Malaysia Airlines MH370

http://t.co/G2yhCrRFBZ

A+ british tabloiding there.

"outrageously funny stories"

"A plane can't just disappear" :

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1681260/thumbs/o-MISSING-PLANES-INFOGRAPHIC-900.jpg

Did this get posted? I thought it was pretty interesting speculation from a pilot:

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13cv1gohsmbv5jmy221vrfyiz3vdhbop04

More Patrick Smith:

If indeed this was a hijacking, did the plane land somewhere, as some are suggesting, possibly to be used later as an airborne weapon of some kind, perhaps loaded with a nuclear or biological weapon? I seriously doubt it. I suspect, instead, the plane crashed into the ocean, and will be found there eventually. Remote as some airports are, none are small or unwatched enough to accept a Boeing 777 without it being obvious. And I can’t imagine a terrorist cabal incompetent enough to attempt to steal a commercial jetliner full of people, drawing the entire world’s attention to their plans. There are hundreds if not thousands of business jets and cargo planes out there, traveling the world more or less anonymously, that would be equally suited to such a scheme.

Did this get posted? I thought it was pretty interesting speculation from a pilot:

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13cv1gohsmbv5jmy221vrfyiz3vdhbop04

― polyphonic, Monday, March 17, 2014 11:56 AM (2 hours ago)

That blogger's views/experience seems dated as 777 comms are quad redundant to prevent total comms shutdown as he describes.

Also, the ACARS/transponders were shut off prior to the last comms with KL ATC, not after (contrary to his major reveal).

Comic relief or finally an answer:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/has_courtney_love_found_flight_370

came here to post that. it's just too good

xxp my understanding as of now is that the acars last transmitted before the "good night" message, and then stopped sometime within half an hour of that transmission (as it automatically broadcasts at 30 min intervals). whether that happened before or after the voice message is not known.
or did i miss something?

and i believe the transponder shut off was after the last voice message.

^^^I think that I've been confused by the shifting timeline provided by the Malaysian govt.

Newest breaking tidbit:

Senior U.S. officials said Monday that the first diversion that the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 made toward the west before it went missing on March 8 was initiated by someone from inside the cockpit through a computer program, the New York Times reported.

Citing senior American officials involved in the investigation of the missing plane, the Times reported that a person inside the cockpit typed several keystrokes into the plane's computer between the captain and the first officer. This computer directs the plane from one point to another according to the flight plan, which is submitted before take-off. But, it is still not clear if the plane’s flight plan was reprogrammed before it left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board.

I should have just linked to the real source (good article):

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html

Another good detailed article breaking the news that Zaharie's flight simulator had underwater practice runways near the Indian Ocean:

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/cops-find-five-indian-ocean-practice-runways-in-mh370-pilots-simulator-bh-r

If that's true & it was an intentional hijacking by Zaharie then that's pretty sloppy of him

I still dont get why a hijacking would be an option if no one at all has come fwd and owned this. Whats the point?

If it's just one guy who wants to move to North Korea/run away from his problems/sell the plane/etc it wouldn't be claimed by an organisation?

bit of an over elaborate way to do such a thing!

Another good detailed article breaking the news that Zaharie's flight simulator had underwater practice runways near the Indian Ocean:

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/cops-find-five-indian-ocean-practice-runways-in-mh370-pilots-simulator-bh-r

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 1:00 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf.

i wonder if some of the seeming contradictory evidence might suggest a cockpit struggle--not necessarily a literal physical struggle but one of the pilots attempting to regain control after the other had clearly diverted from intended course.

<-- pointless speculation dep't

supposedly the ELTs have a failure rate of around 15% but I don't know if that's for all of them as a set or individually.

Wait, underwater?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/malaysia-370-day-10-one-fanciful-hypothesis-and-another-that-begins-to-make-sense/284468/

http://www.quora.com/Malaysia-Airlines-Flight-MH370-Incident-March-2014/What-happened-to-Malaysian-Airlines-flight-MH370

Another good detailed article breaking the news that Zaharie's flight simulator had underwater practice runways near the Indian Ocean:

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/cops-find-five-indian-ocean-practice-runways-in-mh370-pilots-simulator-bh-r

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 1:00 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf.

The word "underwater" appears nowhere in that article. It refers to runways in the Indian Ocean region, not in the Indian Ocean.

lol

albert broccoli between this and the beer thread you have to get your facts straight

lol underwater runways

It all comes back to SPECTRE

The word "underwater" appears nowhere in that article. It refers to runways in the Indian Ocean region, not in the Indian Ocean.

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:16 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd already read the article and then was like wait did i miss

underwater runways was an awesome psychambient disc imo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Airport_77_movie_poster.jpg/220px-Airport_77_movie_poster.jpg

Secret Boeing Duckboat Project

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/The_Soft_Boys-Underwater_Moonlight_%28album_cover%29.jpg

I swear to dog it said underwater when I linked to it (I did note the article was 8 minutes old when I c/p'd it)!

...but then again it was like 2am after a long day.

I'm in your message board distorting your facts!

Hello Down There

Maledives residents see low flying plane with blue and red stripes: http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062

https://goo.gl/maps/egXlU

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjCC-ILCAAAX3TC.jpg

good idea, check lake superior

these graphics are supposed to convey the enormity of the area it could be but i don't find them convincing. it's 2014. it's very hard for me to believe that you can just lose an airplane for this long in 2014 no matter how large the search area for the flight (unless maybe it doesn't want to be found?)

how is that hard for you to believe? that's a huge area.

It's a pretty small circle, not even 500px by 500 px

http://news.yahoo.com/thailand-gives-radar-data-10-days-plane-lost-124915659.html

a circle that size only holds about forty 777s so I'm with mordy here

lol are you talking about the text, '777'?

well you clearly are so congrats

maybe they ran away

in 2014 I find it hard to believe that the plane hasn't checked in on foursquare AT ALL in this time I mean cmon

how long would it take to find a downed airplane in that area in the united states? 2 hours max? ok, so obv the issue isn't the size of the area at all but the kind of technology we have available in that area to track these things. a large body of water in the indian ocean poses different problems than the continental united states + bc of coverage issues different problems than maybe the atlantic ocean. so the question isn't whether the area is too big to search - it's about our capacity to search it. politics for sure plays a role, but it's hard to imagine knowing the little i do about the state of first world military technology that it couldn't be found in this long period of time unless a) it didn't want to be found or b) <tinfoil> it has been found and for whatever reason it's being kept out of the news? </tinfoil>

Mordy did you not see the infographic about the tens of aircraft disappeared over the last few decades?