'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

Somewhere buried in this thread is a link which says that you can turn off pretty much every transmitter from the cockpit. This is partly so that you dont have loads of noise coming from parked/taxiing planes and partly because you want to be able to turn off the individual transponder if it goes wrong and causes interference with other electronics

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well, if nothing else I have found one of the ships that is doing some searching, although how I could miss it I don't know: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014/map/471894
 
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Its unlikely to be suicide since literally the flight before, these two employees (cpt and co) were cavorting with beautiful Australian / NZ women well beyond their leagues....
 
Doohickey said:
The Americans probably spotted it on satellite the moment it went down/off course. Probably going to release bits slowly so as to not embarrass the Malaysians/not look as if they really have eyes on everything in the entire world.
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They wouldn't be sitting on the information for almost a week.
 
Wouldn't it be great (in comparison to having crashed) if the plane had been stolen to order and hidden somewhere as some people are keen to suggest. So the people on board are hopefully alive and well.

I think that's extremely unlikely though.
 
Robbo said:
Wouldn't it be great (in comparison to having crashed) if the plane had been stolen to order and hidden somewhere as some people are keen to suggest. So the people on board are hopefully alive and well.

I think that's extremely unlikely though.
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You can't land such a massive machine "somewhere", it hasn't arrived on any of the runways that allow a safe landing which means the plane is most certainly destroyed. The only unknowns right now are "how?" and "why?".
 
If I was a criminal on the run, I'd be heading straight for Malaysia.

If they can't find a 777, what chance have they got of finding little me.
 
Zethor said:
You can't land such a massive machine "somewhere", it hasn't arrived on any of the runways that allow a safe landing which means the plane is most certainly destroyed. The only unknowns right now are "how?" and "why?".
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Yes you can. A plane requires far less landing room than it does to take off. It is theoretically possible therefore, that an experienced pilot who lived and breathed 777s, such as the one on MH370, could land a 777 on a shorter runway whist sustaining minimum damage.
 
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