MH370 suicide?

How did they just find out this plotted route now? From my years of FSX, their "logbook" that logs and saves routes is piss poor and usually inaccurate/broken.
 
IMO nothing else matches the profile. A smoke incapacitation would mean a fire onboard and the aircraft wouldn't have flown on for 6+ hrs. Pressurization issue would not have caused them to alter the course like they did. Historically speaking, in almost all de-pressurization accidents (Payne Stewart Learjet, Helios 737) the aircraft continues along the per-programmed route in the box. A hijacker passenger is unlikely, and certainly wouldn't have flown 6+ hrs if the intent was to hijack and destroy / harm Malaysians or the Chinese. No hint or suggestion of any problems/trouble to ATC or emergency frequency.

Nothing fits the profile except a deliberate action of waiting for a frequency change / handoff moment, turning the transponder to standby, taking the aircraft off course, and not issuing any mayday/help calls at any moment in time. All these events are factual and the only theory that can fit this criteria is a deliberate action by one of the pilots.

IMO, pilot suicide - most likely the CA.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
IMO nothing else matches the profile. A smoke incapacitation would mean a fire onboard and the aircraft wouldn't have flown on for 6+ hrs. Pressurization issue would not have caused them to alter the course like they did. Historically speaking, in almost all de-pressurization accidents (Payne Stewart Learjet, Helios 737) the aircraft continues along the per-programmed route in the box. A hijacker passenger is unlikely, and certainly wouldn't have flown 6+ hrs if the intent was to hijack and destroy / harm Malaysians or the Chinese. No hint or suggestion of any problems/trouble to ATC or emergency frequency.

Nothing fits the profile except a deliberate action of waiting for a frequency change / handoff moment, turning the transponder to standby, taking the aircraft off course, and not issuing any mayday/help calls at any moment in time. All these events are factual and the only theory that can fit this criteria is a deliberate action by one of the pilots.

IMO, pilot suicide - most likely the CA.
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Which hurts because I've backed that pilot having a simulator for so long. I thought it was wrong to assume having a sim at home made you a "suspicious pilot".
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Historically speaking, in almost all de-pressurization accidents (Payne Stewart Learjet, Helios 737) the aircraft continues along the pre-programmed route in the box. .
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Or go where the autopilot or even trimmed flight takes them. Like Bo Rein's 441 out of SHV, that got up to FL400 as it headed out to the Atlantic in the dark of night while being shadowed by F-106s.

Same with the Learjet with the NASA astronaut candidate Susan Reynolds out of MEM. The jet bypassed ADS and went into Mexico, crashing there.
 
Why would you need to practice running an airplane out of fuel? If you've flown an airplane for very long, you have a pretty good idea of the hours of fuel you have on a route and could simply plug in N+1 hour in a route.
 
Maybe he was curious where the plane was going to end up given the winds?

I don't know how realistic FSX is compared to the real world, but there are some sophisticated weather generators out there available for FSX that utilize real world, real time weather data in the game.
 
Meh. I still think they flew through some clouds, at which point the aliens who were refueling there saw them as a threat, took over their minds, and pointed their airplane away from them. When the aliens had killed everyone on board, the plane and it's passengers were doomed.
 
Just seems so strange. If it was suicide that is certainly a long, drawn out way to do it. Maybe one of the pilots somehow poisoned or killed himself/the other pilot and the aircraft just went on its way until it ran out of gas.
 
mshunter said:
Meh. I still think they flew through some clouds, at which point the aliens who were refueling there saw them as a threat, took over their minds, and pointed their airplane away from them. When the aliens had killed everyone on board, the plane and it's passengers were doomed.
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I believe you've been watching too much CNN.
 
chrisreedrules said:
Just seems so strange. If it was suicide that is certainly a long, drawn out way to do it. Maybe one of the pilots somehow poisoned or killed himself/the other pilot and the aircraft just went on its way until it ran out of gas.
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Agreed.

Unless he wanted to cover up the fact that it was suicide by pilot, and to do that, he planned on flying the aircraft out into the middle of nowhere so that it wouldn't be found.
 
I'm surprised the social media team at ISIL/ISIS didn't say, "Hey guys, just give us credit. This is another unique marketing opportunity!"
 
This does explain the supposed depressurization. Out of radar contact, handed off, point it to open water and put everyone to sleep.
 
The masks would have dropped when the cabin altitude reached 10,000'
 
But even if they deployed, those masks are good for, what, fifteen minutes of oxygen? And at 40,000 feet, I doubt you even get much oxygen as those masks don't effectively seal against the skin and most of the oxygen would escape because of the pressure differential.

Pure speculation on my part, but I always wondered about that.
 
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