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1stellarexplorer
Mar 12, 2014, 10:52 am

Does this count as History at 30,000 Feet? ;)

2AnnaClaire
Editado: Mar 12, 2014, 11:51 am

Perhaps it did at some point. Unfortunately, I think it's more likely "history in 30,000 pieces" now. An intact aircraft that large is pretty hard to miss, and there's been no evidence of it other than an oil slick which may or may not be relevant.

3clamairy
Mar 12, 2014, 12:23 pm

The oil slick has been ruled out, BTW.

The realist in me agrees that this 777 is probably one with a mountain-side or deep under water. However, there's this wild little thought that keeps popping into my head that the pilot was up to something (what, I have no idea) and they're all alive somewhere.

4clamairy
Mar 12, 2014, 12:50 pm

Looks like they're looking for help combing satellite pix: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/us/malaysia-airlines-plane-crowdsourcing-search/

5PossMan
Mar 12, 2014, 3:13 pm

To some extent this shows the limits of our technology. It always (even still) amazes me that when someone in UK gets murdered or just vanishes that they soon get pictures of him/her on CCTV in the local supermarket or such. Drive down a motorway and cameras are automatically checking if the car is insured and taxed. We're told that satellites can read car number plates from goodness knows how high. And yet a huge plane can just vanish without a trace. The suggestion it turned round with no information from the pilot as to why certainly raises questions.

6PhaedraB
Mar 12, 2014, 4:36 pm

>5 PossMan:

The UK is one of the world's leaders in CCTV coverage. You wouldn't lose a huge plane in London, but a plane flying over open water and triple-canopy jungle is another story.

7clamairy
Mar 12, 2014, 4:44 pm

Just got an email from CNN:

(CNN) -- A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 "observed a suspected crash area at sea," a Chinese agency said.

8stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 12, 2014, 5:48 pm

So before they announce that it just crashed in an area not previously searched, here's the picture I've been imagining (not believing, mind you!):

Plane disappears, transponders turned off, veers west unexpectedly (maybe). Explosion at high altitude? Maybe, but satellites are good at detecting explosions at altitude. Terrorism? But no claim of responsibility, and no anguished cell phone calls to loved ones or texts, as in 911.

What fits the fact pattern is a depressed and/or psychotic and/or angry pilot with a grudge. He's gonna take it down, and he wants to mess with all the governments and searchers. The plane flew at night in the dark. He turns off the transponders and veers west over peninsular Malaysia. It's dark so passengers have no idea. He continues on for a very long time, out where searchers would look last, way out in the Indian ocean. He gently descends so as to keep the passengers unsuspecting. From maybe a few hundred feet up, he plunges the plane down. It sinks. No wreckage. Oh yeah -- maybe he had to kill the copilot. It works, I think.

In 2134, as surveys are being conducted for the construction of underwater cities to house Indian and Bangladeshi refugees from the catastrophic coastal flooding due to rising sea levels, the plane is finally discovered on the ocean floor.

Alternatively, terrorists take over. They are going to crash the plane 911-style. A government takes them out with a missile. There is a US missile said by defense dept people to be powerful enough to obliterate the plane with only microscopic debris. The truth is never announced, as said government has no interest in publicizing. This has more holes in it.

Of course, it probably has more prosaic explanation :)

9clamairy
Mar 12, 2014, 6:52 pm

>8 stellarexplorer: Well, they showed the Chinese satellite photos on the national news and they did not look much like plane wreckage to me, but what do I know?





10stellarexplorer
Mar 12, 2014, 6:59 pm

Well utilizing my years of expertise in aviation disaster oceanography... I have no idea!

11clamairy
Mar 13, 2014, 11:06 am

Well, they found bupkis in that area where the Chinese satellite photos indicated there should be wreckage.

And the plot continues to thicken: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/13/1284331/-Report-Malaysia-Airlines-Fligh...

12stellarexplorer
Mar 13, 2014, 11:51 am

I have to admit to a fascination with this story, chilling as the human lives at stake indeed are.

