MH370 pilot 'chief suspect' in case of foul play: Report

Times of India ^ | June 22, 2014 | PTI

[cynwoody]

My guess as to the island on his computeror is New Amsterdam:

I don't see any airport there. Just a tiny village at the northeast corner.

It doesn't look like the topography would be very favorable to constructing an airport.

[Uncle Chip]

Actually the liberal mentality has been in charge of this investigation for the last 3 months — that mentality that blames inanimate objects for crimes rather than the people who operate them — like blaming guns for shootings and computers and planes for crashes.

No one’s ever to blame — no one’s ever at the controls — these things just have a mind of their own

[Uncle Chip]

I think that’s why he needed a simulator — to practice landing on topography like that or on a short strip of asphalt road or in a crabrun on the beach or in the waters just offshore.

The first investigators must have suspected this or gotten a heads-up from his computer — note their yellow NTSB flight path. It ends up right at New Amsterdam — right on the last Inmarsat arc:

https://www.facebook.com/178566888854999/photos/pcb.740971779281171/740971732614509/?type=1&theater

And IIRC early on there was a significant air and sea search of the waters right there.

He may not have made it but it doesn’t mean that he didn’t try — that is, if that is the island in his computer.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Are we really aware? Looks like the “That happened months ago, who cares?” crowd is already purging the plane from the memory of the low-information voter. If it didn’t crash, and was indeed hijacked to become a weapon, most will never remember it until after the crater. They’ll read about it somewhere behind beibers next folly and the kardashian divorce...just like zero...

[Uncle Chip]

https://www.facebook.com/178566888854999/photos/pcb.740971779281171/740971732614509/?type=1&theater

Red flight path to S28 E98.1 as MH370 flies @ 460mph would be 3336 miles from KLA.

Yellow flight path to Amsterdam Island S37.84 E87.55 as the MH370 flies @ 518mph would be 4230 miles from KLA and that path is here:

http://www.duncansteel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/V_2D_2.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Amsterdam

[Uncle Chip]

The Australian government started by searching near the northeast end of the seventh arc, partly because that location was consistent with an aircraft that was limping slowly through the sky because it was damaged, or one that had burned a great deal of fuel in altitude changes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/world/asia/new-search-plan-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-is-based-on-farther-controlled-flying.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

I don’t recall this search unless he is referring to the South China Sea search —

[Uncle Chip]

MH370 pilot’s wife breaks silence, confirms Zaharie’s voice from cockpit, says The Telegraph

https://my.news.yahoo.com/mh370-pilot-wife-breaks-silence-confirms-zaharie-voice-134146905.html

So are the Malaysian investigators now going to call her a liar or tell her that she doesn’t know her own husband’s voice???

[Jaded]

Did they look ON the island? Wouldn’t that be fun?

[Uncle Chip]

I hope so —

But my guess is that they realized that he did not have the fuel nor the time to get there and it would not have been possible to reach it by autopilot. So they searched the waters short of there and left it at that.