Posted on 03/15/2014 12:39:09 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Investigators say the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was hijacked, steered off-course and could have reached Pakistan. A Malaysian government official said people with significant flying experience could have turned off the flight's communication devices. The representative said that hijacking theory was now 'conclusive', and, as a result, police have raided the luxury homes of both the captain and the co-pilot.
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LOL!
Fully fueled, yes. Common practice these days is to carry only what you need for the planned trip plus a small reserve for delays/diversions, etc.
Distance from KUL to PEK is 2700 or so miles.
Speculation on whether the airplane took extra fuel in KUL but the Malay authorities, presumably knowing this and researching it, still believe the airplane only had enough for the planned trip.
Thanks, Laz!
Pingout to all y’all!
Some disagreement between the Malaysian officials....
But now its got more interesting, given that the cops are searching the pilot and copilots houses.
like I said on other thread, ELT’s not blaring their alarms, + comms shut off, + ability to go ~90 minutes past the distance from KL to Beijing = Bad Moon Rising!
Suspicions were raised when the Pilot said “What’s The Vector, Victor?”
I have a friend who is a pilot for UPS and he has built a similar set up.
He’s a flight nerd.
‘Give me Ham on 5, Hold the Mayo’
Roger, Roger.
Given the questionable level of investigative expertise demonstrated by Malaysian investigators this past week, and having delayed the inspection of the pilot's home seven full days once the flight went missing, confidence is low that the investigation will consider searching
Given the questionable level of investigative expertise demonstrated by Malaysian investigators this past week, and having delayed the inspection of the pilot's home seven full days once the flight went missing, confidence is low that the investigation will consider searching
Boeing built the first invisible Stealth 777 and didn`t even know it.
I am most definitely trying to summon a demonic army. Ummm...NOT trying. No sir. No demons here.
This has got to be the worst reported story in history.
The pilot was giving classes and was not only a pilot but an aviation buff. I don’t think there’s anything suspicious about this, since I have known many people who fall in love with flying and even if they are professionally employed as fliers in one capacity or another, love it so much that it takes up their every waking moment. So I’d say he was probably the first to die.
I’d look at the co-pilot. Beijing was threatened the week before and the co-pilot has an Arabic Muslim name but is very Chinese looking (meaning he might come from a hostile Muslim group in China or Russia, especially since the plane was on a route that could have taken it to the ‘Stans).
Whoever did this knew the plane well and was probably not alone.
I read in the WSJ that to disable the second system, somebody would have had to lift up the carpeting on the flight deck and go down into the electronics.
Being the pilot and co-pilot would certainly make things tidy.
I am glad this has been cleared up that it is a homemade Simulator, not the full blown Multi-Million Dollar jobbies pilots train in for time in Type and that is all they fly until they actually get in a cockpit after they are certified for that Type.
Again the Lame Streams drop the ball.
CC is right, their is a sub-culture of flight nerds that build these things, w/ joysticks, flatscreens, Flight Simulator Software and electro-hydraulics actuators that can simulate movement many of these folks have made cockpit clones that would amaze many...
Also, if it lands on a small island, the island may capsize.
1. Build a simulator
2. Train a fellow terrorist
3. Make a plan
4. Take off with your trained fellow terrorist on board
5. Shoot the co-pilot
6. Fellow terrorist takes place of murdered co-pilot
7. Shut off oxygen and fly to 45,000 feet to kill all the passengers.
8. Fly to a newly prepared landing field in an obscure island in the Indian Ocean
9. Cover the aircraft and then unload the gold/platinum/uranium/diamonds/cash/whatever
10. Abandon the aircraft
11. Escape in a fancy yacht
or
8a-11a. Run out of fuel and die
Yeah and sharks are still circling the ocean below waiting to be fed....
1. Steal Underpants
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
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