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yes that would be interesting but could be as simple as a mistress
It could be, but even that might give a little insight into what was going on with the pilot. The only thing people are focusing on is what happened or didn't happen on the plane. The Malaysian authorities haven't talked to his wife because, I believe I read, they want to leave her alone in her mourning. Who can say that someone on the ground somewhere doesn't have information about what happened.
To understand why suicide is unlikely, I feel common sense should be used.
If 1 million people die? How many are due to suicide compared to how many of those are due to an accident?
The pilot had no reason to commit suicide that anybody knows other than false rumors of an unhappy home.
There is every reason to suspect something went wrong that caused the plane to malfunction.
The oil rigger saw what he believed to be fire, did the pilot send off a flare announcing his suicide?
We don't know the rumors of an unhappy home are false. They were DIVORCED. Happy couples don't get divorced. It's pretty odd that a divorced couple would be living together, too. Was he living in denial trying not to let go? Did she have something on him?
What reason exists to suspect something went wrong? Any anomaly readings transmitted? Any radio comms? The oil rigger has been discredited as too far away to have seen anything.
Am I the only person that doesn't think the US wouldn't have at least one nuclear sub somewhere around Diego Garcia that May have already picked up the pings? You couldn't make up a better training situation than this.
I work with a coworker from Taiwan and we had a brief discussion on it this morning. He say's the theory coming from people in the region of Malaysia have good reason to believe that the captain was trying to negotiate with the government. He was an avid supporter of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim who had just been sentenced to 5 years hours before the flight took off for Sodomy. Remember, the captain had even reportedly told friends he was planning on attending this opposition leaders high profile trial before the flight.
Of course this would explain the words uttered by the captain "All right, good night" before he turned off all communications. Most likely the Malaysian government would not negotiate. Taking the plane up to 45,000 feet was a deliberate action to lose consciousness for everyone and let the plane fly till it ran out of fuel over the ocean.
The Malaysian government knew all of this, yet perpetrated a false "search" over areas where they knew this plane was not. The whole circus of bring in extra countries for help of the search was just another facade. Of course now, they believe to "think" it was in the waters close to Australia because they knew everything all along. They don't want it to get out that they wouldn't negotiate with the pilot, hence sacraficing all of the lives on board.
Taiwan is SUCH a rumor-mill! It's like the Soviet Union used to be: because the conventional news outlets only provided news about grain harvests and factory production, the populace relied on gossip as their news source. And old habits die hard. Taiwan's news isn't controlled by the KMT anymore, but people are hooked on their grapevine news source.
Occasionally, though, the rumors have the ring of truth.
No, I have asked a couple of times about subs. It seemed like they could search where planes and ships can't. But, I guess there's a lot of secrecy about the whereabouts of these.
For all the worse case scenarios listed, it still wouldnt explain why 2 pilots made zero effort to radio into ATC and say there was an issue considering this plane flew for many hours after it disappeared.
Helios 522 and the Payne Stewart jet clearly show how the crew and passengers can be incapacitated and the plane flies until it runs out of fuel. Neither of those crews communicated with ground control.
It could be, but even that might give a little insight into what was going on with the pilot. The only thing people are focusing on is what happened or didn't happen on the plane. The Malaysian authorities haven't talked to his wife because, I believe I read, they want to leave her alone in her mourning. Who can say that someone on the ground somewhere doesn't have information about what happened.
The press and world governments seem fairly nonchelant about possible terrorism as well. They would have raised alerts on that. I'm inclined to believe it wasn't terrorism. Could still be a rogue hijacker with knowledge enough to pull this off. You'd have to look at each person on that plane and determine who'd have the knowledge and experience to fly a plane. Turning off a transponder is enough itself, but the flight path, specifically, is what I'd like to determine why that was available to be inputted. Was that available as a preprogrammed path, or was it a spur of the moment thing? Would any flight manual recommend such a path for any reason?
Instead of manually operating the plane's controls, whoever altered Flight 370's path typed seven or eight keystrokes into a computer on a knee-high pedestal between the captain and the first officer, according to officials. The Flight Management System, as the computer is known, directs the plane from point to point specified in the flight plan submitted before each flight. It is not clear whether the plane's path was reprogrammed before or after it took off.
Nothing explains why there would be a need to have this flight path available to the flight crew so that a plane would fly over the middle of the ocean. Doesn't seem like there would be any reason for doing that. The plane avoided all radar and just disappeared. That's seven or eight keystrokes in an "emergency" situation. Whoever did that had to go through a lot of steps to take this flight path.
Amazing though isn't it that one can tell the close location of another across the entire USA (and I bet similar overseas) yet something like that isn't included for airliners carrying hundreds of people?
I get the differences between the technologies used with mobile data and so on and that needed to track planes but can it really cost that much as to be unaffordable? We pay fees for luggage, food, drinks and movies but fitting airliners with the technology needed is beyond the means to do so?
Then, the airlines themselves allow multi million dollar jets with hundreds of customers on board to take off where the pilot could possibly turn off vital system when the UPS, Fed-Ex and DHL trucks everywhere are tracked to their locations within a few hundred feet?
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Nothing explains why there would be a need to have this flight path available to the flight crew so that a plane would fly over the middle of the ocean. Doesn't seem like there would be any reason for doing that. The plane avoided all radar and just disappeared. That's seven or eight keystrokes in an "emergency" situation. Whoever did that had to go through a lot of steps to take this flight path.
So hypoxia wouldn't apply.
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