Malaysian Airline plane disappears

Originally Posted by thenry

I don't care what your views are on vast amounts of data being collected and sieved through. In situations like this the world takes a big interest. A missing passenger jet is a big deal whatever way you look at it. If various different authorities from different Countries don't man a team up to look into it, especially to help one that hasn't exactly got the resources to do all the fancy things another could do then we're screwed! I would hate to be in that position. Who initially took charge looking for the passenger jet ?

I went to search for something that was mentioned on FB as being in the Chad desert.It's a memorial site to a bombed passenger plane.I tried to find it using Google earth.I just could not find it until I got the actual direct image posted on line..and that reminded me that this planet is a whole lot bigger than we ever truly realise it to be because we as individuals travel so little of it.
The area they have been searching is at least the size of the Sahara and it must be truly hard to actually search through the satellite pictures getting close enough to see the images which will be miniscule in comparison to a whole sea,a whole planet.Give them the kudos for at least finding what is effectively a needle in a whole pile of haystacks.

[thenry]

No. The pieces of interest have been pictured close to where they always expected the plane to be, thats what CNN have said so thats nearly 3 days of looking in a 'small area' not the entire Gulf of Thailand or any other sea.

[telfordcable]

Go and help find the missing plane here: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

I went to search for something that was mentioned on FB as being in the Chad desert.It's a memorial site to a bombed passenger plane.I tried to find it using Google earth.I just could not find it until I got the actual direct image posted on line..and that reminded me that this planet is a whole lot bigger than we ever truly realise it to be because we as individuals travel so little of it.
The area they have been searching is at least the size of the Sahara and it must be truly hard to actually search through the satellite pictures getting close enough to see the images which will be miniscule in comparison to a whole sea,a whole planet.Give them the kudos for at least finding what is effectively a needle in a whole pile of haystacks.

No kudos, it isn't it and should never have been released, apparently

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26559627

If nothing else it seems like a guide in how not to handle things, is there one professional handling this in Malaysia

[Pierre]

It reminds me of the crash the golfer Payne Stewart was in.

http://www.golftoday.co.uk/news/year.../stewart1.html

His private jet depressurised, everybody was knocked out and the plane kept flying until it ran of fuel.

If something like this happened the plane could have crashed anywhere.

Only thing is that it doesn't explain why the transponder and ACAR stopped sending out signals

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Pierre

It reminds me of the crash the golfer Payne Stewart was in.

http://www.golftoday.co.uk/news/year.../stewart1.html

His private jet depressurised, everybody was knocked out and the plane kept flying until it ran of fuel.

If something like this happened the plane could have crashed anywhere.

Only thing is that it doesn't explain why the transponder and ACAR stopped sending out signals

Could something have depressurised the plane and knocked out the electrical supply at the same time? Would the transponder or ACAR have automatic backup power if this happened?

[thenry]

SkyNews Breaking News..

Reuters: Satellite picked up 'electronic ping' from flight after it lost contact

Rolls-Royce received one engine data transmission during flight & nothing after

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Could something have depressurised the plane and knocked out the electrical supply at the same time? Would the transponder or ACAR have automatic backup power if this happened?

I don't know.

But if it did continue to fly on autopilot, it could have ended up coming down in a remote part of Russia.

It's clearly evident that it didn't crash on course at the point contact was lost.

So that means it either changed course, or continued flying on course.

So you have questions, if it continued flying on course how far did it fly? You should be able work that out by how much fuel was on board. That would then give you a potential search area.

If the plane altered course, it could be anywhere, but again if you know how much fuel it had on board you would have a radius in which to look, provided it didn't ditch early.

I think this will run and run, but more resources need to be thrown at and more countries need to get involved.

[thenry]

http://news.sky.com/story/1224430/mi...words-revealed

heartbreaking image.

[thenry]

Radar-tracking evidence showed the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was deliberately flown towards India's Andaman Islands, it has been reported.

http://news.sky.com/story/1225731/mi...ndaman-islands

[Pierre]

Guy on the news reckons it almost certainly points to some kind of foul play.

I thought this guy (Jim Wright) put it fairly well...

https://aattp.org/exclusive-a-former...es-flight-370/

[thenry]

did i just hear right on the BBC news catch up thing on BBC1..

The story of that missing plane goes on

how insensitive.

[Pierre]

I think this may go down in history as one of the greatest mysteries.

I think there's very real possibility it may never be found.

Even if floating wreckage or debris is found, even by now it could hundreds of miles from where it hit the water - If it hit the water.

[Osem]

Would the Americans, with all their top secret satellite technology, sea bed listening networks etc. etc., necessarily come clean about where this plane is if they knew it? Maybe they know where it is and want to keep that knowledge under wraps so as not to reveal their capabilities...