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I wasn't thinking about the wreckage. If it did break up in air, there should be 300+ seat cushions floating around...
Someone said the 777 was made to land on water, once. This plane is very poor at water landings due to the giant engines under it. It's gonna pitch down hard when it smacks the water
Yes, turbo props are very loud and when they decrease the pitch at altitude they get very quiet compared to take off. Also, they like to shake a lot. I never vomit on planes but the shaking in a Dash8-300 on take off one time got me quite close. The combo of the vibration and the turbulent Virginia air made it really bad. They are also loud if they choose to use reverse pitch and the throttle adjusts to slow the plane down on their descent. That's a weird thing to hear when you are descending and you can see the ground, engines are increasing, but plane is forcefully slowing down. It makes a weird whirring sound, too.
Funny story, I was on an A321 near the back. There was a mom and daughter and I was told the daughter is a Disney Star from one of the tv shows (She was caked in makeup, sad). While cruising, i was waiting for the rear lav to open and she was asleep with her head back and her mouth wide open. I wanted to take a funny picture but decided against it. And it was night time so the cabin was quite dark.
There are some crazy developments in this story:
Malaysia plane may have had transponder shut down deliberately
http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/21970784/malaysia-rejects-jet-debris-i…
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This missing flight deal is a real conundrum.
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I just bought a FC ticket with US Airways last month to head back up to the Northwest this summer.
Hopefully that shit don't happen again.
On both trips take offs, the bottom of the propeller circle was making a blue smoke. I told the FO after the second trip about it on the gate and he didn't say it was normal, but he did say that nothing was alerted on the instrument panel. I took that as we know it blows oil out of the propellers. After thinking about it for some time, I remembered seeing a maintainence worker drive a truck up to the plane before the first flight and poured a few cans of oil into one of the engine pods. Maybe that's what was burning off? It was a very blue smoke.
It's a big puppy
http://www.businessinsider.com/missing-flight-hijacked-2014-3
A Malaysian official said investigators concluded the missing Malaysia Airlines flight was hijacked and steered off its original course, the AP reported late Friday evening.
From AP:
The official, who is involved in the investigation, says no motive has been established, and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
The official said that hijacking was no longer a theory. “It is conclusive.”
Really? then this resource is the only one to know this.
NYT
That is a crazy altitude for that plane. Would the cabin been able to keep pressure? What was the purpose of taking it to that altitude? Getting everyone to pass out?
Why did the plane go off radar? Just because the transponders and other communications equipment went dead, doesnt mean that the plane still wouldnt show up all over radar. That plane would have been just as easy to track as ever. Something doesnt add up here.
And what of the information that is leaking out that there were a ton of pasengers on that flight that were engineers for worked for Freescale Semiconductor in Malaysia? This company is state of the art and has many divisions, including military. They do nearly all of Intel and AMDs work. So here we have two countries, Malaysia and China, with a top flight electronics engineering firm, Freescale semiconductor, and 20 missing engineers on a vanished plane. Something to chew on for sure here.
Two people got on that flight with stolen passports....or did they? Any final confirmation on that. I only know what the initial reports were.
I read that supposedly on lightradar24, it showed an adjacent aircraft heading (AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED!) north east, prior to the disappearance. Anyone else heard this?
And then there is always the chance that this is a false flag event. Anything to distract us from whatever fucked up shit Obama has us doing over in Crimea. A far fetched theory I know. Im just throwing things out there. In time, the dust will settle, and we will know what was a reach and what is more likely.
But the first question we should ask is, how did this plane vanish from radar so easily? Or did it?
Freescale Semiconductors. Supposedly 26 of their engineers were on that flight. This could be more of a kidnapping than a hijacking. Technology theft.
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Large numbers of group members of a company, brand, group, etc have been taken out by plane crashes.
But Ive since had my radar inquiries answered on another forum.
They were outside civilian radar and all they had was the transponder to coordinate their position. And we wont know the military radar details because it's not like the Malaysian govt wants all their neighbors to know their exact radar capabilities.
So now my focus is on motive. And Im trying to flush out the Semiconductor link.
It could be any number of countries in need of their tech. Including our own.
Anything is a possibility right now. Im just in the "asking questions" phase of things.
Sent everyone on a wild goose chase while they cleaned up the wreckage?
They have plenty of remote airports/places to land it.
They would also have no reason to take credit for it and they'd keep it secret.
Motive:
I could totally see MISIRI getting the terror wing of Hezbollah to get someone to carry out an operation like this.
I wouldn't put it past them is what I'm saying.
If MISIRI wanted someone bad enough they'd kill/kidnap all those people just to get to their target.
Whether that target could be an asset they could torture to work for them,or pry info out of,or even a target that did them wrong.
I wonder if there were any scientists on board plane and their not saying anything?
The only thing is...
To get to Iran taking the sea route,they would have had to of went through Indian airspace without being detected I believe.
I guess flown very low.
They could have landed that plane in Bam or even closer to the water in Chabahar/Konarak.
Cover it up with netting to hide it or even blow it up into pieces and sink it in Chabahar Bay.
Maybe India shot it down?
Who knows...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/mh370-search-for-missing-m…
One thing it notes, is that for it to have gone North, and head to Iran, it would have had to fly thru some seriously heavily militarized air space. Even at low altitude, the chances of it making thru without detection is pretty freaking slim. Super dense air defense systems.
They say it could have turned back around and headed south. Which seems odd because that would mean it went back into civilian Malaysian radar range.
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