Posted on 04/05/2014 10:18:12 AM PDT by servo1969
Malaysian officials admitted Saturday that the batteries on the black box of missing flight MH370 were expired and due to be replaced.
The plane has been missing for 28 days.
A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am, 8th March 2014. The plane was carrying a total number of 227 passengers including two infants and twelve crew members.
The Strait Times reported:
Malaysia Airlines chief executive officer (CEO) Ahmad Jauhari Yahya today confirmed that the batteries of the black box pingers of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 were due for replacement in June.“And as far as the batteries are concerned, we confirm that there is a maintenance programme whereby the batteries are replaced prior to its expiry.
“We do know that the batterries are due for replacement only in June 2014,” he said at a briefing on the search operation for MH370, here today.
Ahmad Jauhari said this in respond to a question from the floor whether the pinger batteries were due for replacement in 2012, as claimed by its US based manufacturer Dukane Seacom Inc.
On Friday, Dukane Seacom Inc president Anish Patel told CNN that the recorders were scheduled for battery replacements in 2012, but they were never returned for the overhaul.
All commercial aircraft are required to carry pingers, known as underwater locator beacons, to help investigators locate them should they crash into water.
One is attached to the flight data recorder (FDR) and another to the cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
The FDR and CVR make up the flight recorders, also known as the black box. The pings sound about once per second, and can be detected from two nautical miles away by towed pinger locators (TPLs).
If I had to make a choice between reality and incompetent reporting, I would just wait.
Batteries are shelf life items. They have a date when they are considered “expired” before they are installed. Once they are installed in equipment, they also have a standard useful life based on the battery type and the typical draw of the equipment they are in. Just because they are past their shelf life or installed useful life doesn’t mean they won’t work. These designations are somewhat arbitrary.
No government is this inefficient. Somalia would have handled it better. Something is off.
Pilot and co pilot were members of the bearded savage cult. That tells us all we need to know.
Terrific! Brain of Malaysian Airlines CEO Has Expired, Not Due to Be Replaced Anytime Soon
IF found to be criminally negligent.
Unfortunately, Malaysia Airlines would certainly not be the only ones.
In addition, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America are scary. Primarily local flights.
Even U.S. Airline flights to some Pacific destinations are uncomfortable, mostly in the weird items those flights allow on some flights.
Your post gave me a visual of the pilot thousand miles out over the ocean tapping on the fuel gauge going “Oh’ crap should have fueled up at that last stop”...
Which means that they still have a lot of juice left in them -- for this search anyway.
You’re using statistical methods and logic.
Is that allowed on FR these days?
This assumes facts not in evidence.
Most of us view the pure science of Oceanography, and the charting of currents and their seasonal changes as a pure waste of time. Who cares?
But there is a hundred years of great science ocean records, yet I have not seen a single instance of Ocean current experts providing critical input.
Or it may simply be that the average TV viewer is too stupid, dull and ignorant to be interested. So those viewers keep asking really stupid questions and making embarrassingly ignorant statements.
Nope, not just criminally negligent. Just negligent period - batteries not being replaced is pretty basic so far as aircraft maintenance.
Legally expired does not mean there is no more juice in them. It means they are due for prudent replacement. Saying expired means no more stored power in a battery is like saying that food has no more nutrition when it reaches its "use by" date.
I’m updating my theory. Meanwhile on an airstrip in Pakistan/Iran OR Diego Garcia. :-)
So the batteries work. More importantly, the Chinese claim to have picked up some pings on the proper frequency.
Look it is not that the batteries were due for standard replacement as part of maintenance. That is not the concern. The concern is that the batteries themselves a usage life that is around 30 days. The two are not identical. One is preventative the other is about drainage when in use
#10 Travelers who have to fly foreign carriers should have all their affairs in order. They are really risking their lives.-by txrefugee
Some already, apparently do, even on the infamous MH370:
MH370 search: Government streamlines investigation team, ongoing efforts
“As per ICAO standards, Malaysia will also appoint an independent ‘investigator-in-charge’ to lead an investigation team and the team will include three groups,” Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussien said in a press conference Sunday.
The three groups will comprise an airworthiness group, which will look into maintenance records, structure and system of the airline; an operational group, which will examine flight recorders operations and meteorological aspects of the investigation, as well as a medical and human factor group, which will look into psychological and pathological aspects as well as survival factors of those on board the plane.
So that’s what they mean by “streamlining” —
It’s about to go from bad to worse — before it’s over the pilot’s role in this may be all but forgotten.
Anybody who flies to a Muslim country is taking a giant risk.
BTW which of these those three groups will be in charge of investigating the mangosteens and their roll in all of this???
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