Featured Flight MH370 mystery gets deeper and weirder

From real people that actually fly these birds for their livelihood.

Deliberate theorist(s):

Post 94:

"I think its time to stop all those conspiracy or alternative theories. Lets face it, this was taken to south indian ocean on purpose, the purpose was to never be found again, to either commit suicide or purposedly to kill the peoplel on board. We will most likely never find out, as the CVR only records 2 hours, so whatever has happened in the cockpit at the time the transponder was turned off, will not be on the CVR. Most likely, the only way we could find out would be, if people on board remained alive and have made notes or videos on their mobiles, describing the event. My fear is however, that soon after the plan was programmed into the computer, the pilot has depresurrized the cabin and once oxygen supply has run out, everyone died of hypoxia. In that case I doubt anyone had the time to record the event until it was too late."

Post 142:

"After Indonesia was passed, someone had to enter either a manual heading SOUTH or had to enter a SOUTH waypoint/route. Someone had to be alive to do that. Argues against a mech fault."

Accidental theorist:

Post 103:

Well, I have to say while the southern crash arc didn't make sense to me earlier on, after speaking with a former 777 captain now 747 captain we were able to hash through a possible scenario that makes some sense.

Right after the handoff from Malaysian ATC, there is a complete failure of the cockpit electrics, panels all go dark, for a few seconds. This may be coupled with the cabin altitude warning or error.

Captain realizes that he has a problem that includes possible cabin and electrical brings the plane down to 12000 and turns back towards the peninsula in anticipation of making an emergency landing.

At some point in this the electronics come back up at least in part (comms are still out). Upon reaching 12000 feet the crew is able to stabilize the pressure (warning may have been a by product of the electrical failure/glitch)

At some point here in the crew realizes that the aircraft is flying too fast for the altitude. They then find that the throttles are non-responsive and the engines are just turning away. So they make the decision to climb back to 295 to keep the aircraft from overspeeding. As they realize they cannot land the aircraft with the engines running like they were.

Realizing that they have no control of the engines, they make the decision to basically wait the fuel out and then hope to glide to a suitable airport. The idea being that they would just circle Sumatra until such time as the fuel ran out. Once the fuel ran out the idea would be to pick the closest suitable airport and glide to it.

However, at some point along the northern track when the turned south to begin the circling Sumatra the controls became completely unresponsive and the aircraft continued on the heading until it ran out of fuel. With the pilots unable to do anything about it.

Circling Sumatra gave them two advantages. First is that they don't have to worry about terrain. Second it kept them close to shore, for rescue or ditching in the event that they didn't or couldn't make an airport.

This brings the entire thing to a single incident, with the rest being the chain of events that followed from it. Eliminates all of the bad people scenarios and leaves us with a very tragic accident. The worst part of this scenario is the possibility that everyone was well aware of what was happening."

Post 113:

"Out in the middle of the straight for a while 50-100 miles from land. When they realized that they had no control of the aircraft they were way too far away for any mobile phone to have a chance of hitting a tower.

It is a theory that we put together, that fits almost all the facts of the case. One other thought we had that I had forgotten to mention is that it could have been a complete no-win scenario. If the cabin did depressurize and then the engines were not responsive, it could be the choice between high altitude with Hypoxia but keep the plane in once piece or fly low and fast and risk the airframe coming apart."

 

This is the scenario most don't want to believe, including me.

Post 75:

"As suggested by numerous a.netters in previous threads, this has a pilot suicide (or more precisely a murder-suicide) written all over it. I believe the investigators have reached the same conclusion as the most likely theory, as both a hijacking or a mechanical failure appear to be very unlikely.

The scenario is something like this:
- the suicidal pilot incapacitates the other pilot in the cockpit
- transponder is turned off
- ACARS communications channels are turned off
- navigation to avoid primary radars until over the Indian Ocean
- ditching or crashing into the remote parts of the Southern Indian Ocean to conceal all the tracks

It is likely that the pilot depressurized the plane at some point of time to incapacitate the cabin crew and passengers. The cabin crew and passengers must have either been incapacitated or not realized that anything was wrong when flying over the Malay peninsula to prevent cell phone calls. The pilot might have incapaciated himself also at the same time and leave the plane on the autopilot, or the pilot was flying the plane until crash. The investigators can make an assumption on this based on whether the plane was flying a programmed route or hand-flown."

