[Yosemitest]

Please address what you think about the questions I put forth in comment #54
and HOW the answers to those questions might help us find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

I noticed that on the links you provided, the 777 has a really outstanding crab capability to land with main gear down and turn before the nose gear is down, to overcome crosswinds.
But the last two landings we of a 747 and not a 777.
The short landing was also outstanding in that last link.

[henbane]

Please address what you think about the questions I put forth in comment #54 and HOW the answers to those questions might help us find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
What was the most practiced route he flew with his simulator?
What was his most common practiced landing destination?
Does the government have that simulator to gleam all the history it can off of it ?

Those are exactly the questions on the minds of the Malaysian police as they--finally-- scrutinize the desktop computers (his laptop went with him to the cockpit) and the simulator in Captain Zaharie's house.

Perhaps we will never know what they found--but U.S. authorities involved in this search must demand these details.

Seems like a combination of three things may have caused him to snap:
1; One day before Flight 370, Zaharie was in the courtroom and witnessed the overturn of a succesful Appeal by his political hero for(allegedly trumped-up)charges of sodomy. Zaharie was outraged when he witnessed the Malaysian government-controlled High Court sentence said hero to 5 years in prison.
2; domestic problems coming to a boil with wife leaving Zaharie's house with his 3 kids
3; the approaching bankruptcy and closing down of Malaysian Airlines already brewing in his head.

Difficult to say just what Captain Zaharie had in mind when he took that outbound left turn, but suicide was not his intention--he rages to humiliate the present Government of Malaysia for ripping his beloved leader off the political chessboard.

And, By God, it's working!