Mh370

Post by **spot** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:32 am

The reboot, as it were. I didn't fancy bumping any of the old threads, they were a bit sludgy.

It does look likely that they've found a bit of the lost plane.

It seems a stretch of the imagination that it could have traveled all that way from the Southern Arc in just a year, though.

MH370 search: Reunion debris to be tested in France - BBC News

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:10 pm

Looking at ocean current maps, it seems quite logical that the plane went down shortly after last contact near the Andaman sea.

The currents would likely take debris into the equatorial currents.

Agree that it is unlikely to have gone down in the southern regions near Australia and drifted to the Madagascar region.

Of course I am far more familiar with the Northern Hemisphere currents than the Southern.

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Post by **spot** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:12 pm

LarsMac;1483479 wrote: Looking at ocean current maps, it seems quite logical that the plane went down shortly after last contact near the Andaman sea.

That's the puzzle - the next eight or nine hours' worth of outbound hourly keep-alive pings with the plane's identification attached.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:28 pm

Were there any other 777s lost, or missing pieces in that part of the world?

Post by **spot** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:34 pm

Three hull losses at airports, a fourth over dry land in Ukraine and the one we're discussing.

I don't think any 777 could have lost that section of wing and made it home to a successful landing, so it's just hull losses I looked at.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:22 pm

The question is that given the whole picture of global events before & since, particularly in that area of the world, does it really matter?

It was flying off course, taking a short cut over a war zone. Why is there such a mystery about what happened to it? It wasn't supposed to be there. It got shot down. Why is that so difficult to accept?

Post by **spot** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:54 pm

FourPart;1483490 wrote: The question is that given the whole picture of global events before & since, particularly in that area of the world, does it really matter?

It was flying off course, taking a short cut over a war zone. Why is there such a mystery about what happened to it? It wasn't supposed to be there. It got shot down. Why is that so difficult to accept?Wrong plane, sadly. This thread's discussing the one which disappeared on its way to China.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 3:05 pm

spot;1483498 wrote: Wrong plane, sadly. This thread's discussing the one which disappeared on its way to China.
So many disappearing it's difficult to keep track.

Post by **spot** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 3:09 pm

FourPart;1483505 wrote: So many disappearing it's difficult to keep track.

The only other one this century that I can think of was an Air France A380 off Brazil, and they recovered that.

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:37 pm

I must do a reset on my previous post. I was thinking it was this March, for some reason. and it has been over a year.

But Now I am remembering the incident with Payne Stewart's private Jet, which apparently flew for quite some time after the passengers and crew had been killed by a loss of cabin integrity. Wondering if that is even possible on a 777.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 1:24 am

I'm sure it's how an automatic pilot would react if the cockpit crew stopped doing anything, but it would surely continue toward its preset destination - China. The reports at the time made it seem likely the flight transponder had been deliberately turned off, too - threading the aircraft south of Indonesia without showing on anyone's radar, but with an active flight transponder, might be unlikely.