'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

Amp34 · 2 Aug 2016 at 21:51

All that said:

http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/2014/06/mh370-most-likely-flying-on-autopilot/

Can someone explain to me why they came to that conclusion? How did an autopilot flying a route designed to get to China suddenly decide to use several waypoints in a completely different direction to the way it was supposed to be going?

Rroff · 2 Aug 2016 at 22:04

Amp34 said:
All that said:

http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/2014/06/mh370-most-likely-flying-on-autopilot/

Can someone explain to me why they came to that conclusion? How did an autopilot flying a route designed to get to China suddenly decide to use several waypoints in a completely different direction to the way it was supposed to be going?

Not read the article but I believe its something about emergency ILS approaches for auto landing or something which won't necessarily be along the plotted course and when it diverts to one and then abandons it the next could be any direction (I don't really understand it).

Amp34 · 2 Aug 2016 at 22:38

So quite possibly someone needs to reconfigure the autopilot software!

norm · 2 Apr 2017 at 10:41

Is anybody left looking for this?

What changes have been made to track all commercial flights so this isn't allowed to happen again?

Diddums · 2 Apr 2017 at 11:25

No, we're too busy funding Maddy.

Rroff · 2 Apr 2017 at 11:30

norm said:
Is anybody left looking for this?

What changes have been made to track all commercial flights so this isn't allowed to happen again?

Only so much you can do if the plane itself stops broadcasting - trying to blanket cover every last inch of the sky with satellite and ground based tracking to handle commercial traffic, etc. isn't really realistic as things stand.

Rannoch · 29 May 2018 at 18:35

Search is now cancelled.

Very interesting discussions here.

http://mh370.radiantphysics.com/

Rroff · 29 May 2018 at 19:01

Vargas said:
Search is now cancelled.

Very interesting discussions here.

http://mh370.radiantphysics.com/

I still think it actually went down somewhere north of Madagascar (latitude wise) and closer to the Arabian Sea - dunno why just instinctive. Despite the pings.

Rannoch · 29 May 2018 at 19:03

Nothing much new but a few awkward moments in this Aussie doc aired recently.

delta0 · 21 Oct 2018 at 20:18

News reporting a crashed plane has been found on google maps in Cambodia 12°05'20.4"N 104°09'05.1"E

To me it looks too intact and is more likely a picture of a flying aircraft probably between Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh

Rroff · 21 Oct 2018 at 20:25

No obvious signs of damage to the surrounding area - if it had come down remotely as intact as that image it would have cut a pretty big swathe through the vegetation which should still show some signs.

There used to be a great one over either Hyde park or St. James park of a aircraft flying over but they seem to have updated since

EDIT: Seems people have looked at historic images taken after the plane went missing and it isn't there then so that isn't where it came to rest if it crashed on the day.

SexyGreyFox · 21 Oct 2018 at 20:38

I read a couple of weeks ago that an expert said the wings don't match and Malaysia Airlines have shown zero interest

Malevolence · 21 Oct 2018 at 21:27

Dunno, looking at the image it looks far too intact to have crashed into the jungle, even on a shallow descent the dense trees would have torn the wings off and left a trail of debris behind it. And like Rroff says, there's also no damage to the jungle either. Besides, that aircraft, if it is indeed an aircraft, looks to have the engines mounted to the rear like an old 727 or MD-80.

wolfie138 · 22 Oct 2018 at 07:51

no way that's a crashed plane

Scania · 22 Oct 2018 at 09:38

Looks like a plane photographed flying over the area, a bit like the famous (in some circles) one of the Lancaster bomber flying over Huntingdon

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09/google_lancaster/

This is the thread posted when a guy spotted it over his house in Google maps.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/gec-places/LetgCK7FNWk

FortuitousFluke · 22 Oct 2018 at 11:57

Scania said:
Looks like a plane photographed flying over the area, a bit like the famous (in some circles) one of the Lancaster bomber flying over Huntingdon

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09/google_lancaster/

This is the thread posted when a guy spotted it over his house in Google maps.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/gec-places/LetgCK7FNWk

I lived in Huntingdon for 25 years, I've never seen that picture before. Very cool though!

Rroff · 22 Oct 2018 at 12:16

Malevolence said:
Dunno, looking at the image it looks far too intact to have crashed into the jungle, even on a shallow descent the dense trees would have torn the wings off and left a trail of debris behind it. And like Rroff says, there's also no damage to the jungle either. Besides, that aircraft, if it is indeed an aircraft, looks to have the engines mounted to the rear like an old 727 or MD-80.

Yeah if the vegetation in that area was soft enough you could force a plane down (and it is still clearly visible from above) that needs near 2km in normal conditions and atleast a few 100m in a ditch landing then there is going to still be signs of that and if it was dense jungle and/or wooded there is zero chance it wouldn't have had the wings severely damaged at the very least.

MooMoo444 · 22 Oct 2018 at 12:17

Damn I had forgotten about this one. Can't believe they still didn't find it. The pilot really wanted it to stay hidden, huh.

Rroff · 22 Oct 2018 at 12:28

MooMoo444 said:
Damn I had forgotten about this one. Can't believe they still didn't find it. The pilot really wanted it to stay hidden, huh.

I don't get the reluctance and dismissiveness as to the Iranian angle - there are a couple of abnormalities there but at face value the authorities appear to have given it little credence.

I still think it went down towards the north and west rather than deep south.

Rannoch · 10 Mar 2019 at 18:35

Chanel 5 tonight. Two programmes starting at 18.50.