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New Theory Sees Possible Fire on Missing Jet
TIME Mag Online ^ | 03-19-2014 5:35 AM ET | Per Liljas

Posted on 03/19/2014 10:59:34 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

So when the co-pilot calmly said to the air traffic controller “Alright, goodnight” 12 minutes after the plane changed its course, this was during a raging fire in the cabin?

Makes no sense.


21 posted on 03/19/2014 11:14:18 AM PDT by slimjim12
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To: SkyDancer

“Theory time!”
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22 posted on 03/19/2014 11:15:04 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: gandalftb

Of course there is a problem when you are using a system for cars in a plane. Why didn’t they spend the money to use the APLANES system?


23 posted on 03/19/2014 11:15:13 AM PDT by GreyFriar ( Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: editor-surveyor

Ain’t it fun??


24 posted on 03/19/2014 11:15:55 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice.)
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To: Red Badger

What a crazy idea.


25 posted on 03/19/2014 11:16:17 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Red Badger

Remember the incident when the SEALs flew into Pakistan aboard helicopters, and probably a drone or two as well? You can ‘stealth’ a helicopter but you can’t make them quiet. LOL


26 posted on 03/19/2014 11:16:17 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Red Badger

You know, the microphone to call is on the yoke, you can steer and talk at the same time. With no communication from the pilot - whenever happened was intentional or happened in less then 2 seconds.


27 posted on 03/19/2014 11:17:12 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

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I’d like to invite you to my Arizona Ocean Front Retirement Home seminar!
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28 posted on 03/19/2014 11:18:25 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Red Badger; All
New info was put out last night by FOX and CNN.

The flight was at least 12 minutes into the new westerly course change before putting out their "good night" message at 0119 and at 0121 the transponder, etc were turned off (per FOX).

CNN Linky

29 posted on 03/19/2014 11:19:01 AM PDT by QT3.14
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To: slimjim12

Isn’t the latest news now that he commented BEFORE they changed course and not AFTER?


30 posted on 03/19/2014 11:19:12 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Red Badger

gee, those pilots must have been freakin psychic or something..already changing course and turning west 12 minutes BEFORE calling into traffic control and saying alright good night..can I ask these pilots for lotto numbers seems they can predict the future


31 posted on 03/19/2014 11:19:42 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mastador1
Perhaps only short term at the zoo.
32 posted on 03/19/2014 11:20:01 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: MarMema
If those fishermen in the Maldives really saw it then I would bet on Somalia. I didn't know where Maldives is other than somewhere in the Indian Ocean so I looked at the map and Maldives is midpoint in a straight line to Somalia.
33 posted on 03/19/2014 11:21:17 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: slimjim12
By the way, the aircraft course change could've been done by the aircraft's flight management software and NOT manually. The fire theory holds water (so to speak).
34 posted on 03/19/2014 11:21:18 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Meet the New Boss

Concur. A fire that is unknown could explain loss of systems while the pilots fly unaware but a course change preceding last verbal contact is hard to explain with that.


35 posted on 03/19/2014 11:21:29 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: gandalftb

I’ve read this comment from several posters. ACARS only reported, according to several pilots (online), at debark, gear up, and landing, unless a internal event triggers it earlier. Ie., the data transmission (not satellite handshake) would only occur if something out of the ordinary was detected.

Then from most timelines, the transponder went offline after the last call in. A slowly progressing system fault could cause a domino failure, if the initial failure triggered physical damage to the airplane.

I think it’s the Malaysians’ fault that this fact was distorted early on.

Plus, how do we know the fault was visible at the time the pilots called in? The Thai radar reports said the drift west was very slow. It was the Malaysians who claimed it all went nuts all at once. I don’t trust them. Their transportation minister looks like a deer in the headlights at the press conferences. He doesn’t want to be there...

To me, it doesn’t yet seem like anything is legally out of order at this point. Mostly, it’s the Malaysians trying to cover up that they don’t know what happened, because they were not paying enough attention to details of their airspace.

Ie., the confusion is being created over a simple failure of a complex system, because the Malays are executing a full press CYA operation since they didn’t deal with the airliners going off course in the first place.

This has been obvious ever since it was discovered that the plane actually flew over the island.

On my limb here, this plane is in the ocean, and every soul on it was dead before it touched down on the water.


36 posted on 03/19/2014 11:22:19 AM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: Red Badger

So the pilots didn’t radio in to report any problem?


37 posted on 03/19/2014 11:22:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Excellent!


38 posted on 03/19/2014 11:22:41 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1; Revolting cat!

Calypso Louis’ mothership abducted them.


39 posted on 03/19/2014 11:23:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Red Badger

New Theory Sees Possible Fire on Missing Jet

Time’s about a week late on this new theory.


40 posted on 03/19/2014 11:24:07 AM PDT by McGruff (They say the first casualty of war is truth)
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