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Did Flight 370 continue for four more hours in flight?
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Posted on 03/13/2014 11:13:25 AM PDT by chessplayer

The search for missing Malaysia Air Flight 370 may become a lot more complicated, if a new theory by American investigators turns out to be true. At first, the assumption was that the flight ended when the transponders stopped communicating; then military radar suggested the plane may have turned back and reached the other side of the Malaysian peninsula. Now data from engine transmissions to maintenance databases suggest the plane remained in operation for four hours after its last confirmed transmission — which makes the potential search range all but endless:


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; malaysia; mh370; waronterror
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They might as well end the search. There aren't enough planes and ships in the world to adequately search an area that large.
1 posted on 03/13/2014 11:13:25 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

2,200 miles


2 posted on 03/13/2014 11:15:34 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: chessplayer

...and just think of all the Fuel burned by the Planes & Ships trying to find the Airplane!!

Shhhhhhh... don’t tell the Greenies, they’ll make the search stop for Climate Change’s sake!!

/sarc


3 posted on 03/13/2014 11:17:25 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Elections have consequences - NOW LOOK what we have to deal with...)
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To: no-to-illegals
Family members have already said that cell phones are working but go unanswered. Isn't it possible that just one of those phones have the GPS enabled?
4 posted on 03/13/2014 11:18:21 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: The_Victor

Yes


5 posted on 03/13/2014 11:20:05 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: The_Victor

I heard the problem in that area is that advanced technology like gps on phones just don’t work. They use more WWII IRF technology and the recent sun-spots we got hit with may have caused them a problem.


6 posted on 03/13/2014 11:21:24 AM PDT by edcoil (Realism is only a socially accepted form of pessimism)
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To: no-to-illegals
They were hijacked and were on their way to Somalia and didn't make it all the way. Or they're in Shri Lanka or the Maldives.


7 posted on 03/13/2014 11:21:43 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Nothing is impossible thus I agree.


8 posted on 03/13/2014 11:22:57 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: chessplayer

This engine database thing is interesting. I wonder if it’s a satellite based system, which is non-directional. Also, if the databases have info, they may indicate engine operating parameters (RPM, fuel consumption), which my indicate some minimal information about flight conditions.


9 posted on 03/13/2014 11:28:54 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: no-to-illegals

Maybe it made it to Somalia...

Distance between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Mogadishu, Somalia

6266 km = 3894 miles

Boeing 777-200ER
Maximum Range

7,725 nautical miles
(14,305 km)
Typical city pairs:
London - Los Angeles
Tokyo - Sydney
Chicago - Seoul


10 posted on 03/13/2014 11:31:27 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Does either of those islands have a landing strip long enough to handle a 777?


11 posted on 03/13/2014 11:31:38 AM PDT by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: no-to-illegals

What do we actually have in Diego Garcia? I believe it is located about center on the above map to the WORDS “Seychelles” and “Andaman and Nikobar Islands”?


12 posted on 03/13/2014 11:32:09 AM PDT by bunster
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To: The_Victor

Folks — *IF* passengers’ cell phones and smart phones were/are still operating, then the GSM/CDMA NETWORK by itself can locate them to a CPE no larger than 1KM. That presumes of course they are in range of a compatible tower or three.

The GPS capability is not magic technology. It’s not needed to find a device, it just reduces the search radius.

The most discrete location services are good to a radius of about 9 metres on average. That’s LIS-hybrid.

But the device has to be enabled, has to be on, and has to be in range of a compatible cellular network and maybe a Wi-Fi AP or two.

The ‘ring’ these people hear when they call their relatives’ devices is not actually the ‘phone’ ringing, it is a network generated tone to tell the caller that the network is working to terminate that call on the called device.

In the US, generally if you call a device that is off, you’ll go straight to voice mail. Internationally, the network ring will start even as the ‘cloud’ tries to locate the device on various roaming networks.

Don’t buy into this crap.


13 posted on 03/13/2014 11:32:44 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: jimbo123

refuel ... ?


14 posted on 03/13/2014 11:32:55 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Dog

Some of us have hypothesized that the pilot had a 777 flight sim in his HOUSE to practice short landing and takeoff. Like this:

http://www.bellenews.com/2013/11/21/world/us-news/boeing-747-dreamlifter-cargo-lands-at-wrong-airport-in-kansas/

And it took off successfully as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swTjsxM7WW4


15 posted on 03/13/2014 11:33:40 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: The_Victor; no-to-illegals; jimbo123
I fully believe that the fate and location of 360 are known and have been known. There are surely political problems and problems of political correctness that must be addressed before the AC can be "found," I think. It will NOT be attributed to Jihad unless one of the parties, such as China, announces that and then there will be a lot of minimizing and calling it a one off crazy man's act. Or, it did land somewhere and no one is saying anything about that until a rescue operation is mounted.
If it, indeed, continued to fly then surely satellites picked that up and the flight path is known.
16 posted on 03/13/2014 11:36:14 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: bunster

It’s all right ... I do not know. Not pretending ...


17 posted on 03/13/2014 11:36:22 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: chessplayer

Past FR link from 2005:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486262/posts

Did this 777 have a bad history from 2005? read the attached link.

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2005/aair/aair200503722.aspx

In-flight upset; Boeing 777-200, 9M-MRG,

PILOTS on a Boeing 777 from Perth to Kuala Lumpur battled to gain control of the plane last month after an unknown computer error caused the aircraft to pitch violently and brought it close to stalling.

A flight attendant dropped a tray of drinks and another began praying as the Malaysian Airlines pilots fought to counter false information being fed into the aircraft’s autopilot system and primary flight display.

The glitch prompted plane manufacturer Boeing to issue a global notice to all 777 operators alerting them to the problem.

Flight MH124 was about an hour out of Perth when the aircraft began behaving erratically. The incorrect data from a supposedly fail-safe device caused the plane to pitch up and climb 3000ft (914m), cutting its indicated airspeed from 500km/h to 292km/h and activating a stall warning and a “stickshaker”.

A stickshaker vibrates the aircraft’s controls to warn the pilot he is approaching a speed at which the plane will have insufficient lift to keep flying


18 posted on 03/13/2014 11:38:17 AM PDT by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
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To: no-to-illegals
Nothing is impossible thus I agree.

If that's the case, the plane took an elevator to Neptune.

19 posted on 03/13/2014 11:38:18 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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Yes, that map keeps changing.


20 posted on 03/13/2014 11:38:56 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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