Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

[Bandit_Driver]

Interesting Military uniform.

 

[Seggy]

I'm not an expert, but I don't think there is enough missing to render it unflyable if it were to fail at the same point.

It could cause stress on other parts of the structure if not repaired properly.

Which could become an issue when the wing loading shifts, say, from a climb to cruise portion of the flight regime.

 

[sweeps]

http://avherald.com/h?article=4703db82

Probably unrelated, but I had not heard of this incident of multiple lavatory fires on an Etihad flight between Melbourne and Abu Dhabi recently.

It took THREE more fires before they decided to have the lav guarded?? Geez

 

[sweeps]

Interesting Military uniform.

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Looks like a Russian pilot in the summer!

 

[womanpilot73]

@womanpilot73 - as a dispatcher, we start missing position reports, at what point do you start asking questions?

Our manuals state 15 minutes. That's for position reports and past the ETA at destination.

 

[Retired in SAN]

Not sure if this went around yet...
Stolen Passports on Malaysia flight

 

[SeanD]

Not sure if this went around yet...
Stolen Passports on Malaysia flight

You must have slept in today also.

 

[Retired in SAN]

You must have slept in today also.

LOL, So much minutia has developed on this thread I didn't bother to read all the past posts. Already reported hey? sorry about that. Back to my favorite mental state, Sleeping

 

[Pilot Fighter]

I'm not an expert, but I don't think there is enough missing to render it unflyable if it were to fail at the same point.

It doesn't take much to set in motion a domino effect of structural failures. Harmonic vibration from bad rigging alone can tear an aircraft apart.

 

[SeanD]

On CNN, one of the brainiacs said they dont have a boat to this oil slick yet and have not been able to determine if that is even what it is.

 

[Retired in SAN]

It doesn't take much to set in motion a domino effect of structural failures. Harmonic vibration from bad rigging alone can tear an aircraft apart.

You learn that real fast flying helicopters

 

[Pilot Fighter]

You learn that real fast flying helicopters

I spent a week trying to balance the rotors of my buddy's Mini-500. It continued to try to tear itself apart. My hour hovering this death trap is my only rotorcraft time. Interesting bit of trivia, a rotorcraft rating is not required for experimental helicopters unless there is a passenger or required by operating limitations. No, I didn't log it. Hey rotor heads, anybody hear of folks that used experimentals to build time?

 

[jgheggie]

You learn that real fast flying helicopters

Before I got airplane commercial I was looking into rotor wing. Then the guy at the flight school told me that a penny taped/glued to the rotor can throw the balance off enough to bring a chopper down! Not sure the mechanics of it...but it was enough for me to say, "no thanks!"

 

[Vector4Food]

On CNN, one of the brainiacs said they dont have a boat to this oil slick yet and have not been able to determine if that is even what it is.

WTF are they doing over there? Seriously....

IT's been half a day since they spotted it..

 

[Roger Roger]

Hey rotor heads, anybody hear of folks that used experimentals to build time?

I think I'd rather strap raw steaks and a large metal pole to myself and go swimming in shark infested water during a thunderstorm than fly an experimental helicopter.

 

[n57flyguy]

I think I'd rather strap raw steaks and a large metal pole to myself and go swimming in shark infested water during a thunderstorm than fly an experimental helicopter.

You bring the steaks, we've got some rolln' through next week...

 

[BeReal]

My dad's second aircraft. Gives me the heebie jeebies just looking at it.

The picture isn't my dad's gyrocopter, but that's exactly what it looked like.

 

[Pichettet1]

Before I got airplane commercial I was looking into rotor wing. Then the guy at the flight school told me that a penny taped/glued to the rotor can throw the balance off enough to bring a chopper down! Not sure the mechanics of it...but it was enough for me to say, "no thanks!"

I seem to recall myth buyers testing this one. Definitely not true. But, an unbalanced rotor can be devastating, if it's unbalanced enough.

 

[SeanD]

WTF are they doing over there? Seriously....

IT's been half a day since they spotted it..

Thats what I was thinking. Ive seen one video on loop of them flying over the area, some stock footage of a Chinese warship "en route" and a few dozen people piled into a dingy supposedly looking for wreckage (or asylum) If that happened anywhere else, there would be a fleet there by now searching. They found the AF wreckage in the middle of the Atlantic quicker.

 

[A Life Aloft]

Thats what I was thinking. Ive seen one video on loop of them flying over the area, some stock footage of a Chinese warship "en route" and a few dozen people piled into a dingy supposedly looking for wreckage (or asylum) If that happened anywhere else, there would be a fleet there by now searching. They found the AF wreckage in the middle of the Atlantic quicker.

As I remember, the first true items/pieces of wreckage from AF447 were found 5 days after it crashed. You have to remember that it takes time to organize a proper search, bring all the entities together and get/travel to what you believe the actual area of the search will be, grid it out and proceed to search. You are talking about searching a very large area in an organized and methodical fashion. The sea is huge, whatever bits they may find, many are damned small. The currents/winds have to be taken under consideration also. We do not even know at this point in what state (how intact) the aircraft was when it crashed. No eye witnesses of any sort have come forth either.