Malaysian Airlines Jet headed to Beijing disappears

[Luthier]

This theory can be destroyed by just one simple question - WHO DA FAK TURNED OFF THE TRANSPONDER???

 

[ThinkBachs]

PETALING JAYA: Now there is another angle to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The Wall Street Journal today quoted US investigators as saying MH370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location. This is based on data automatically sent by the plane to the ground, reported the daily.
This raises the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ca...w-for-hours-after-losing-contact-says-report/

 

[trailboss99]

Can't they track the plane. Dont modern planes have tracking devices? I mean shait if I lose my phone I login into an app on the comp and it locates my cell.

They do and they don't. There is a system called ADS-B which is basically the transponder you are referring to. This sends a signal containing info covering the identity of the aircraft and it's location. This what FlightRadar24 use to provide their service. This signal is then incorporated into the radar image to provide ID and a stronger signal. The thing is that it is not mandatory to use the satellite version of this, just VHF. VHF has a range (at 30k feet) of around 240km so aircraft are frequently out of range. Believe it or not 2/3rds of the world's heavy transports (that's "airliner" to you) are often out of tracking range on a daily basis.

I have long been an advocate for a separate system that is totally self contained with a back up battery that sends speed, heading, altitude and location info by satellite but the 3kg weight, the $5 a day cost of monitoring and the fact it is only of use to find an aircraft that has vanished without contact rules it out.

 

[mydnytrydr]

I admit I'm no expert here, but isn't turning a plane's transponder off a 3 or 4 part process?

 

[trailboss99]

No, it's a matter of pulling a breaker.

 

[Q5?]

No, it's a matter of pulling a breaker.

Something sneaky happened.

 

[trailboss99]

Here is the list of SAR assets as of today:

 

[tt88]

You're fast boss.

:yoda:

 

[kire612002]

skynews latest

Satellites picked up an 'electronic ping' from the missing Malaysian flight after contact was lost, according to sources.

 

[Luthier]

Latest news from WSJ:
1. Plane flew about 5 hours, after transponder was shut off MANUALLY.
2. Plane continued to send impulses of data, after it disappeared from radars.
3. Plane, possibly, was landed in some secret location.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-480859/

 

[Corral]

Wow, I hope they are alright, if this is true.

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[If you see Kay]

All speculation so far without corroborating evidence

 

[cybee]

All speculation so far without corroborating evidence

Right. I just heard an interview tonight regarding the stellar record of the pilot and then the next channel a guy says that pilot suicide is an option. I don't recall ever hearing pilot suicide used as an option before, plus I think it shows disrespect to him and his family.

 

[arcadia]

From someone who often flies from one asian country to another, I'm grounding myself in the meantime. :ambivalence:

 

[If you see Kay]

One thing for sure so far is that this is truly a mystery.

 

[Luthier]

I hope passengers are alive. That's all I care. So far - no any evidence of crash, and it's good. But also no any evidence of anything. Total mystery.
Something going on somewhere...

 

[arcadia]

Just imagine if one of us, or any dealer or factory guy was in there? Another repdom mystery, that would be.

:yoda:

 

[mydnytrydr]

This story is one of the strangest I have ever heard....now, your plane may not only blow up or crash into buildings, it could possibly DISAPPEAR....without a trace!

 

[Luthier]

Latest news - all participating countries search teams went to the Indian Ocean. According to Reuters, there's a few (37, to be precise) small islands, where's old WWII military bases with landing fields...

 

[sub4me]

At least we stopped with the tin hat crap and now were discussing some serious possibilities, that being there was a deliberate diversion inflight and the plane has landed, in this case probably for criminal activity (we can only pray the passengers are all safe and will be home soon), or the plane did crash somewhere and just hasn't been found yet.

But I'm positive aliens didn't abduct the plane, zombies didn't eat everyone, and our government isn't hiding it.