I stick by my theory! (As a theory:))

I'm still troubled by terrorist theories based on no cell phone SOSs, though one could think up scenarios to make that work, I guess. The theory I read (I think by a US analyst) that the plane may have been commandeered "for later use" by someone -- that seems far fetched. The longer they wait for use, the greater the chance of being discovered and thwarted.

I could see the idea of a crash in a remote jungle redoubt. Not inconceivable. Puzzling.

Are you all as glued to this story as I am?

13SylviaC
Mar 13, 2014, 11:59 am

Yes. While I'm horrified at the human aspect of it, I'm also fascinated by the idea of a plane just vanishing, given the amount of technological tracking that exists now.

14clamairy
Mar 13, 2014, 12:00 pm

I'm obsessed. :o(

The biggest problem with the highjacked for later use scenario is that no country in that area seems to have picked up an unidentified 777 within its airspace. Unless there's a giant secret lair with a mile plus of runway I can't figure out where it went. With the Malaysians being too quiet through all of this maybe they have suspicions they aren't sharing.

15stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 13, 2014, 1:36 pm

Yeah, hard to know what's going on with the Malaysians. I've been assuming that they are merely being protective of their technical capabilities out of national security concerns. The Chinese, in particular, would be the ones they'd most like to keep away from that information. But the truth is often stranger...

16stellarexplorer
Mar 13, 2014, 3:42 pm

So now the latest is that the the "US has indication that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean".

My theory gains support. :)

17clamairy
Mar 13, 2014, 4:48 pm

Yes, I think I linked in #11 to the story about how the engines sent data to Rolls Royce for four hours after the transponder was turned off or malfunctioned. Several paragraphs down they mentioned that would have taken it over the Indian Ocean.

18stellarexplorer
Mar 13, 2014, 5:30 pm

I interpreted the new US suspicions - perhaps erroneously - as based on other as yet undisclosed info. But maybe not.

19clamairy
Editado: Mar 13, 2014, 8:56 pm

It's the same data. I'm watching Anderson Cooper now. That data combined with what possibly looks like the plane heading that way on radar.

20stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 13, 2014, 11:25 pm

One more way out idea. The only state crazy enough to commandeer a plane is North Korea. As you will recall, they are friendly with the Burmese (recall the assassination attempt on the S Korean president while he visited there, and the 2008 pact between the two countries).

If N Korean agents boarded the plane using Chinese passports, conceivably they could take control and order the pilot to fly west and then low, under radar, north along the Andaman Sea. Staying at sea so as not to be detected by neighboring countries, they land on a remote airstrip in Myanmar with consent of the military dictatorship there. Why do they do this? Who understands the North Koreans?

21pmackey
Mar 14, 2014, 5:37 am

20> "How do you rike me now, Hans Brix?"

22stellarexplorer
Mar 14, 2014, 6:57 am

Right, just not fiction, maybe.

I'm wracking my brains trying to think of a rational reason for someone to take the plane, conceal their identity, obscure the outcome. Terrorist goals involve stoking fear. Is there more to come? Ransom request? Weaponizing the plane? Possible but arguments against it are strong.

I'm left with my original: deranged pilot or skilled commandeering pilot, carefulling ditching the plane, sinking it, ie an irrational reason. An irrational motive but carefully planned.

I can't sleep. I need to figure this out. Give me more data!

23clamairy
Editado: Mar 14, 2014, 8:00 am

I can sleep, but I check Google News first thing each morning to see if there have been any new developments.

I didn't think about North Korea, but it makes some sense. The one thing that keeps popping into my head is the story that the pilot was such a flying buff that he had a flight simulator in his home. If he was using this often, perhaps he was training for something other than routine flights. Something nefarious, even.

24TLCrawford
Editado: Mar 14, 2014, 9:25 am

Considering how little pilots are paid how could he afford a simulator?

The first thing any plot to secretly do anything with an airplane these days needs is a way to disable the passengers cell phones. My thinking goes back to an American golf pro who died after his aircraft depressurized but it flew on until running out of fuel on autopilot.

