Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

It's good to see so many nations working together and helping with this search. This kind of international cooperation can only be a good thing and nobody seems worried by the cost. But the sea in that area has huge waves at the best of times, the weather's often bad to appalling and winter's on the way in that place too, so it's not looking that promising that the plane is going to be found. It wouldn't surprise me if it never was.

(25-03-2014 20:55 )Colonel Bogey Wrote:  pilot decides that he has to try and overcome the hijacker regardless of the risk to himself. He's worried that his desperate last ditch effort will fail, so he first makes a turn to the south to take the plane away from any potential target and leaves it flying south on the autopilot. He then attempts to overcome the hijacker in a do or die attempt and the hijacker is forced to kill or seriously wound him. With both pilots out of action the plane is now unmanned and can do nothing more than continue onwards as a ghost plane, flying south over the Indian Ocean, until it eventually runs out of fuel.

Perhaps there's another possibility - an attempted hijacking but without any struggle. Maybe the pilots fooled the hijackers into thinking they were taking them to the required destination, but actually without the hijackers knowing they set a different course and steered the plane south in an act of self-sacrifice.

(23-03-2014 21:26 )4waydiablo Wrote:  So what we are saying here is that every Boeing airliner these days is actually DESIGNED to be operated remotely.

Malaysia Airlines have now denied that MH370 was fitted with the Uninterruptible Autopilot System.

Around 300 more objects have been spotted in the Indian Ocean near the existing search area. A Thai satellite took images of these new objects about 120 miles from where a French satellite spotted the 122 pieces of possible debris reported yesterday.

Can any of these objects seen on satellite be pieces of ice which have drifted north from Antartica?

The new debris image :

Here's a very interesting twist to the story. A sister plane to the MH370 plane was once leased to Malaysian Airways but since November has been sitting in a hangar at Tel Aviv airport. If it hasn't been repainted, the only visible difference between the missing plane and the one in Tel Aviv would be its serial number.

http://www.planespotters.net/Production_...elesis-php

(27-03-2014 00:39 )Kellys Heroes Wrote:  The high-res ones are too busy looking at what the Russian soldiers are having for lunch on the Ukraine border.

Kelly's Heroes is right. All the images of supposed debris have come from commercial satellites, which don't have the same power as the military ones to get clear and closeup images. The military don't have any satellites trained on the southern Indian Ocean, because it's the middle of nowhere and there's nothing to see or to spy on.

(27-03-2014 10:33 )CIA Snooper Wrote:  Malaysia Airlines have now denied that MH370 was fitted with the Uninterruptible Autopilot System.

Does that mean it should be impossible for the plane to have been flown remotely?

(26-03-2014 21:29 )Matt77 Wrote:  no one really knows why the turn southward was made....

I know. It was because someone turned the plane southward.

MH370: Human input essential for flight changes
The disappearance of Flight MH370 could have only involved human input, according to a veteran Boeing 777 captain.
“We are not dealing with an out of control plane,” he said.
“It is impossible for the Boeing 777 to fly this course by itself.”

Full article: http://www.theborneopost.com/2014/03/27/...t-changes/