 

#Flight370: Chinese vessel arrived at where French satellite spotted suspected object, found a 15m whale carcasse; photo.

 

All I gotta do is take a look at my Governor.....he's a whale carcass:laugh:

guess whats on the menu at all the Chinese restaurants for the next coupla days.....:laugh:

 

...you should seek help...

 

Is this it?:

Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet finally 'found', 122 objects sighted in remote Indian Ocean

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Wow, scroll down check out the wind and wave action in that area over the past couple weeks:

Extreme Challenges for Investigators

Looks like any debris in that area should be getting closer to Australia the whole time.

 

....lol, you might want to be doing some 'mental preparation' d-CON...

 

...whew, talk about a die hard conspiracy theorist....

 

Maybe everyone on board is a hero. Something malfunctioned. Perhaps, as suggested prior, there was a problem with the lithium batteries that were being transported.
If the pilots knew the plane couldn't be saved upon landing and that attempting to do so would only injure those on the ground along with all of them being lost, so maybe everyone made the decision to take the plane as far away as possible from where it could harm others, and they just flew until it wouldn't go anymore. Maybe they turned off communications because it was known that they would be stopped from doing this or not believed...but they never thought the wreckage wouldn't be found after.

It makes more sense than anything else so far, if you only go by information released. They didn't find anything to suggest the pilots had anything to do with this. Stolen passports are common, and they surely did intense investigations on the person who provided the tickets and those associated with those two customers. Nobody else seems to have been of concern. Nobody has claimed this. It was carrying a potentially hazardous shipment. It did seem as if there may have been an attempt to land in Malaysia before going off again.

So as long as anything is possible, I personally consider "everyone is a hero" to be the most likely scenario now.

 

Thai satellite 'shows 300 floating objects'

"A Thai satellite has detected some 300 objects in an area of the southern Indian Ocean being searched for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The image was taken by the Thaichote satellite on 24 March, a day after images from a French satellite purported to show 122 floating objects."

 

All the facts? ROFL!

There's a whole lot of men and equipment involved in this search that's actually in reality a ruse intended to fool the jihadists into thinking that we've been fooled, don't cha think? Do you think this clever scheme is working, or do the jihadists see right through it? You would think that the more countries that get involved, the more convincing this stratagem will be, lol:

"In a statement on its website, AMSA said a total of six countries are now assisting in the search and recovery operation – Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Japan, China and the Republic of Korea.

It also said a total of seven military and five civil aircraft will be involved in today’s search activities.

One Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft from China departed Perth around 8am (Australian Eastern Daylight Time- AEDT) (5am local time) for the search area.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion aircraft NZ P-3K2 departed for the search area around 9.10am (6am local time).

A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P3 Orion scheduled to depart Perth around 11am (8am local time).

A US Navy P8 Poseidon is due to depart around 2pm (11am local time).

A Japanese P3 Orion is due to depart Perth around 3pm (noon local time).

A second RAAF P3 Orion is scheduled to depart for the search area around 4pm (1pm local time).

A Republic of Korea P3 Orion is due to depart around 5pm (2pm local time).

“Two civil aircraft have now departed Perth for the search area. The remaining three civil aircraft will depart for the search area between 10am (AEDT) and midday.

“A total of 34 State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers from Western Australia will be air observers on board the five civil aircraft,” AMSA said.

It added that HMAS Success and China’s polar supply ship Xue Long are now in the search area...."

 

You keep mentioning this aspect of the search as if you know something; how do you know that they are searching in the wrong direction? Where are you obtaining your 'drift data'?

Everything I've read indicates that they are indeed including 'drift data', or 'drift estimations', in their search efforts.

 

Why don't you contact AMSA (see their website) and tell them these things that you know? It might prove to be the break they've been looking for.

I'm a river rat, for real, no pretending. Where I'm located large sections of the [dammed] river flows into the prevailing wind. Floating debris has two opposing forces acting upon it within these sections, current and wind, and, depending which is strongest at any given moment is the determining factor in which direction the debris will drift. Nothing is for certain at all times. The only constant is that the strongest force at any given moment will be the one that determines drift direction.