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:
Guess we shouldn’t pick up what is ours?
No need to hypothesize. Here's a photo of it:
Quoth AirDailyX.net:
Being that AirDailyX is a flight simulation based website, I thought I would share that MH370 Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a very big flight simulation enthusiast with a set up so nice, it would make many of us jealous. It's always a bit warm to the heart to see real world commercial pilots enjoy the hobby we all so dearly love.
Someone really needs to get at that simulator, and see exactly WHAT he has been simulating... I hate to blame anyone for loving aviation, because its my hobby as well. But who else could possibly disappear and fly four hours undetected better than someone who EVERYONE admits new the plane inside out...
Thank You. Do we know if radar was involved?
Interesting.
Love to know what data concerning his ‘practice’ activities the authorities got from that setup.
What and question the good girls? Think that is done ...
Reportedly, it uploads engine performance data over a satellite link every thirty minutes, probably including air speed and altitude, but, alas, not lat/lon nor heading.
Yes, we only know what goes up, must come down.
Here’s a link:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/technology/systems_tech/monitoring_systems.jsp
My SIL works for RR aircraft engine engineering.
I’ve requested a briefing but he’s “busy” currently.
The photo is of a high-end hobby setup. Less capable than the professional simulators pilots train on, but still pretty neat.
To me, it indicates Captain Shah was gung-ho about his profession, not that he was into anything nefarious.
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Probably. Maybe he was into flying 747s through giant croquet hoops.
Apparently you missed the comment about US vs. international.
God, I don’t know ... but I’ll put on the party dress.
Or landing and taking off from runways not up to spec for the heavy he normally flew. Ie, hot takeoffs and landings. Lots of ‘almost’ long runways in that area that were used to deliver supplies post ‘04 tsunami.
Anyone remember the pro golfer who died in a plane that had anesthetized/killed everyone on board?
That plane flew a long time without any live humans. Much smaller than this 777, but it could still be a massive accident.
I also saw something along those lines on Air Disasters or such. Don’t recall the flight, etc, but think it was Asia. Might have been a fire in the hold that put fumes up in the passenger compartment and caused many to pass out.
Here’s a link:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/technology/systems_tech/monitoring_systems.jsp
My SIL works for RR aircraft engine engineering.
I’ve requested a briefing but he’s “busy” currently.
"The Trent engine can be fitted permanently with about 25 sensors. The figure below shows the typical parameters measured for EHM [Engine Health Management]."
If the phone is receiving a signal, a tower is logging where it is. The tower is, at the very least, logging that it is the one being pinged by the phone. If three towers are getting any ping at all, the phone company knows where the phone is within a few feet.
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Look at post #13.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_crash
Perhaps because,as the article stated, it moved from Cuba to Vietnam recently?
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