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Commercial Aviation/Airplane Question

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walrus said:
Apparently Rolls Royce engines have transmitters on them. They were still going 4 hrs after they lost radar contact. Weird and keeps getting weirder
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And now the Malaysians are denying that the transmitters kept going.

Hmmmm.

Edit: And now I read that the latest is that while the computers didn't upload any data, they did keep pinging a satellite for upload, but MAS hadn't subscribed to the full data monitoring service. This is how the Malaysian gov't spokesman can say that the plane didn't upload any "data" while conveniently ignoring the fact that the plane may have kept flying.
 
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I read some theory that the plane was hijacked, and flown purposly to a remote place to be used later, for something, probably something very bad. I dismissed it at first, but the more that comes out with this story, the more this seems like it could be plausible.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Anything is possible at this point.
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Based on what I've read, it seemed possible that a freak lightning strike or some other kind of natural electromagnetic pulse might have fried the transponder or controls, though I haven't seen that theory floated. Richard Castle would suggest that the plane was zapped by some kind of exotic high-beam energy weapon being tested by some nefarious entity. and of course there is the theory that the transponder was turned off deliberately to hide the plane's location.
 
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FreshFish said:
Richard Castle would suggest that the plane was zapped by some kind of exotic high-beam energy weapon being tested by some nefarious entity. and of course there is the theory that the transponder was turned off deliberately to hide the plane's location.
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So, basically, SPECTRE is reborn, in real life.
 
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According to a former ITV correspondent in China:

"MH370 coverage goes like this

1) Europe/ US evenings - latest rumours/breaking news
2) Asian PM - those rumours denied
3) Repeat daily"

About covers it.
 
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FreshFish said:
Based on what I've read, it seemed possible that a freak lightning strike or some other kind of natural electromagnetic pulse might have fried the transponder or controls, though I haven't seen that theory floated. Richard Castle would suggest that the plane was zapped by some kind of exotic high-beam energy weapon being tested by some nefarious entity. and of course there is the theory that the transponder was turned off deliberately to hide the plane's location.
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It was reportedly flying in good weather, so that would seem to rule out a lightning strike.

The transponder being turned off wouldn't have really done anything other than made the data tag disappear from the scope, which would have gone noticed by ATC. Primary radar would have still shown a target, it just wouldn't have been identified. I've been told there is away to disappear from primary if you know what you're doing, but other than stealth technology, I'm not sure what that would be, and the 777ER is not exactly stealth.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
It was reportedly flying in good weather, so that would seem to rule out a lightning strike.

The transponder being turned off wouldn't have really done anything other than made the data tag disappear from the scope, which would have gone noticed by ATC. Primary radar would have still shown a target, it just wouldn't have been identified. I've been told there is away to disappear from primary if you know what you're doing, but other than stealth technology, I'm not sure what that would be, and the 777ER is not exactly stealth.
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Is there any validity to the hollywood flying low altitude, and under the radar? Is it even possible to do that a 777? I wouldn't think so, but I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Is there any validity to the hollywood flying low altitude, and under the radar? Is it even possible to do that a 777? I wouldn't think so, but I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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Yes and no. Radars can pick up stuff on the ground depending on what angle they're aimed at. However, filters can be set to cancel out anything above or below a certain altitudes...
 
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"three sources who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media" weigh in this morning with additional information.


Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course...

Analysis of the Malaysia data suggests the plane, with 239 people on board, diverted from its intended northeast route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and flew west instead, using airline flight corridors normally employed for routes to the Middle East and Europe....

The last plot on the military radar’s tracking suggested the plane was flying toward India’s Andaman Islands, a chain of isles between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

A third source familiar with the investigation said inquiries were focusing increasingly on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight.
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Has anyone thought to talk to the producers of "Lost?" :)

This morning's theory that the plane might have be headed for the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean would seem to confirm some kind of "Lost" scenario.
 
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I kinda find it hard to believe that gov'ment agencies don't know where this is. They'd see blips on radar and stuff.

And if they don't & can't well.., Mookie wants a refund on the gazillions of dollars spent post 9/11

Almost like they know and have known, but are either negotiating or planning.

Are relatives still calling the cell phones of passengers and getting raining
 
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This has seemed, to me, to be the way this has been going for a little while now. The scary thing now is, where are all of those passengers? Were they executed? And, what the **** are the crazies going to do with this plane? I guarantee it is nothing good, and hopefully someone shoots it down before it gets crashed into a population center.
 
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