25clamairy
Mar 14, 2014, 10:10 am

>24 TLCrawford: Yes, that case has been sited a few times this week.

So here are two interesting developments.

• Now they're saying there's a possibility the plane landed somewhere on the Andaman Islands, in the Indian Ocean. But they said "The radar data doesn't show the plane over the Andaman Islands, but only on a known route that would take it there."

• "Chinese researchers say they recorded a "seafloor event" in waters around Malaysia and Vietnam about an hour and a half after the missing plane's last known contact. The event was recorded in a nonseismic region about 116 kilometers (72 miles) northeast of the plane's last confirmed location, the University of Science and Technology of China said."

26stellarexplorer
Mar 14, 2014, 11:42 am

>24 TLCrawford: The Payne Stewart scenario, as it is often dubbed, has generally been rejected because of the finding that the transponders were turned of at different times, implying deliberately rather than due to mechanical failure of the plane or structural catastrophe, or

But IMHO it is not impossible that the pilot had equipment to allow flight in depressurized circumstances, as a deliberate way to deal with the problem off the passengers. In that scenario, plane is commandeered, doors are opened, passengers are unconscious at best, and pilot takes plane to his destination.

Also, there is evidence that steering took place that needed to be intentional to drive the plane to the west, otherwise in the P.S. Scenario, the plane's autopilot takes it to the programmed destination.

27stellarexplorer
Mar 14, 2014, 11:48 am

I've been thinking about the Andaman Islands as a landing place too. Keep in mind this is among the most remote places in the world, it's natives having only limited contact with the world. I saw a video of terrified inhabitants attacking a helicopter with sticks.

Problems: the Indian military has bases on the coast there and almost certainly would have detected an incoming plane. Also, the place is utterly undeveloped except for the bases, so I'm wondering whether there is any place to land a plane.

28clamairy
Mar 14, 2014, 10:02 pm

Just noticed that I got this message from CNN at 5:00 this evening:

FIRST ON CNN: A classified analysis of electronic and satellite data conducted by the United States and Malaysian governments shows Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely crashed into the Indian Ocean on one of two flight paths, CNN has learned. One flight path suggests the plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal off the coast of India; the other has it traveling southeast and crashing elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, according to the analysis.


29stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 14, 2014, 10:13 pm

Yeah, things like that are being said, but so far it strikes me as only based on the initial direction change and believed duration of flight, but no one has any actual knowledge of how the flight ended. yet. But fascinating. People seem to keep raising the decompression scenario, followed by the argument that the turning off of the transponders and manual change of direction would seem to rule that out.

30clamairy
Mar 14, 2014, 10:21 pm

Yup. And I'm still fascinated by the seismic-type 'seafloor event' the Chinese say they recorded.

31stellarexplorer
Mar 14, 2014, 10:31 pm

The creativity arising from this event is a tribute to the variability in human perception...

32SylviaC
Mar 14, 2014, 11:09 pm

Imagine trying to pinpoint airplane debris in the Indian Ocean.

>31 stellarexplorer: Just wait for the blockbuster movie!

33clamairy
Editado: Mar 15, 2014, 8:32 am

34PossMan
Mar 15, 2014, 8:36 am

I was reminded this morning that it took 2 years to locate the flight recorder from the Air France plane that went down in the Atlantic so I am beginning to despair of anything conclusive in the near future. On a more human aspect of the search I came across this at "The Converstion" :-
http://theconversation.com/flight-mh370-why-does-the-media-show-relatives-who-ar...
I've always felt uneasy at some of the TV coverage of some events such as child murders, helicopter crashes. When a killers walked into a Dunblane primary school many years ago cameras were being thrust into the faces of grieving parents gathered outside.

35SylviaC
Mar 15, 2014, 10:51 am

I'm very often bothered by the media displaying the grief of victims' families. I realize that it is part of the story, and that some people want to have their say, but too often it seems that the media is hounding them, and adding to the trauma. It's grief porn.

36stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 15, 2014, 12:12 pm

"So how does it feel to hear that your child has just been killed?"

