for the length
The list you provided doesn't really show flights the same as MH370... sure, they are similar, but I guess I take a more defined approach with this thinking because I want to compare an 'apple' to an 'apple', and not an 'apple' that is somewhat similar to another apple.
To save my own time and sanity, I stuck with the accidents in the last 20-30 years that I am guessing you would see as similar to MH370.
If you go with the theory of
decompression, I don't understand how the flight continues to move along the path they are acting like it took. Other incidents of a decompression incidents don't seem to show this behavior and typically result in emergency landings, not to mention the issue with the communications being disabled/etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522)
Rapid decompression
plenty of communication happened between the pilot and ground. Plenty of alarms, plenty of time for distress calls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_100Rapid decompression
Safely landed... 1 killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_30'
Rapid decompression. Again, plenty of communication & time to deal with the situation, and a safe landing nobody hurt. (even with numerous oxygen masks not deploying)
If you go with the theory of an
electrical fire + a decompression incident, I don't see how the plane goes on for 6+ hours and on the flight path they are stating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611 Explosive decompression - crashed quick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800Explosive decompression - crashed quick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772Explosive decompression - crashed quick. (I am seeing a pattern)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811Explosive decompression - well here goes my pattern. But, these guys made it safely and landed after a pretty extreme situation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103Explosive decompression - I like this one, it does have *some* similarities... no signs of a distress signal, but again, plane crashed quick and hard 8 seconds after an explosion.
I may be able to accept a ghost flight without the fire, but without a fire then you can't explain the communications manually being turned off, which would imply a severe electrical fire or a hijacking.
Generally speaking, I find it hard to believe that a vicious fire could have taken out the crew without being able to send a distress signal, and then continue to fly on for 6+ hours until running out of gas.
If you show me an incident, in the past, which had some type of electrical fire and a decompression issue that incapacitated the crew quickly enough for them to not be able to send a distress signal AND force them to quickly disable electronics to stop a fire before sending a distress signal AND THEN having that plane somehow continue to fly for 6+ hours while making turns
... then I might be able to stop looking at this damn thread and maybe I can get some sleep tonight
Until then, IMO, your theory is just as flawed as the tinfoil hatters. At this point, I haven't *accepted* any theory. Even though I do have my opinions. But anyone who has accepted 100% that this was an accident as you seem to have done, in my mind, isn't fully following through with their thought process.
I do hope some type of conclusive evidence will be shown to provide comfort for those families and the millions of people around the world scratching their head, but I really don't believe it will.
And one last thingThe link about the Egypt 777 flight, which was also a Boeing 777, and had an issue which is believed to be a short-circuit in the oxgyen line for the crew:
Wouldn't a fire of this caliber have killed the crew and took down the plane somewhat quickly. Major damage was caused to the Egypt 777 Boeing, which happened on the ground, and it took crews 90 minutes to get the fire under control.
Not so sure a fire like this is going to allow a plane to continue flying for 6+ hours.
BTW - imagination is a good thing to have if you use it correctly
