I really smell a rat with this one. When pilots are utterly at a loss as I know a few who are, it tends to lead one to believe someone somewhere is getting their story straight right now before they 'announce' their findings. Genuinely intrigued with this one.
'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane
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That's what I've been saying for days. They're just trying to concoct the most believable story. When it comes out it won't be that believable but it will have to do.
Interesting, however that would mean the plane flew thousands of miles over multiple countries without one challenging an unidentified radar signal...
Perhaps not as sensible as first thought.
Still it does again provkve the question of why do aircraft not have emergencyly beacons that work without power on them. You get small handheld EPERBS that work, why can't you have them on the plane. It couldn't be too difficult to fit one in each wingtip, with a small battery that automatically trip when power is lost. They probably wouldn't survive a crash but would keep on working if the plane disintegrated and at the very least show where some of any wreckage would have ended up.
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Wrong, it wouldn't have had full fuel levels for a start for what was essentially a short hop across the water. 1/2 full, perhaps, if that. Still many many miles away though
Or someone in Iran trying to cover up why two Iranians boarded with stolen passports.
Is publishing factual documents psychological warfare?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rlines-search-expands-third-possible-sighting
Cool, it's now hundreds of miles somewhere else.
In other news, Vietnam has called off their search.
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Not wrong at all. The original flight plan was "thousands of miles over multiple countries", and it would have been fuelled to reach it's destination...
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That still means it would have flown all the way through Vietnamese airspace, followed by Chinese airspace without being challenged. If it deviated from the route that was set on autopilot then it would have flown into hotly contested airspace around the paracel islands and then into Taiwanese or Filipino space.
I just don't believe a plane could continue flying without being challenged in that area of the world on autopilot (ie not descending to a few thousand feet, below military radar).
The legs thing wasn't a theory ... IT WAS A JOKE.
You jumped to the conclusion that he had created it. He didn't, the authorities did and distributed it widely.
Yes, wrong. To clarify, the 777 would have had enough fuel to complete the meagre 2600 miles compared to its theoretical range of 11000 miles (9k nautical) on full tanks. So yeah, if that theory is true, it may have come down in the East China Sea or the Sea of Japan
And when you say multiple countries, you mean two, maybe 3 at a push
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It's all part of the plan man. They're tryin' to get you man. It's a conspiracy man.
I can see them when I close my eyes
So, the plane is expected to fly over Malaysia, Vietnam, (possibly Cambodia) and China on a 3000mile trip.
How is it wrong to say "thousands of miles over multiple countries"?
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My typing is very bad usually i do correct most of it but if I'm tired I don't bother tbh.
Note: this post required 16 corrections.
Well it took of from Malaysia and was due to land in China, so that's two countries out of your list already
No he wasnt...he said he doesnt believe that it could traverse multiple countries without broadcasting it's identity and not be challenged.
China was expecting the normal arrival of a plane with all of it's comms functional. A plane entering china without identifying itself or responding to radio calls is unlikely to be ignored.
Same thing when it passes over Vietnamese airspace (and cambodia). In the scenario he was referring to, the 'ghost' plane could have also passed through Phillipines, Korea, Japan (but these were not on the original flightpath)
The chances of all these countries ignoring the unidentified plane is highly unlikely.
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At the moment the North Korea missile one is perhaps the most likely! Especially as a week before they launched one that's trajectory would have gone through a Chinese planes flight path.
Could a missile, if it was a certain size/power simply obliterate a plane like that? This would account for the lack of debris. If it was literally blown into loads of tiny pieces then it may end up being very hard to find any trace of it.
Incredible bit of bad luck if that is the case!
Could a missile, if it was a certain size/power simply obliterate a plane like that? This would account for the lack of debris. If it was literally blown into loads of tiny pieces then it may end up being very hard to find any trace of it.
Incredible bit of bad luck if that is the case!
Apparently the US have an infra-red imaging satellite in this area which can detect missile launches and explosions and it's unlikely it was destroyed by a missle/bomb.
(This is second-hand info from another website - i have no idea if any of this is true)