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One needs a user's manual on 777 to find out exactly what breaker would control that function, and whether it is also controlling something else that the pilot would rather not disable.

Luckily, you have a fully trained muslim pilot, who also has a 777 simulator in his home. Great place to practice evasive routes, figure fuel burn to alternate locations, and what luck! He would have access to such a manual that you suggest.

I would also like to know if they took on excess fuel before launch. Typically 10% of excess fuel is wasted hauling it's own weight around, so airlines are keen to fuel more accurately for the weight, distance, weather, etc. and IFR reserves for each leg or cycle of a flight, so they don't waste the cost of excess fuel load. A bunch of excess fuel over what was needed for the particular mission would certainly implicate the pilot in whatever plot.

That is a key piece of info I've not seen anywhere.

I've been reading elsewhere theories about the company that had all the employees on board, fast-something or other. They were developing very interesting electronics. Also, four of the five patent holders for some product of this company that held the potential to earn billions... were on board. Leaving ONE patent holder, and a huge incentive to disappear the rest. AND the patent was just approved. One owner stands to suddenly get very rich.

I've been reading elsewhere theories about the company that had all the employees on board, fast-something or other.

That would be Freescale. I have been told that they are a big name in car racing. However I believe that they lost their chance in the CPU/MCU market. Perhaps they can make it up somewhere else.

Also, four of the five patent holders for some product of this company that held the potential to earn billions... were on board. Leaving ONE patent holder, and a huge incentive to disappear the rest. AND the patent was just approved. One owner stands to suddenly get very rich.

That "owner" is Freescale itself, a legal entity. Human inventors do not own their inventions that they made while on the clock, and while being paid to invent. All they get is their names on the patent. One could argue that some finer details of the invention may be lost, but it took YEARS to go through the USPTO, and by now that invention is either in products, or won't ever be. Here is one example; look for the "Assignee" field. Businesses are very well aware of the danger of employees quitting, dying, or changing loyalties. So there are measures to counteract that, to the extent that in some companies an individual worker does not mean anything. Foxconn may be the ultimate example of that.

I've been reading elsewhere theories about the company that had all the employees on board, fast-something or other. They were developing very interesting electronics.

Freescale Semiconductor? They are based in Austin and have 23,000 employees worldwide. They had 20 people on MH 370 — 12 Malaysians and 8 Chinese.

Inventors and patent holders are not the same. Normally, if these guys invented whatever while working for Freescale, then Freescale would be the assignee, and there would be no opportunity for the surviving inventor to become extraordinarily rich as a result of not having to share the royalties, which would flow to Freescale, as assignee.

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Cyber Liberty,

Any light you can shed on this: “...I’ve been reading elsewhere theories about the company that had all the employees on board, fast-something or other. They were developing very interesting electronics. Also, four of the five patent holders for some product of this company that held the potential to earn billions... were on board. Leaving ONE patent holder, and a huge incentive to disappear the rest. AND the patent was just approved. One owner stands to suddenly get very rich.”