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Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours
The Wall Street Journal ^
| 12:50 a.m. EDT Thursday, March 13, 2014
| Andy Pasztor
Posted on 03/12/2014 10:17:35 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: virgil
Why has Boeing been so quiet about their data for so many daze?
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:33:20 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: dalereed
Then it’s a conspiratorial situation where the re-directors were knowledgeable (aka Flight Crew?).
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:35:19 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Solson; virgil
So if this plane flew 4hrs after contact was lost, it was almost certainly hijacked.
And, it may have landed safely somewhere.
But, not demands? Is it now nothing but a bomb?
Or, did passengers and crew sacrifice themselves to keep it from being used as a bomb? This is going to be one hell of a story.
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:35:21 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Aria
Someone shut them off. As for radar, it didn’t disappear. The Malaysian military was capturing glimpses of it flying off the other way
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:35:21 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: Jet Jaguar
That plane is likely on one of those islands somewhere, in some secret hangar.
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:35:36 PM PDT
by
Rca2000
To: ElkGroveDan
So then the plane is probably stolen.
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:36:26 PM PDT
by
Aria
( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
To: Mariner
Does the article say how they KNOW this information? Telemetry downloads from the airplane's engines to their manufacturer, Rolls Royce, continued for five hours after takeoff. The transponder stopped transponding 41 minutes in.
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:36:28 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: Rennes Templar
So why did the transponder stop sending data? If on automatic, why not just follow the vector to the end of the time the engines stopped sending?
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:36:32 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(quotes)
To: Paladin2
I think there is a lot more ,a whole lot of people are quite about
To: Paladin2
Unless it was hijacked and the hijackers were experienced pilots.
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:38:08 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: Viennacon
Well, then the debris is a red herring. The plane cannot have flown on for several hours, and the debris from a crash end up back in that place, unless they doubled back to the exact location. None of it makes sense. Never mind Waldo, this is more like
Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:38:39 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: txhurl; nuconvert
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:40:33 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: kristinn
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:41:02 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: dalereed
If they were over 18,000 with no transponder would have set off ATC everywhere they flew and would have had intercepter jets after it. Does the Indian Ocean care about Class A airspace?
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:41:48 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: easternsky
"I think there is a lot more ,a whole lot of people are quite about"
I have wondered why the 50's of US TLA's haven't coughed up what they know or don't know.
No info, No future budget.
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:41:53 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: easternsky
“Sooooo where does that end them up??? Iran?”
You’re reading my mind. Like to see a map with the final fix as the locus, and see where 4 hours gets you
To: cynwoody
Telemetry downloads from the airplane's engines to their manufacturer, Rolls Royce, continued for five hours after takeoff.Then someone should know, at least roughly, where the plane. They are just not saying so as not to alert malfeasors.
To: Mariner
Here's what I found on the data.
Malaysian plane sent out engine data before vanishing
The missing Malaysia Airlines jet sent at least two bursts of technical data back to the airline before it disappeared, New Scientist has learned.
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This would suggest no concrete data is to hand. But New Scientist understands that the maker of the missing Boeing 777's Trent 800 engines, Rolls Royce, received two data reports from flight MH370 at its global engine health monitoring centre in Derby, UK, where it keeps real-time tabs on its engines in use. One was broadcast as MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the other during the 777's climb out towards Beijing.
As the engine data is filtered from a larger ACARS report covering all the plane's critical flight systems and avionics, it could mean the airline has some useful clues about the condition of the aircraft prior to its disappearance. The plane does not appear to have been cruising long enough to issue any more ACARS reports. It disappeared from radar at 1.30 AM local time, halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam over the Gulf of Thailand................
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:46:23 PM PDT
by
Girlene
(Hey, NSA!)
To: kristinn
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:46:32 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: cynwoody
It applies world wide.
No transponder I think they flew
vfr under FL18 and didn’t set off any alarms.
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posted on
03/12/2014 10:46:36 PM PDT
by
dalereed
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