Depressurizing the plane would cause the oxygen masks to deploy, and cause the cabin crew to go on oxygen with their masks and portable bottles.
The passengers would not have much of a supply, but the cabin crew could last awhile.
"...depressurize the aircraft..."
...knocking out anyone aboard who wasn’t wearing an oxygen mask....
Sounds fishy. Don’t they automatically deploy? No warming alarms?
Duh.
So this guy was a genius of disappearance, or just majorly lucky?
Not convinced. I can’t believe he wanted to totally hide his fate. Make it difficult, sure, but why care a lot about whether it’s found?
I mean, I can believe it, but I am amazed the plane has basically never been found, nor much of any debris. That is what puts a wrench in what was even intended.
While I do believe that the incident was the result of malicious action by the pilot, this theory can’t hold true as presented. At 35,000 feet, the temperature is around minus 60 Fahrenheit. Even with an oxygen mask, he couldn’t survive at that temperature for very long.
Could he have re-pressurized the plane after killing the passengers and other crew-members?
The communications were cut off from the cockpit. Only the pilot, or pilots could do that. According to the experts the wing flaps from the wing debris that washed up on the African continent indicated that the plane engaged in controlled descent. Meaning that somebody was in control and knew what they were doing. A true terrorist would have done his duty and crashed the aircraft into something to cause more damage, thus the theory of suicide is an obvious conclusion based on the limited amount of evidence.
I watched a program where the author of this theory was being interviewed... When asked ‘Why would the pilot commit suicide?’ his response was that looking at crash evidence was his expertise, and that they should ask somebody who deals with mental health issues.
The plane made a controlled descent and the likely pilot during such a maneuver would be the pilot, or pilots flying the plane. Maybe it was a suicide pact... And the fact is that we will never really know.
That theory is as good as mine. I think it was accidentally shot down by the Chinese over the S. China Sea........
He was a Muslim, nough said.
An interesting 50 minutes to watch. The guy affiliated with the 'official' failed Aussie government searches is still trying to defend their search strategy, but the other guys have a stronger case, backed up with real evidence: the confirmed bits of the (otherwise lost MH370) that have washed ashore. 'Official' scenario has bird fly deep in to Indian ocean until running out of fuel then making an uncontrolled 2 minute, terminally supersonic, nose dive into said ocean. Which would have fragmented the plan into tiny bits and left a large, at least initially floating debris field. Most importantly the pieces that have washed up lack the inevitable seeming damage that would produce. New theory is the perp Captain decompressed the plane, to kill all potential opposition, carefully dodged the local radar coverage after going silent and flying into the Indian ocean. But kept himself on O2, stayed alive until the end to try a sea landing. That would leave the plane intact or at worst in a few larger pieces which would more easily sink. Thus making it harder to find the plane. If your plan all along was to lose the plane forever this improves your chances. And what pieces have washed up DO show evidence of the kind of damage that strategy would produce. There are now searches going on a bit away from what the 'official' target zone would produce, although it wasn't clear to me whether they are precisely where the new theory predicts.
Another sick, homicidal moslem asshat.