These people are near criminals.

37clamairy
Mar 15, 2014, 1:58 pm

Agreed.

38pmackey
Mar 15, 2014, 7:42 pm

"So how does it feel to hear that your child has just been killed?"

How many times have I heard questions like this even from supposedly reputable news outlets. It makes my blood boil. As SlyviaC says above, it's grief porn and I despise them for it.

It's depressing because I realize how true Amusing Ourselves to Death is.

39stellarexplorer
Mar 16, 2014, 1:03 pm

So now they have revealed that the first transponder was turned off BEFORE the final calm, routine voice contact with the pilot. There seems to be agreement that a skilled pilot was necessary to fly the way the plane apparently did. And that the doors are secure enough that it would be unlikely for them to be forced so quickly that there would be no time for a message of "Hijack Underway" to have been sent.

All this suggests at least some involvement of one of the pilots. Also, it is hard to imagine even the most composed pilot giving no sign whatever of tension in his voice if compelled by hijackers to sign off verbally to air traffic control.

I'm still leading with some version of the pilot suicide/homocide theory I have held all along.

What if the plane landed on the remote Kazakh high desert, which fits the putative arcs of possibility? Could be, but hard to imagine no country would have detected it on its way. Indian Ocean floor much more likely, sadly.

Bizarre.

40PossMan
Mar 16, 2014, 3:18 pm

#39: Just watched a BBC news programme in which their reporter as good as said changing course was easy peasy. He'd learnt how (he claimed) in just a few minutes, punched in few numbers on the console and hey presto outside the simulator window the landscape wheeled round as the plane headed for a new waypoint. I'm inclined to think there's probably more to flying than that and if asked to bet would go for your last sentence.

41stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 16, 2014, 4:48 pm

>40 PossMan: It's odd - I keep hearing people identified as "aviation experts" arguing that the specific flight maneuvers (climbing, descending, and slicing right along the limits of various countries' radar monitoring zones) requires a great deal of skill. But I also recall that the 911 hijackers only needed a fraction of the skill to fly the planes as they would have to get them into the air successfully.

The whole episode has been an exercise in whom to believe, if anyone ;)

42PhaedraB
Mar 17, 2014, 5:36 pm

>41 stellarexplorer: Good point. It's easy to drive a car when you're cruising along the Interstate, less so when you're backing out of steep, icy driveway or getting across six lanes of traffic to make your turn.

One thing that was noticed in retrospect with the 9/11 hijackers was they weren't very interested in learning to land the plane.

They're also reporting now that the flight simulator in the pilot's home was homemade. They had to take it apart to get it out of the apartment. They're wondering now if he was using it to train someone else.

It's a mystery inside of speculation inside of news broadcast filler. But fascinating.

43bernsad
Mar 17, 2014, 5:54 pm

Shhh, the plane's in my backyard.

45stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 18, 2014, 5:15 am

I have to admit that for the first time I am starting to shift away from the suicidal pilot theory. It's the middle of the night, so maybe this will seem crazy in the light of day.

But there are some troubling questions that make this hard for me to square with that notion.

Why crash the plane 7 hours later if this is suicide? Just point the thing down and be done with it. Where is the motive for a crash hours later? And the deliberate sinking of the plane without debris is frankly hard to find a motive for either. I first thought that before the flight pattern was revealed, ie turn west, climb to 45000 feet, then down to 20-some thousand.

Accident is also hard to square with the flight pattern and the turning off of the transponders.

A remote crash in the ocean should initiate a repeating underwater sonic ping detectable from a great distance. None reported.

Why go up that high, above the recommended altitude for that plane? It is tempting - though highly conjectural! - to think it was to kill the passengers rapidly after depressurizing the plane. (I read that at 45000 ft passengers are expected to be conscious only 5 to 9 seconds after depressurization.) Thus no emergency cellphone calls or texts. The pilot uses oxygen mask. He has disabled the copilot. Maybe put something in his coffee, or locked him out of the cockpit.

