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Interesting. If it had been done before it made that turn, then the plane that turned off the transponder/flew left was not MH370. The MH370 could have flown to Hawaii for all we know. (Although it would require a co-conspirator, and if had been done in the early stages then ATC would have noticed two places flying close.)
I've been wondering about something. If the cockpit filled with smoke and the pilots became incapacitated, what would be happening in the cabin? Would there also be fire or smoke in there, more or less at the same time, or would the passengers and flight crew first see smoke coming out of the cockpit door?
And would there be anything they could do if they saw the smoke?
Yeah I think the smoke would work it's way out. While the cockpit is locked and sealed, it's not airproof. Smoke will eventually get out anywhere. So, I expect some enterprising Colorado based airline to come up with a way to seal in a cockpit so the pilots' bong won't be noticeable to the cabin, as they aren't allowed to smoke on flights.
Sorry. Just need a little attempt at light hearted Cheech and Chong humor, during this devastating tragedy that is still unfolding.
It's not funny to contemplate passengers sitting there watching smoke come out of the cockpit and slowly fill the cabin, waiting to die. I hope someone who knows planes might weigh in on this.
The fact that the change in flight direction had been programmed into the computer is one factor that leads experts to believe the change in direction wasn't the result of some kind of mechanical failure or fire. The turn wasn't executed using the manual steering controls, they say. It was pre-programmed into the plane's routing computer. And the turn occurred at a mild enough angle that passengers wouldn't have noticed, according to investigators.
If there was fire, how could someone have calmly said "Alright, good night"? And no passenger tried to make calls?
Another reason that they feel sure there wasn't a fire or mechanical failure. And two minutes after the calm "good night", the transponder was turned off, just as the plane was entering a zone where Malaysia usually hands off its monitoring to Vietnam. Analysts think this was a deliberate move, someone turning of the transponder at just the moment where there might be a gap in radar and control tower coverage between the two nations.
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