Posted on 07/01/2014 6:55:01 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Investigators probing the disappearance of Flight MH370 have discovered possible new evidence of tampering with the plane's cockpit equipment which experts believe could be part of an attempt to avoid radar detection ....
A report released by Australian air crash investigators shows that the missing Boeing 777 suffered a mysterious power outage during the early stages of its flight ....
The plane's satellite data unit made an unexpected "log-on" request to a satellite less than 90 minutes into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, according to the report.
The report says the log-on request - known as a "handshake" - appears likely to have been caused by an interruption of electrical power on board the plane, which experts believe could be part of an attempt to avoid radar detection.
"A log-on request in the middle of a flight is not common," the report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said.
"An analysis was performed which determined that the characteristics and timing of the logon requests were best matched as resulting from power interruption," the report was quoted by the British daily as saying.
David Gleave, an aviation safety expert from Loughborough University, said the interruption to the power supply appeared to be the result of someone in the cockpit attempting to minimise the use of the aircraft's systems.
The action, he said, was consistent with an attempt to turn the plane's communications and other systems off in an attempt to avoid radar detection.
"A person could be messing around in the cockpit which would lead to a power interruption," he was quoted as saying....
"By messing about within the cockpit you could switch off the power temporarily and switch it on again when you need the other systems to fly the aeroplane," Gleave said....
(Excerpt) Read more at ndtv.com ...
oooooo....imagine that!
At least one of the countries (if not more) turns off some radars at night, or so the media has said.
Here’s one:
Peter Marosszeky, from the University of New South Wales explained that someone must have intended the power interruption because for power to be interrupted without an entire power failure, someone had only removed power from selected systems on the plane.
“It would have to be a deliberate act of turning power off on certain systems on the aeroplane. The aircraft has so many backup systems. Any form of power interruption is always backed up by another system. The person doing it would have to know what they are doing. It would have to be a deliberate act to hijack or sabotage the aircraft.”
Possible old evidence is they were clueless about the plane that night. Possible new evidence is they are still clueless. That or they knew from the start exactly what happened minute by minute and they’ve covered it up.
a missing plane ?
seriesly...
Do you really think that Australia, China, US, Malaysia, etc. would have spent Millions of dollars and man hours searching the Southern Indian Ocean for 2 months if they thought the plane went north to Asia?
I love a good conspiracy too, but the real evidence points to a crash at sea because of the actions of one of the pilots or an electrical failure onboard.
You can never trust eye witnesses.
“Do you really think that Australia, China, US, Malaysia, etc. would have spent Millions of dollars and man hours searching the Southern Indian Ocean for 2 months”
No more ridonkulous than the Malaysians searching the South China Sea for a week of precious time when they knew the a fact the plane had crossed back over the peninsula due to their own military radar
It was kept quiet for a number of reasons. Mainly because admitting that a plane could fly that close to Chinese airspace undetected is very embarrassing.
No he didn’t
We did not act like we were in a war with islam. We acted like 9-11 was directed by Afghanistan.
The US kept marching to the House of Saud’s orders.
The next time you do that pack a parachute in your carry-on bag and it will steady your nerves.
Remember: carry-on — don’t check it in baggage.
Every advanced aircraft I've flown in the last 5 years (747's,777s,A380s,A330s) have had "sky phones" on them.In a scenario like the one you describe *someone* would have been able to call a relative...call *someone*...telling them what was happening.
Well that's Malaysia for you. And their charade continued until they were confronted by Inmarsat -- and then the jig was up.
There is nothing ridonkulous about Inmarsat data -- it's amazing.
“In a scenario like the one you describe *someone* would have been able to call a relative...call *someone*...telling them what was happening.”
I did not know that. Haven’t flown since 9/11 and won’t be ever again unless my husband or kids’ lives depended on it.
BTW, during 9/11 my brother was in France, and got stuck there for a couple weeks due to the flights being grounded. That sucked. He will not be going out of the country again.
There are many powerful reasons why I didn't go Airborne during my heroic (cough,cough) Army career.I think I'd feel better with a Koran in my carry-on!
Then why were there no calls???
I was responding to a scenario where at least one person,apart from the captain (assuming he was the perp),would have been aware that there was something seriously wrong.
You don’t remember the term “The war on terror”? That was definitely a Bush-e era slogan. I’m not saying his war was brilliant, but at least he called out terrorists and not making friends with them like Obama.
The Flight of the MH370 plugging in the new info from the report:
16:41 — KLA N2.73E101.71 to points of turnaround — IGARI [17:19] then to N7E103.5 [17:21] Transponder and ACARS dismantled. [325 miles]
17:21 — N7E103.5 — begins heading west to Penang Island.
17:49 — N5.3E100.3 — Penang Island [250 miles] then turns NW.
18:22 — N6.6E96.3 — [289 miles]. The point where Malaysian military radar had last contact with plane possibly because power was cut there, plane came off autopilot, and went dark to thwart what radar there might be in preparation for his upcoming turn. Begins flying manually for the next 7 minutes.
18:25 — Log On Request automatically activates to restore power just cut 3 minutes. With power off would this be where hypoxia overcomes everyone onboard but the pilot???
18:29 — N6.85E95.45 [Turning Point South] Plane flown manually for 7 minutes and 61 miles to this point with power off and then the power kicks back in at this point for its turn South. [From 17:21 to 18:29 — 600 miles [250+289+61] averaging 530mph].
18:39 — Unanswered ground to air telephone call #1. Was it triggered by Log On Request??
19:41 — S2E93 — 634 miles @528mph
20:41 — S9.75E92.5 — 536 miles @536mph
21:41 — S17.5E92 — 536 miles @536mph
22:41 — S25.25E91.5 — 536 miles @536mph Autopilot disengaged at about this point to change speed and/or direction.
23:14 — Unanswered ground to air telephone call #2. Was it triggered by a Log On Request that’s not listed???
24:11a — S36E90.5 — 745 miles @496mph [same direction but slower speed]. Total to this point 3895 miles.
24:11b — S30E97.5 — 527 miles @351mph [eastward and slower speed to center of the search area]. Total to this point 3677 miles.
24:11c — S27.5E100 — 583 miles @389mph [eastward and slower speed to northeast part of search area]. Total to this point 3733 miles.
24:19 — Log On Request — last communication — power off at end of flight.
There is an outside chance that those differing ground speed MPH *COULD* be the same in-the-air MACH numbers, based on different winds and altitudes.
Dunno.
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