I heard but cannot confirm that Malaysia said the last satellite ping detected appeared to be coming from the ground. Not the air.

All the above makes me wonder whether somehow, surprisingly, the plane is not in water, but rather was landed on the ground, somewhere along that northern arc. And not for a good purpose.

I'm thinking we are getting very limited information because governments are busy trying to figure out who did it, where the plane is, and what's going on.

I'm going to sleep. I hope when I wake up I'll realize how flawed that logic is, and I'll delete this. Or someone can set me straight on where I've gone wrong. That would be welcome.

46clamairy
Mar 18, 2014, 8:41 am

Makes perfect sense to me, and it's morning. (But I can't tell if it's because you're really on to something, or because I'm somewhat paranoid.)

One of the most frustrating parts of this is that so many countries are playing their cards close to their vests because they don't want any of their neighbors/enemies to know what their radar capabilities and limitations are.

47SylviaC
Mar 18, 2014, 10:22 am

Last night they were saying that the plane's computer had been reprogrammed, with new coordinates punched in manually. But nobody said how they knew this. Has anyone heard how investigators would have found that out?

48geneg
Mar 18, 2014, 11:20 am

How many people are going to be confused if this was the rapture?

49stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 18, 2014, 11:28 am

I have a bad feeling that only a few individuals, skilled at planning, are experiencing rapture over this. But,yeah, that would put a new perspective on things for me, certainly!

50stellarexplorer
Mar 18, 2014, 11:31 am

>46 clamairy: "Makes perfect sense to me, and it's morning."

I was afraid of that.

51jjwilson61
Mar 18, 2014, 12:30 pm

At least according to MSNBC Malaysia has been putting out a different contradictory story every few minutes so you can't really trust anything they say.

52stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 18, 2014, 1:04 pm

That's right. But the data coming from the manufacturers is more believable, and that's some of the most important stuff in constructing the rough outline of a story. Which could still be entirely inaccurate.

53clamairy
Editado: Mar 18, 2014, 2:04 pm

So... what do we do if the plane suddenly reappears in the air and tries to land somewhere? Do we let it? Do we threaten to shoot it down and try to force to land somewhere 'safe?' Could anywhere actually be safe? Was it taken by people who hate us, or those who hate the Chinese? Yes, I do worry about these things. It sounds terrible but I'd rather it were under the water somewhere than to have all those people used as human shields for some twisted group.

54PossMan
Mar 18, 2014, 3:22 pm

>53 clamairy:: That scenario would seem to assume that the plane not only landed but landed somewhere where it could be refuelled so not some mid-ocean island unknown to us (or to the US). Were the passengers already dead when it first landed? Or were they kept alive as hostages for the sort of of reasons you seem to suggest? A horrible dilemma if it reappears but I've a feeling it wont't.

55stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 18, 2014, 4:50 pm

My thought is that if the diversion story is true the passengers are probably dead. And yes, certainly, if the plane is detected in flight, it cannot be allowed to reach its destination. Just as fighter jets were scrambled after the first three planes hit buildings on 911. The jets had orders to shoot down the fourth if it necessary.

If true, it's too carefully planned for them not to know what they are going to do. One possibility: repaint the plane to look like a conventional carrier from a different airline. Either shoot another plane down while the 777 is near, and on radar assume the position of the first one. Or obtain the transponder code for another plane, and plug it in so that the plane looks like all is in order.

I too wonder where this plane, when weaponized, might head. Prime candidates: US, China, Russia, Israel. My biggest fear: they have obtained a small nuclear device and just obtained the means to deliver it.

I know, I'm sounding like one of those crazy people on late night talk radio.

56clamairy
Editado: Mar 18, 2014, 9:23 pm

Well, you're not alone in your paranoid musings. Small comfort, I know. I'd rather The Powers that Be were worried and vigilant for no reason than to have them just assume the jet went down with all hands.

(Yep, small nukes were the first thing that popped into my head. Edited to add: Originally I was concerned about North Korea, but I'm less worried about that, now.)

57stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 20, 2014, 2:06 am

This seems possibly more significant than the lack of interest it's garnered:

"Malaysia's police chief, Khalid Abu Bakar, said an examination of the simulator, taken from the home of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, showed its data log had been cleared on February 3..."

But if indeed the Australians have located debris from the plane, I can return to whatever measure of sanity I usually possess.

58clamairy
Mar 20, 2014, 8:03 am

Those are some pretty big pieces they're saying they've spotted. I wonder how long we'll have to wait for confirmation.

59TLCrawford
Mar 20, 2014, 1:51 pm

Until a ship finds the reported debris and has something in hand that can be positively linked to the plane I remain skeptical. 80 feet is only two cargo containers and 15 feet could be one floating on end instead of on its side. It is a big ocean.

My wife just left for China on a 777-200ER so I am going to ignore all this for the next 14 hours.

60clamairy
Editado: Mar 20, 2014, 8:24 pm

>59 TLCrawford: Hope her travels are non-eventful!

61TLCrawford
Mar 21, 2014, 8:48 am

She landed at 3:43 my time this morning, somehow I was awake for here text message. I can relax for two weeks now.

62stellarexplorer
Mar 21, 2014, 11:20 am

Good to hear!

63clamairy
Mar 22, 2014, 9:42 pm

From CNN: NASA said Saturday that it plans to point some of its satellites at the search area.

64stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 22, 2014, 10:41 pm

The news is full of bulletins like this : BREAKING NEWS! NO NEW NEWS ABOUT THE MISSING PLANE!

Then there will be a gathering of several talking heads, and they'll discuss topics like "Have they investigated whether the copilot traditionally signed off with 'All right, goodnight'?"

It's enough to make you turn your attention to the situation in Ukraine!

65PhaedraB
Mar 22, 2014, 11:23 pm

Cover actual news? Heaven forfend!

66SylviaC
Mar 22, 2014, 11:48 pm

Yesterday there was a one hour special about it. An hour of people saying, "After two weeks, no one knows anything."

67PossMan
Editado: Mar 23, 2014, 8:21 am

On its iPad edition the Sunday Times (UK) says that the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmed, took a mystery 2 minute phone call just before the flight. Called from a pay-as-you-go card that was obtained by someone using a false identity (under Malaya's anti-terror laws everyone buying a SIM card has to provide details of identity card or passport number. It suggests the pilot may have had links with an anti-government group. Meanwhile the familes of the 2 pilots and the families of the cabin crew are being held at separate locations. Mind you I can imagine lots of people with PAYG phone cards do not identify themselves properly but are without malicious intent.

68geneg
Mar 23, 2014, 12:01 pm

Yesterday someone tweeted that CNN had renewed The Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight for a second season.

My attitude toward this is when and if (looking less and less likely) someone nas the real story to tell, I'll pay attention, otherwise I'm not interested. I follow this thread, but's that's mostly to see if there is a real story, yet. The coverage of this jumped the shark when a reporter on CNN pressed an investigator over the possibility of the supernatural being involved. My own speculation is the rapture, but that can't be it because I wasn't taken.

69stellarexplorer
Mar 23, 2014, 1:05 pm

Realistically, abduction by aliens for placement in a Galactic Zoo is looking more and more likely as the explanation. ;)

70PhaedraB
Mar 23, 2014, 1:39 pm

Someone else tweeted that wherever the plane was, it took the last shred of CNN's credibility with it.

Just comes down to, a bunch of talking heads saying the same thing over and over is cheaper to produce than actual news coverage.

71stellarexplorer
Mar 24, 2014, 10:56 am

Malaysian government announces plane crashed in Indan Ocean. Could this be the time they got it right?

72TLCrawford
Mar 24, 2014, 2:19 pm

At 10:00 this morning I got and email from my wife saying that there was news coming in about the plane. The hotel that they do the news briefings from is around the corner from her hotel. She said that the streets were nearly blocked from news trucks. It seems that CNN is not alone in making a big deal out of "nothing new".

