Look!, they went easy in reverse thrust, everybody check the Pacific!
Posted on 03/19/2014 8:22:10 PM PDT by rdl6989
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane have been found in the southern Indian Ocean.
Morning Ma. Got supper cooking in the CRACKpot so we freep all day!
In aviation accident investigation, it is usually referred to as 'cascading failures'.
Often the initial cause of an incident can be replicated by following the cascade, as different faults can cause precise cascade paths.
Morning
Just dry rubbed the ribs.
Only got about 2 hours sleep so I may be napping and running the late shift again seeing as the current activity is Down Under and 12 or so hours different.
OK
That’s the plan for next 24. Only thing to happen today will be the “oh yeah forgot to tell you abouts!”
Look!, they went easy in reverse thrust, everybody check the Pacific!
Yep.
I think you’re correct. Lets assume everyone died on board and this thing was just flying on autopilot for thousands of miles. Eventually it runs out of gas, and basically comes down nose first. I can’t imagine any piece 50+ feet long would be left.
If it WAS an attempted water landing the obvious question is... why would anyone fly a plane thousands of miles over open ocean when they knew they couldn’t reach land? Nothing about this makes sense.
Good news is the ships planes etc will continue moving toward the target area while we nap and thru their night ! By twilight we should start hearing feedback again
Will Geraldo be packin heat?
Yes, the $ trail can be obscured, too, but it takes just a bit more work. Ordering on line without delivery to a third party means it can be tracked to you...
Seems to me like everyone is just wasting time and adlibbing until March 24th. A date thats been a hot topic on the ROP “chatter boards” recently.
I would hate to be in New York next monday when air raid sirens go off. Of course that won’t happen as any jet approaching will have all the right codes and signals, right?
Or maybe Iran in a show of faith says yes the jet landed in Pakistan but we want to turn a new page in history and we are instead sending plane back to America, Do not shoot it down, has passengers and baby on board.
I thought I read on some other thread the transmitter on the ‘black box’ data recorder is only activated by reaching a G-force threshold. In other words, there’d need to be an explosion, or a hard crash for it to activate.
If the pilot(person in control) executed a wave top landing, maybe that’d minimize the experienced G-force, and the transmitter wouldn’t activate.
Take that info with a grain of salt. Hopefully anyone with more knowledge on the subject can correct me if I’m incorrect.
Also it’s still hard for me to believe this is what happened.
Spartan302,
What’s the significance of march 24th for the jihadis?
Some historical event?
Religious holiday & for whom?
Its what I picked up several days ago, cannot for the life remember where but should be easy enough to find, but some speculated the coincidental timing of the Global Nuclear Summit or something taking place March 24th at the Hague if I remember right, a target for the ROP?
But it was a reliable source that indeed the 24th was to be a “big” day.
Maybe you mean the ‘ELT’? I believe some of them have been set off in small aircraft by rough landings, with little or no damage to the airframe or injury to the people in them.
ELT - I think that’s what I read. Is the ELT contained within the ‘Black Box’ data recorder? (In the tail of the plane?)
When Sully landed in the Hudson, did the ELT transmit? Although they don’t have 20+ foot swells to deal with in the Hudson, and the plane stayed intact.
Just saw a graphic that shows the number of aircraft and ships searching the southern corridor(west of Australia) along with their country of origin.
Total of 12 countries searching, 25 aircraft, 6 helicopters, 20 ships. Yet the U.S. has only 1 aircraft and 0 ships contributing to the search in the Southern Corridor. Seems odd to me. Who knows.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10710250/Malaysian-Airlines-MH370-live.html
“If it WAS an attempted water landing the obvious question is... why would anyone fly a plane thousands of miles over open ocean when they knew they couldn’t reach land? Nothing about this makes sense.”
My point exactly! Wheter it be suicide or terrorism, why fly it way out into the remote Southern Ocean to do it? If it was a plane load of dead people - a la the unfortunate Payne Stewart - how does any piece larger than a car hood survive when the jet fuel runs out and it makes its final plunge? Also, there would have been a second course change from heading to the island airport to heading to the remote Southern Ocean, right? Why would the Captain or whoever change course a second time - presumably at cruising altitude as the fuel would have run out much sooner at lower altitude - to a very different heading if he was making for the nearest long runway airport? Why not descend on the second heading? None of it adds up!
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