Posted on 03/18/2014 12:18:38 PM PDT by servo1969
No conspiracy theory stuff here.
This Boeing 777 pilot being interviewed here by Rush doesn’t think it’s realistic — but the idea sure has been thrown around a lot on Free Republic, from what I’ve read.
See #101 this thread.
What a F'n circus....I never realized i was surrounded by PHD's....................
Someday, I predict, we will hear a quiet news item that the climb to 45,000 ft was an artifact and didn’t really happen.
Then there's This Article in the London Daily Times which reports that the captain of MH370 had flight paths on his home made flight simulator with the Indian Ocean path on it with 5 landing strips marked where a 777 could be landed.
I did see that one posted earlier. It doesn’t sound like this Boeing 777 pilot being interviewed by Rush goes along with that one.
I don’t either, but I’m not a pilot ... I only slept in the Holiday Inn Express last night ... :-) ...
Someday, I predict, we will hear a quiet news item that the climb to 45,000 ft was an artifact and didn’t really happen.
Piled Higher and Deeper
I am intrigued that someone would actually propose that a plane can be disintegrated to thumb sized wreckage. In other instances, we call them "truthers." Except, I believe, they go to molecule sized wreckage.
True, but pilots aren’t perfect. I have watched pilots fly past a perfectly good airport, because they had something else already in their minds.
I don’t think it’s necessary to assert any more than what I did earlier. I said ...
It’s really obvious that the plane was purposefully diverted and it wasn’t some kind of accident. It’s also obvious that whoever is responsible knows quite a bit about flying and that plane.
As to whether we’ll ever find out what happened - we may not - just as we have never found out what happened to that other big airliner that basically disappeared into thin air about ten years ago.
We never found out about that one and it looks like we’re never going to find out about this one either.
I don’t believe that other big plane that disappeared about ten years ago was attributed to Islamic Terrorists.
I don’t think we’ll ever have any more of an answer than what I said up above.
The USAF/FAA use ARSR-4 to monitor approaches to US airspace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Route_Surveillance_Radar
Funny how people can’t accept simple physics. Golden Gate jumpers even know this - water has the same density as concrete at high speed. Considering terminal velocity is not even reached on that jump, it does not have to be even much greater than 100 mph to do real damage.
Yup its Im not wearing panties
until we have definitive evidence that this plane crashed into the ocean or a mountain side, I’m operating under the assumption that it is intact and weaponized.
At high speed, water = concrete.
Soooooo...you have a death fight with the co-pilot during which time the plane plummets 30,000 - 40,000 feet. You
kill the co-pilot and fly on for 6 more hours and once all fuel is exhausted, you then plunge the plane into the surf.
Not sure I buy that or not.
You’d think the lives of the passengers would be WAYYYY more important than diversity. That could be a multi billion dollar mistake.
Many airplane crashes have similarities, all are different in their circumstances.
Having said that, an onboard fire may not disable everyone or anyone, initially. However an exploding nose wheel tire can do alot of damage or one that "catches fire" .
The nose wheel tire is located very near what is called the electronic and equipment bay or as some refer, the E and E bay. An exploding tire, or slow burn could theoretically damage critical components knocking out electric power to communication equipment. And or damage other electronic equipment so as to create a high load on other equipment, causing electric busses to start disengaging.
A nose wheel tire can become overheated during the takeoff roll. It happens when a plane is heavily loaded, warm temperatures, long takeoff roll, late rotation, or rotation close to max tire speed. Not really uncommon.
In the scenario many are suspecting, is that smoke began to fill the cockpit. Oxygen masks are on and an immediate turn to the nearest airport is made. The climbing and descending can be because the autopilot has also become disengaged, that would explain why it took so much altitude to recover.
But as the 777 captain says, the oxygen system would have also become disabled or depleted and that is most unlikely. Very rarely to we find what is called dual failures.
The airplane would not necessarily be on fire enough to bring it down immediately. Small, fire, damaging equipment, producing smoke and might even go away if the oxygen source, (high altitude in an unpressurized bay) goes away and or fuel source is not enough to continue the fire.
Plausible but i am not buying it myself. But its the closest to Ocam razor that I have read.
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