Posted on 03/18/2014 12:18:38 PM PDT by servo1969
Seems like a lot of effort is being launched to convince folks of the on board fire theory. Yet with a sighting over the Maldives and Boeing blurting out its ascertained the jet has landed in Pakistan, and so now we have to prep a Seal Team 6 incursion but with resources to safely remove more than 200 passengers.
The captain is merely making a professional judgment call based on his experiences, there is no assertion whatsoever...........
And FWIW, his assessment certainly makes more sense that the rest of the 24/7 crap that is being fed to us by the MSM.......
BUT, maybe we can figure out a way to discredit him too...........
In this case you just have to know the password, "alluha akbar"
They're still sealed...........unless YOU figured out the code
Read the interview of the Boeing 777 pilot who obviously knows how that plane works. You’ll see what he says about the wild-eyed idea that the plane went up to that altitude to asphyxiate the passengers ... :-) ...
Hello NAPA, this is Al "the wrench" Queda calling from Islamabad. You got a couple oil filters and a set a brake pads for a triple 7-200?
“If your airplane had an inflight fire at altitude, would you want oxygen deployed?”
If I make delete your term ‘deployed’ and replace it with ‘don’, then the answer is yes.
Every jet I’ve flown says that for a cockpit or cabin fire, the first thing you do is put on smoke goggles and don the oxygen mask.
As I’ve read here, I agree with the theory that the plane was hijacked, probably by the pilot, and probably with the intent to fly back to Malaysia and crash into something governmental.
I strongly suspect, in the process of turning around and hiding his course, the Chinese shot the plane down because it flew over something sensitive.
The Chinese freaked about shooting down an airliner and, now that the situation has gone on so long, will never say a word.
Yeah, ever since 9/11, giant planes filled with people just vaporize in crashes.
I blame global warming.
So far as we know, the plane never came within 500 miles of China.
Some primary radar provide altitude, either by using a pencil beam (like a fire control radar) or surveillance radar with stacked beams. They transmit a big honking fat fan beam like a conventional surveillance radar and receive on a bunch of beams stacked in elevation. You can use the power ratio of the signal in adjacent beams to estimate elevation angle, and thence calculate height.
The png won’t embed, but look a figure 3 in this presentation:
http://www.radartutorial.eu/06.antennas/an12.en.html
As a practical matter, if the target is low to the horizon, even with a pencil beam, the scatter off the surface adds to the direct return in an unpredictable fashion, making elevation measurements unreliable. From about one beamwidth in elevation up, it’s pretty reliable.
I'm more inclined to believe that allah got another one, same as the other ones.
Of course not, thus the purpose of the Captain's aired interview.........LOL!
BTW, Occam's razor was made by Gillette.........
I heard on coast to coast that the plane found a new Bermuda Triangle. I think it hit the Indian Ocean.
I personally don't know, just am asking questions.
I don't know how things are separated and isolated on that a/c.
Otoh, a fight, leading to a zoom climb to FL450 and then to a stall and fall to recovery is certainly possible, if that reported flight data is true.
It's all just speculation.
***At 500 knots the surface of the ocean will play the part of the wall quite nicely.
I still don’t buy it. ***
!00% true. I saw the remains of a Navy fighter that hit the water at 400+ knots. With the exception of several slightly larger pieces, there wasn’t a piece that wouldn’t easily fit in a lunch box, most would fit in a cellphone case.
This was a fighter, built much tougher than an airliner.
A vertical dive from altitude into water will shatter the aircraft into tiny pieces, including everything inside.
What would happen to the black box in a crash like that???
It's called "promoting diversity", kinda like people voting for a president because he's black (or half-black).
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