Malaysian airlines plane missing

[chalga]

• The Wall Street Journal retracted a report that a system inside the plane’s Rolls-Royce engines had sent signals indicating it was still flying after losing contact with ground control. A different system sent the signals, the paper said.

 

U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flew for hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, based on an analysis of signals sent through the plane's satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of onboard systems, according to people familiar with the matter. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said investigators based their suspicions on signals from monitoring systems embedded in the plane's Rolls-Royce PLC engines and described that process.

[dosxuk]

Yep, the whole deal is just stupid. We all know the counter terrorism deal > if I flew a cessna plane and did something dodgy . .. I would be shot down. So, how on earth can a plane like that disappear??

 

The difference is, that once you're out over the ocean, there's nothing to track you passively, it all entirely relies on the aircraft itself providing reports of where it is. And if that system breaks or is turned off, you disappear, literally, off the radar.

 

Other large aircraft have disappeared completely without trace before.

 

U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flew for hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, based on an analysis of signals sent through the plane's satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of onboard systems, according to people familiar with the matter. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said investigators based their suspicions on signals from monitoring systems embedded in the plane's Rolls-Royce PLC engines and described that process.

 

Both Rolls Royce and Boeing have confirmed that their data from the aircraft stopped being transmitted at exactly the same time as the other radio systems failed. The data for both is transmitted using the same radio equipment as the rest of the aircraft's systems, there's not a special transmitter in each engine / component which can keep talking if the main radio systems are unavailable.

 

The fact that the WSJ are sticking with their story of the aircraft continuing to transmit data for four hours either means everybody else is lying, or somebody is mistaken.

[buck]

If the aircraft was in the air just 19 minutes from takeoff it woulld have flown about 110 miles, and reached an altitude of around 34,000 feet. Knowing the course ought to be able to pinpoint the point of impact. Total loss of elecrical power would not stop tthe engines, so a long glide into the ocean would not necessarily cause the 777 to break up.

[chalga]

The official said the Boeing 777-200 wasn’t transmitting data to the satellite, but sending out a signal to establish contact. Boeing offers a satellite service that can receive a stream of data during flight on how the aircraft is functioning.

[dosxuk]

If the aircraft was in the air just 19 minutes from takeoff it woulld have flown about 110 miles, and reached an altitude of around 34,000 feet. Knowing the course ought to be able to pinpoint the point of impact. Total loss of elecrical power would not stop tthe engines, so a long glide into the ocean would not necessarily cause the 777 to break up.

 

Except they checked those areas first and found nothing. Now we're looking at where did it go, and for how long, after the radios stopped working. And that's a very large area to search indeed.

 

Also, it reached 35,000ft, the tracking data is in the public domain. The authorities have confirmed that the last data they received is the same as the last data picked up by amateurs.

[chalga]

In the press conference today,they said that they were still withholding some details of the flight tracked by the military until more checks are made.

 

So the Malaysian authorities now are saying that the plane continued to 'ping' as in line with the Americans theory that the plane flew on,and it looks like the contact tracked by the Malaysian military after making a left turn was the missing plane.

[dvp82]

The plane was forced to land at Diego Garcia and a major terrorist standoff is currently taking place.

 

May as well chuck that in as a possible theory.

[Longcol]

The plane was forced to land at Diego Garcia and a major terrorist standoff is currently taking place.

 

May as well chuck that in as a possible theory.

 

Seems to be a popular theory on the David Icke Forum aka the Deluded Idiots Forum.

[dvp82]

Seems to be a popular theory on the David Icke Forum aka the Deluded Idiots Forum.

 

Maybe a little outlandish but 7 days in I don't think any theory can be discounted no matter how wacko is sounds.

[Longcol]

Maybe a little outlandish but 7 days in I don't think any theory can be discounted no matter how wacko is sounds.

 

Planes have crashed into the sea before. Can't recall any seven day terrorist standoffs post hi-jacking. A catastrophic mechanical or structural failure is still by far and away the most likely - like 99.99% against 0.01% - and am being over generous to the Diego Garcia "theory".