Posted on 03/11/2014 11:13:53 AM PDT by tcrlaf
We had Somalia in mind personally.
Malaysia airlines is a done deal. Over and done with.
The transponder can be turned off by the pilot or anyone in the cockpit that knows how to do so.
It used to be turned on at the end of the runway just before departure. However, the FAA now recommends it be turned on before start of taxi, so aircraft is visible to ATC surveillance systems while on the airport.
You are also supposed to put the transponder briefly into "standby" mode whenever changing the ATC-assigned transponder code. This prevents an inadvertent alert if the transponder is briefly set to 7500, 7600, or 7700 -- various emergency codes.
“Because Myanmar is hard to spell.”
(Obscure Bullwinkle reference)
There are thousands of flights with muslim pilots which go off without a hitch each day.
Egyptair 990 went right off the hitch and into the bottom of the Atlantic with a muslim pilot. Don’t discount sudden jihad syndrome as a possibility here. Wouldn’t be the first time.
****So then, based on a plane full of gas, it could’ve flown 8-10 hours off course and end up crashing at the Southern part of the Indian Ocean, near Antarctica....****
No evidence so far that it did, in fact, crash.
That is why it seems so mysterious - everyone believing this was an accidental or deliberate downing or ‘crash’ in the ocean or on land.
Maybe not.
If your plane
Just went away
And you searched
Both night and day
On Islam
Your hopes will pin
More specific:
The Iranians
BURMA SHAVE
There is: RADIO. Planes carry them too.
Hard to believe they could take over a cockpit without a single radio message. Also hard to believe a plane can be stolen without anyone seeing it on radar or spotting it? Sounds like massive explosion with no large debris. I personally think the remnants of that plane is at the bottom of the ocean. They may never find it.
Or maybe as someone suggested the plane will be repainted and emerge here in some ugly way.
The Maldives... Islamic leaning island chain south of India, 2000 miles from Malaysia, 7 total airports, atleast 2 of which could easily handle this plane.
I am of the opposite opinion; the more I hear, the more I think it was a hijacking.
Was one of the Passengers named John Locke?
Remember, this isn’t America. Just being close to the ground doesn’t mean you are close to cellular service.
or a facebook message...
Not if your communications aren’t working (electrical, I.e.).
I watch a lot of Air Disasters and the like. It’s very informative. Anything goes.
I couldn’t make it to the US from there. Air traffic is too tightly controlled.
If there was a breach in the fuselage causing everyone to die, that could explain it (ala Payne Stewart)
There is such a technology, and it’s called ‘satellite phones’. The odds of one person on board having one out of 200 passengers is slim, but if someone flies a lot there might be one.
“The noise in downtown NYC the day of 9/11 when the first passenger plane flew over (right down 5th Avenue) at building top height was deafening.”
That noise also had hundreds of square miles of glass to echo off of.
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