MAS Flight Number MH 370

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Flummoxed.

Don't know where it is.

Read two reports today that I found odd.

One, that said passengers' mobiles are still ringing when called.

Second, A 777, 30 mins ahead of MH370, bound for Japan, made radio contact with someone in the cockpit of MH370.
They succeeded where others had failed.

What's going on?
 
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Phone still ringing apparently explained..

Other pilot comms not verified for sure it was the crew responding? Or the mumbling perhaps was their response due to hypoxia, see below..



http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines-mh370-contact-lost-98.html

Lots of great pilots on here and some weekend flight sim warriors lurking.

But seems now the military have started to admit they may have tracked the aircraft about an hour after. Hence they are now looking in Malaca straights.

Speculation moving away from terrorism. Perhaps severe power failure, why sudden loss off comms from AC back to ground. Or some kind of cabin pressure issue also(hypoxia and confusement), due to the lack of comms from crew.
 
Either a) Alien Abduction

b) rapid depressuristion/food contamination causing blackout of pilot(s)slumping over controls causing that mysterious turn…

c) Shot down by a MIG

b&c have been proved to happen before, no doubt some 'plane spotter' will ahem, shoot me down….

DH
 
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Boeing had found sign of metal fatigue in the fuselage skin around the satellite attenae on the roof of some 777s . This may have detached in flight leading to decompression and loss of most comms.

There would be two prime airports for diverting the aircraft. One ahead in Vietnam Can Tho, one behind in Malaysia Trang, Both have the same identifier code TRN and automatic systems in the aircraft would take over flight control to head towards the nearest of these if the pilots could not operate the controls. The turn suggests Trang was selected.

But until the flight data recorder ( black box ) is found all is speculation and informed "guess" work

Edit The VOR for Can Tho is not TRN but TSN also Can Tho may hav been un-available due to run way being re-built / extended
 
There was a report of the pilots last communication to air traffic control ( when asked to contact another air traffic centre, as being quote 'alright goodnight'this is not a professional reply, call sign and new frequency should have been transmitted, to show that the message had been received and understood.

Wotan
 
There are lots of 'reports' at the moment....

The press conf this morning was worth watching see how completely out of their depth the Malaysian guys were. Completely unruly mob of press against untrained and people clearly uncomfortable dealing with such a crowd.
Resulted in confused responses, no real technical detail revealed apart from indicating the 'report' of a passenger or person has being lifted out with a life jacket as false information.
Also they are calling in the FAA to assist with their primary or was that secondary radar data, i dont think they are sure themselves. They are sure however there was no live tracking via radar of any aircraft at the time this aircraft dissapeared.

After reading alot of the posts from the experts, im still going with one of hmm4 theories.

1)Antenna area fatigue causing decompression and loss of comms
2 Control area under cabin severe eletrical failure, and decompression apparently an incident similar to this on a 777 has occured previously. Which also caused loss of major comms.
3) Cargo fire? Must of been rapid.
4) Hijack/pilot takes over plane and ditches it. - seems unlikely but would explain loss of comms.
 
Concord/e has one serious accident then the fleet is grounded, while Boeings fall out of the sky at regular intervals, yet they remain in service?


Wotan
 
I wonder whether being American products has any bearing on this!
 
Yes.

AF had 7 Concordes and BA had 7. 20 were built but 6 were development or prototype models.

With only 14 examples in the air, you would expect the accident rate to be minute, which it was.

How many Boeings are air worthy at this time? According to the company themselves, 12,000.

So you would expect a few more to make unscheduled journeys groundwards from time to time.
 
wotan said:
Concord/e has one serious accident then the fleet is grounded, while Boeings fall out of the sky at regular intervals, yet they remain in service?
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The decision to ground Concorde was influenced by the costs of maintaining the service for a very small number of customers who could afford to travel by Concorde. It was not a profitable service.
 
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