Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

[knot4u]

But if he's on the outs with the wife would he care if the policy paid out??

Thought I read he had/has children.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Another argument in support of my electrical fire theory ... http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

 

[RDoug]

This morning, in the hotel lobby, I learned from the news that a 777 needs 12,000+' of runway.

Must be the B-777/Five-Two series they were talking about:

 

[U_of_I_Tweak]

Out of curiosity, why is that?

The issue I just came up with against a fire scenario...

A fire that happens to disable all of the communications equipment, but leaves the FMS, A/P, and other avionics operational? That's a highly selective fire.

Possible, but probably an order of magnitude less likely than intentional human action in my mind.

Sent from my DROID RAZR

 

[Cal Goat]

And I hate to sound cold, but CNN has a segment coming up on how the girlfriend of the American passenger can hold onto hope and how she knows her boyfriend is still alive. Well. She is so inundated with grief she isn't thinking rationally. Shame on you CNN for exploiting this.

I think you're watching CNN because you enjoy being outraged.

 

[SeanD]

Another argument in support of my electrical fire theory ... http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

It was posted on page 101 an it is a good article IMO.

 

[fholbert]

You mean like shadowing another 777 or the landing at a private air strip well stocked with tons of jet fuel? Its all posheeble!

At this point I don't discount any theory because this has to be the weirdest aviation event I've ever seen.

 

[fholbert]

Someone on my FB (no body here) posted a long post that he thinks the airplane passed through our atmosphere and is in space.

Correction, I'd discount that theory.

 

[derg]

This is certainly the strangest aviation story of our generation.

9/11, as bizarre and freaky as it was still had an alpha and omega.

This is just all… Alpha… at this point.

#margaritalogic

 

[SeanD]

Very strange and creepy for sure. Nothing clownish the media can throw at me will sway the creep factor here.

 

[FlySooner9]

Is that the case? If not, I can see the pilots turn, hit the AP, send a distress only to discover no radios, run the checklists, realize a fire, fighting it is not successful, succomb to smoke, plane flies on with the AP. This seems in line with the wired article.

Just not buying the fact that a fire of that magnitude to cook everything in the avionics compartment would put itself out without spreading or burning a hole in the plane. Just don't see it lasting for another 4 hours without crashing due to fire damage.

 

[MikeOH58]

BREAKING NEWS! THIS JUST IN! Not only did the Captain have a simulator at home, but there is evidence he trained at another 777 specific simulator training center TWICE in the past year! This could change the whole course of the investigation. Could he have learned how to turn off the transponder during one of these training events? Even more frightening, could he have learned how to program the FMS and possibly turn the airplane during one of these events?

 

[Markf64]

Just not buying the fact that a fire of that magnitude to cook everything in the avionics compartment would put itself out without spreading or burning a hole in the plane. Just don't see it lasting for another 4 hours without crashing due to fire damage.

I think there are lots of holes too. Just wondering

 

[Markf64]

Correction, I'd discount that theory.

What evidence do you have to discount this theory?

 

[Vector4Food]

New report

Local residents report seeing a large jet, much larger than anything they've seen around there

In the Maldives....

Location of the report in the pic below, report says around 615 local time (not sure what time that is in Malaysia)

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...s-residents-claim-to-have-spotted-missing-jet


Thus report would imply the plane was aloft for 8+ hours after last contact on radar, not possible according to fuel on board

 

[jgheggie]

No evidence found that indicates the pilots had anything to do with purposefully hijacking the aircraft.

http://m.voanews.com/a/us--search-of-malaysian-pilots-home-yields-no-terrorism-evidence/1874227.html

 

[derg]

A 777 is big, but not all that big compared to a 330-300

#AirbusDriverPenisMeasuringContest

 

[deadstick]

I think you're watching CNN because you enjoy being outraged.

Tooo funny.

I just got home and my wife has Don L and his merry band of experts on (thought I had blocked CNN...). Patrick Smith gets a pass -- good writer and his reply to the cell phone issue was great. Had I not just bought the tv it would have my car keys embedded in its screen.

 

[SeanD]

Tooo funny.

I just got home and my wife has Don L and his merry band of experts on (thought I had blocked CNN...). Patrick Smith gets a pass -- good writer and his reply to the cell phone issue was great. Had I not just bought the tv it would have my car keys embedded in its screen.

Isnt Patrick Smith a Southern Jets guy?

 

[derg]

Holy truck nuts, CNN, if it's true, stop whoring yourself out in front of the ATL pilot lounge for quotes.