its a non story.... some of the press have mentioned this Island in the Indian ocean and it sounds sinister etc... however the Island is Diego Garcia - its British territory leased to the US as a remote airbase... the plane would have no chance of getting anywhere near the place.
'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane
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its a non story.... some of the press have mentioned this Island in the Indian ocean and it sounds sinister etc... however the Island is Diego Garcia - its British territory leased to the US as a remote airbase... the plane would have no chance of getting anywhere near the place.
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Very strange why the plane seems to be where it is for any reason.
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Obviously it didn't.
The Yanks had to pick somewhere they could relocate bits of the debris to without getting caught.
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would it even have the fuel?.. didnt realise it was a base.
edit, its not as southern as i thought..looks beautiful tho. not exactly a high priority target i would have thought anyways
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Its a fairly important military base for the US, if the plane got anywhere near there they'd know about it.
you sparked my curiosity.. as you said, if its that important nothing is going to make it there intact
i was thinking with a girls perspective for some reason in that it didnt look too big so was therefore not important
The Star is on it!
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...ading-for-US-terror-base-in-9-11-style-attack
And how's this for ridiculously sensationalist and vacuous US reporting?
I thought it was a parody at first, but no, it's real.
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Did anyone see the Channel5 programme? I'm watching it now and oh dear. Best quote so far:
"In June 2009, Air France 447 - a Boeing Airbus - disappeared over the Atlantic."
I've re-played that bit 5 times and I'm quite certain that's what the narrator says. Boeing Airbus? Suppose it could have been 'bowing' Airbus but that wouldn't make any sense either!
"In June 2009, Air France 447 - a Boeing Airbus - disappeared over the Atlantic."
I've re-played that bit 5 times and I'm quite certain that's what the narrator says. Boeing Airbus? Suppose it could have been 'bowing' Airbus but that wouldn't make any sense either!
You are not imaging it, that is exactly what he says!
They were obviously so quick to try and knock out any kind of documentary about what has happened that they didn't even take the time to research it properly.
Best thing about that TV episode was when some specialist said it's a high possibility the flight was hijacked via the USB in the onboard media system using an app on a phone. Brilliant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26705073
I hope they're enjoying going round the Indian Ocean clearing up everyone else's rubbish.
You can just imagine the design review...
Hey, lets add a whole lot more complexity and cost to our media system project by having an interface to the flight controls !!!
Awesome !
*high fives entire meeting*
what if the fail safe fails
Also it's handy for maintenance, can just disconnect the circuit and lock of the breakers/fuses and that way you know you arn't going to get electrocuted fixing it.
i think you're right, it may only be the radio transmitter not the lower power sonar ping that runs out, woukldnt have througyht radio woulkd be much use underwater though anyway
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The call before the flight is weird. If it was an everyday normal call I.e his wife wishing him good flight then she would have come forward. The same with whoever else could have been on that last call to the pilot. It's not like the case isn't a media frenzy so the other party didn't realise it was them on the phone.
Only someone suspect in some way or physically unable to come forward I.e they are dead or it was a cold call salesman who wasn't aware acutely of who he was talking to would not be able to come forward and help the case.
Only someone suspect in some way or physically unable to come forward I.e they are dead or it was a cold call salesman who wasn't aware acutely of who he was talking to would not be able to come forward and help the case.
Or, on the other hand: "Lets save some money and weight by running the media systems off the existing on-board computer hardware"?
Check back through the thread and find the previous discussion on this topic. There were links to the presentation/demonstration of the app which shows the (theoretical?) control it can have over the navigation/autopilot system.
Of course, a lot of people have picked up on this and blown it way out of proportion. The demonstrated app couldnt 'hijack' a plane. It could manipulate waypoints and other navigational stuff, but would only work when autopilot was turned on and couldnt do anything to stop the pilot simply turning the autopilot off again.
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