Topic: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. WTF? - page 27. (Read 49322 times)

What's that supposed to mean?

   

All sorts of flight data and stuff. Vital info that could help determine what happened. Google it for further details.

I'm curious what information the black box carries.

CNN says Chinese ship found the pings and they are confirmed to match black box pings

This is it

Now to dive 5km under water

As plausible as all the other made-up theories  .

So is there any update on this ping search?

Who knows. I just can't wrap my head around the idea that the plane just vanished without a trace.

I was talking with some friends about this and someone came up with a fresh new conspiracy theory.

You know how Malaysia is slow in giving out updates, conflicting information, and changing wordings of the last transmission, which made it seems like they have something to hide...

My friend said what if the pilot or a hijacker blackmailed the Malaysian Gov for ransom or the release of a prisoner something like that, and the Malaysian Gov turned them down? Then the hijacker crashed the jet as threatened in the blackmail.

The Malaysian Gov did not do anything wrong, but still would not like the news to come out. Plausible theory? 

So you think the crew drowned of probably got eaten by the sharks.

Add a second ship, triangulate the pings, locate the plane in an hour, at most.

They got a pulse. Chances are that this time it is the MH370. Not many objects beam radio signals at 30 MHz, that too in the mid-ocean.

They need to hurry it up, because in couple of day black boxes from that plane will stop emitting signals. Just sayin'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/mh370-chinese-patrol-ship-detects-pulse-signal

Interesting, but it'll still probably be a false alarm.

Yes. The pilot was quite experienced. But in this case, he flew over a route which is normally not in use by civilian aircraft.

No it is not. The government loses a lot of money quite often anyways.

So this is just another extravagant proposal? The pilot had quite a lot of flight experience from what I gather.

I don't know where are the military bases. But it is quite possible that the Malaysian pilot was ignorant of the Indonesian "Closed Air Spaces".

I don't think it will be found anytime soon, if it truly crashed in southern Indian ocean maybe even never.

Also its getting too expensive, CNN reported yesterday that the costs already reached $70Million dollars and it could cost up to $1 Billion in the next month or two. Malaysian airlines is obviously not paying a dime as they have been silent this whole time

Where are the military bases and why would the plane fly over it?

People are weird creatures I guess, born with superstitious genes. IN the old days we'd have called anything we didnt understand an act of the Gods, now that many of us no longer believe in interventionist gods, its become aliens or elaborate secret government plots. Trying to argue against it is probably as fruitless as trying to argue against people believing in aliens or gods.

Still, let me point out a few things; about the eye witness reports. There are several eye witness reports from (among other places), Vietnam, Maladives, Phillipines and Sri lanka. Look at the map, and find out what that means. Yep, most of them simply have got to be wrong, flight 370 couldnt have been at all those places. That doesnt prove all of them are incorrect, but based on what would you believe one and not the other?  With an event like this, you simply know lots of people will either just make stuff up to get some media attention (and possibly make a buck), or project their own fantasies and whatever they saw that night, they will fool themselves in to believing it looked like a Boeing 777 from MA, even though at night they couldnt have seen much more than a few lights. What are the odds some other planes where flying low that night in an area that spans a quarter of the globe? Id say 100%.

As for the "theory" of the Malaysians shooting down flight 370; that makes no sense whatsoever. First of all, a plane making a turn is hardly a reason to scramble fighter jets, and far less a reason to shoot it down over water. Secondly, the controllers didnt even realize it made any turn or that it had disappeared for quite some time. Lastly, not even the US were capable of intercepting hijacked planes in time when they were flying over NY and Washington, I dont know what makes you think the Malaysian air force could.

As for the impossibility of a "mechanical fire" (wth?), I suspect the poster meant electrical fire. It seems entirely plausible to me that such a fire would disable onboard electronics or prompt the crew to disable those electronics, by pulling all circuit breakers. THe latter is actually standard procedure. Doing so may have stopped fueling the fire preventing it from going out of control.  How does a plane keep flying then? Simple, engines are almost completely autonomous and they are located quite far from the fuselage. Once started, all they really need to keep running is fuel, which the plane had plenty off. To put some perspective on this, there are several recorded incidents where the crew was unable to *stop* the engines after landing. For the most famous/recent example look up Qantas Flight 32, the airbus A380 that landed after one engine exploded. For 3 hours after landing the crew was unable to shut off one engine, no matter what they tried, with all electrical systems shut down and even with fire crews dousing the engine with water and foam. Thats how "weird" it is that a jet engine keeps running, its just what it does.