Posted on 03/26/2014 6:56:23 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Except the plane could not maintain a cabin altitude of less then 10k feet at that altitude, requiring supplemental oxygen.
No worries...
Sheila Jackson Lee will make sure something like this never happens again.
/s
Now he tells authorities!
The people who write these articles clearly have zero understanding of hypoxia and aircraft pressurization.
RE: Cabin pressure. If the cabin looses pressure those masks will automatically drop down. Not knowing the workings of a 777 I don’t know if the pilot can shut off cabin pressure since the engines supply the oxygen through compressors. If he was able to turn off cabin pressure and the standby oxygen is depleted, at 40,000ft you’ll last about 15-20 seconds.
Exactly right. If it was indeed a terrorist attack that brought down the plane would you want to be the Malaysian government facing Chinese officials to tell them that? A fall guy is a better option for now as long as they can’t find the plane. Is it me or does it seem that the Malaysians are in no hurry to find that plane and its black box?
...and with flight attendants having a code to enter the cockpit...
First off, the human body can tolerate altitude up to ~18 to 20,000 feet without hypoxia being an issue, i.e. no supplimental O2 required. But even that aside, the pressure is controlled by an electronic relief valve that can be set to higher or lower equivalent altitudes by the captain. The only issue becomes the pressure differential that the pressure shell is designed for. Since the service ceiling of the 777 is ~42,000ft I would assume they intended the shell to be able to handle a normal cabin pressure at that altitude.
This was discussed by aviation experts as having occurred at the limit of the range of Kuala Lumpur’s radar.
It was explained as a radar error.
We may never know for sure; the black boxes’ data have been overwritten for that event.
Exactly! Did this so-called friend just crawl out of a hole and realize his friend’s plane had gone missing and presumed crashed?
Really?
I’m not buying this story.
There’s also a very, very narrow flight envelope at that altitude. Which is why it is above the aircraft’s flight ceiling (stall danger).
“We’ve got satellites that can read Russian license plates from 200 miles up - pretty hard to hide a large plane on the ground without ever being seen”
That’s one of the things that’s so troubling. A license plate on the ground is infinitely smaller than the 72 ft. piece of floating debris that was picked up by satellite, yet it still hasn’t been identified. What the heck is going on here?
I probably saw/heard the same interview. Very, very narrow flight envelope.
However, I also heard the climb rate reported by the radar was impossible by a commercial aircraft.
Without the data, who knows.
that’s correct, i’m just assuming it ran out of the fuel in the end and crashed.
I thought the recorders only record the last half hour. I’m not sure that in the scenario painted they can help pinpoint the cause. The cause of the crash would be running out of fuel...
People do not understand how devastating and horrible divorce is and demand that those going through it “Move on.” And go to silly psychologists who say dumb things like “Love yourself.”
So, now the lives of all passengers, their loved ones, this pilot’s wife and kids are all ruined.
Those interested and having the time might want to check out this forum/thread
And here is some information on the ‘Inmarsat ping data analysis’ (insufficient for me):
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=740971779281171&id=178566888854999
If I were the Malaysian PM, I would rather tell the Chinese PM that a terrorist or fire or mechanical error took it down, than tell him that their pilot with women problems went crazy and diverted the flight, killed everybody in the first 23 minutes, and then flew the plane for 7 hours into the south Indian Sea.
Upset pilot tanked the plane? Why not? It’s just as credible as the other “theories” out there with zero proof & all speculation.
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