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Press Conference currently under way has denied that transmission of engine data continued for 4 hours after plane lost from radar.
This is getting murky !!!!!!!
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282
Press Conference currently under way has denied that transmission of engine data continued for 4 hours after plane lost from radar.
The obvious problem that stands out at this point, Malaysia obviously doesn't want anyone looking at their radar tracking ability.
Does one get a sense of general disorganisation and lack of a command chain in Malaysia ?
Or maybe a cover up ?
The obvious problem that stands out at this point, Malaysia obviously doesn't want anyone looking at their radar tracking ability.
I am not familiar with the area personally, having never been anywhere near it. But based on the various reports it seems that there are a lot of freight ships around, there are oil rigs with people working on them, there are fishing boats, at least a few pleasure boats etc, aircraft flying overhead and so on. And yet nobody has found anything in the water, and only one oil worker claims to have seen what he thinks *might* have been a plane on fire (or it could have just been something else?). Then there's the air and sea based search efforts with multiple countries involved. Meanwhile the US says they can detect explosions etc but that there hasn't been one so far as they can tell.
All that leads me to see the whole thing as rather odd.
Could it have simply plunged (as an intact, complete plane) into the ocean at full speed with the nose pointing straight down and completely disintegrated on impact?
If the plane still had the engines running flat out and was pointing straight down (due to whatever cause) then what happens when it hits the water? I'd assume that it would simply disintegrate into a million pieces and that few if any parts would survive intact (and those that did survive may well sink), thus leaving nothing that's easy to find.
I don't know how plausible that is. But I do know that if you accidentally lose something over the side of a roughly 50 metre high structure and it falls under gravity onto the concrete at the bottom well then there isn't much left of the object afterward, it basically "blows up" on impact - what was solid is now lots of little bits. Been there, accidentally done that one many years ago (reportable workplace incident by the way). So I'm assuming that if you have an aircraft not just fall, but be actively propelled down by the engines at full speed, then nothing much would survive the impact once it hits the water. And the plunge from 35,000 feet would only take half a minute or so, an incredibly rapid descent, therefore may not be detected by anything or any alarms etc sent out in that time.
It sounds a bit extreme, but all the "conventional" crash (or successful landing somewhere) scenarios seem to be ruled out - not tracked on radar, no explosion, no mayday calls, can't find anything etc.
Few commentators seem to be prepared to put forward the possibility of a hijacking.
Couldn't either a crew member or a passenger have demanded the aircraft change course, disabling the communications (I have no idea whether all communications can in fact be so disabled so as to leave no trace of the whereabouts of the aircraft), and then fly it to some disused, or especially prepared airstrip, where the passengers could either be held as hostages or executed, and the plane left for use at a later date in a capacity such as those flown into the World Trade Centre?
It sounds fanciful indeed. But given the lack of any clues whatsoever, isn't it at least somewhat feasible?
Washington: Communications satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after it went missing on Saturday, but the signals gave no information about where the stray jet was heading and little else about its fate, two sources close to the investigation said on Thursday.
The "pings" indicated that the aircraft's maintenance troubleshooting systems were switched on and ready to communicate with satellites as needed. But no data links were opened because the companies involved had not subscribed to that level of service from the satellite operator, the sources said.
The system transmits such pings about once an hour, the sources said, but it remains unclear how many signals the plane sent after air traffic control lost track of it.
Few commentators seem to be prepared to put forward the possibility of a hijacking.
Couldn't either a crew member or a passenger have demanded the aircraft change course, disabling the communications (I have no idea whether all communications can in fact be so disabled so as to leave no trace of the whereabouts of the aircraft), and then fly it to some disused, or especially prepared airstrip, where the passengers could either be held as hostages or executed, and the plane left for use at a later date in a capacity such as those flown into the World Trade Centre?
It sounds fanciful indeed. But given the lack of any clues whatsoever, isn't it at least somewhat feasible?
It has been alleged that the plane flew on for another 4 or 5 hours....so who knows it could be sitting in a North Korean hanger being spray painted.
If that should happen to be the case, God help the passengers on board....they would obviously become political prisoners for the rest of their lives.
You're not the only one to consider rapid decompression while the plane continuing flight,OTOH , if the autopilot was on, and the pilots incapacitated or dead due due decompression bought about by a window or door blowing out, the plane could have kept flying to the limits of its fuel and crashed in a jungle somewhere. Funny radar somewhere didn't pick it up though.
You're not the only one to consider rapid decompression while the plane continuing flight,
http://pickeringpost.com/story/mystery-flight-may-never-be-found/2936
It is the most obvious conclusion at this time.
The reports of the plane continuing to fly, when comunications were lost,leans toward that conclusion.IMO
A third source familiar with the investigation told Reuters inquiries were focusing increasingly on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight, with 239 people on board, hundreds of kilometres off its intended course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
“What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards,” said that source, a senior Malaysian police official.
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