Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Recent article from the Daily Telegraph of Australia.

On March 8 2014, around 1am, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared over the South China Sea. So what happened?

Only one conclusion makes sense. Someone hijacked the aircraft, turned all communication equipment off, then flew westward and reprogrammed the Flight Management System to the southern Indian Ocean, otherwise the aircraft would have flown itself to Beijing. Who did it? Only a qualified jet pilot could have inserted manually defined waypoints of latitude and longitude into the FMS, as there are no airways leading to the Southern Indian Ocean.

MH370, after seven hours flying, did not crash because if it ran out of fuel at 35,000 feet, one engine would quit first, since they are fed from separate fuel tanks, and the autopilot would have disconnected as it struggled to maintain control. The aircraft would then have spiralled into a near vertical dive and would have hit the water at near supersonic speed shattering into thousands of pieces.

A crash by a very large aircraft like the Boeing 777 would result in a huge amount of debris that would float for months and months. Even the life jackets still in their pouches normally stowed under the seats and seat cushions would float. So why, with the strong westerly winds the roaring forties north of Antarctica, has not even one item of debris washed up on the shores of Tasmania, the South Island of New Zealand or Chile?

MH370 did not crash. It was ditched under control, according to Boeing 777 flight manual procedures, that is gear up, into wind as slow as possible. Why do airline pilots and cabin crew practice ditching, life jacket donning and egress into life rafts etc if this was not feasible?

Only a pilot could have flown the aircraft via the reprogrammed FMS and autopilot for seven hours. There were only two pilots on board. Only one had the necessary experience and ability to make this happen. The jet airline pilot fraternity is almost unanimous as to who was responsible.

If the MH370 hijacker intentionally controls the aircraft for seven hours, into the remote Southern Indian Ocean then he must have been aware that he would die as there are no airfields within thousands of kilometres. This therefore suggests a preplanned suicide.

(By Byron Bailey, a professional pilot with 26,000 hours flying time. A former captain with Emirates, he holds Airline Pilot Licenses for Australia, USA, Europe, United Arab Emirates and New Zealand).

(11-05-2015 11:52 )bigglesworth Wrote:  MH370 did not crash. It was ditched under control, according to Boeing 777 flight manual procedures, that is gear up, into wind as slow as possible.

If that's true, it seriously compromises the search for the plane, because all the calculations of the plane's likely resting place are based on it having crashed when it ran out of fuel.

The painstaking search for MH370 has finally found wreckage on the ocean floor - just not the wreckage it was looking for. Objects were located which were deemed to be of interest, but closer inspection showed it was the wreck of a ship (previously unknown and uncharted).

This has a Marie Celeste feeling about it

(13-05-2015 19:55 )babelover48 Wrote:  This has a Marie Celeste feeling about it

Marie Celeste, was she not on Golden Girls?

I was liking it to the Marie Celste a famous ghost ship

What's that got to do with Golden Girls?

(13-05-2015 17:35 )CIA Snooper Wrote:  closer inspection showed it was the wreck of a ship (previously unknown and uncharted).

If it's uncharted it's probably an ancient wreck. All I can say is God bless the unknown sailors from the unknown ship who must have died in what's basically the middle of nowhere.

(14-05-2015 12:01 )admiral decker Wrote:  

(13-05-2015 17:35 )CIA Snooper Wrote:  closer inspection showed it was the wreck of a ship (previously unknown and uncharted).

If it's uncharted it's probably an ancient wreck. All I can say is God bless the unknown sailors from the unknown ship who must have died in what's basically the middle of nowhere.

True mate, horrific.

It looks like the recent events has affected the company's finances
"Malaysia Airlines is technically bankrupt but could break even by 2018 after cutting staff, selling surplus aircraft and flying less on some routes"