All I heard is that further evaluation of the satellite data tracking the plane confirmed that it flew to the southern Indian Ocean. No word yet about anyone in line of site contact with any debris. (to the best of my knowledge)

73Mr.Durick
Mar 24, 2014, 10:35 pm

Here's my favorite explanation so far: http://aattp.org/erik-rush-obama-ordered-cia-to-steal-malaysia-airlines-flight-3...

I had liked the idea that the pilot wanted to commit suicide but couldn't face diving into the ocean so he just went high and depressurized the airplane. That left the descent to 20,000 feet unexplained, and later a pilot commentator said it couldn't be done.

I've been to Diego Garcia, and I think they could hide an airliner there.

Robert

74stellarexplorer
Mar 25, 2014, 12:46 am

That's about as likely as many of the ideas out there. Including mine!

75TLCrawford
Mar 25, 2014, 10:17 am

There was an article I read titled something like "The four least crazy theories" that contained one that struck me as very possible. A pilot suggested that a a combination of high heat, dry conditions, and low tire pressure could have started a smoldering fire. We know that the runway was dry and hot. According to the pilot the first thing to do with a fire of unknown origins is to start pulling circuit breakers and the last thing to do is turn on the oxygen, don't feed the beast. Climbing to a high altitude might have been to starve the fire of oxygen and heat, that is my theory. According to the article pilots have hoods to keep smoke away but it does not supply oxygen and it is possible they only had a few minutes to take counter measures before the smoke got to them.

If it worked out that way and the pilot only had a few minutes to make sure the plane came down outside a populated area he did a very good job.

76stellarexplorer
Mar 25, 2014, 10:51 am

I heard that too and it sounded plausible. The suggestion is also that you try to get to the nearest airport to get the plane down, and there was one on the Malaysian coast, just in the western direction the plane turned to. The pilot would have been very familiar with it. I've heard it claimed that the lack of cell messages may be attributable to poor coverage in the area. And at high altitude, even more so.

77binders
Mar 25, 2014, 11:26 pm

In other, off-topic news...
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78stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 26, 2014, 2:00 am

>77 binders: heard an npr interview with him, and he made a lot of sense. Nothing you didn't already think, but it's a message that deserves more attention. I'm paraphrasing and reinterpreting here, but I took from it Stop wasting your previous time on the planet, and don't cede it to the news/entertainment/corps who are only too happy to increase their profits by feeding you addictive pablum.

79TLCrawford
Mar 26, 2014, 9:33 am

#77 I freely admit to being a news addict, I can even name when I became addicted. I first heard about Bobby Kennedy's assassination when my mother picked me up from spending a weekend at a friends house. Now I hate to be away from a radio that I can trust to let me know when the missiles start to fly. I disagree that we spend to much time with the news. I get mine during my commute to work. My parents would spent 45 minutes each morning going through the newspaper. They got better local news but I listen to NPR so I think I manage to stay as informed on international and cultural news as they did. I think driving is a waste of my time, staying informed is not.

All news is a great format when there is something happening. The rest of the time it becomes corrosive.

80binders
Editado: Mar 26, 2014, 10:00 am

>79 TLCrawford: de Botton on that "breakfast news" programme (consumption metaphor anyone?) could be seen as them having run out of actual news on the malaysian plane, and getting a talking head to tell us about the phenomenon of the story itself.
meta-news?

81clamairy
Mar 26, 2014, 10:40 am

John Stewart did a great bit on the over-coverage on The Daily Show the other day: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/6lqtfn/the-curious-case-of-flight-370

82geneg
Mar 26, 2014, 12:53 pm

These kinds of events, events that carry over several days/weeks do not absorb my attention, in fact, when I see some tragedy has taken place like a massacre or an oil spill or a plane crash or a terrorist attack I pay attention to the general outline of the issue and then, through my news sources pay only enough attention to what's going on to know when it's time to pay attention again. This way I don't get hung up in the speculation and hype. I have found this approach keeps me from getting too tense about stuff. The worst thing about 9/11 was when BushCo said the whole world had changed. It hadn't, we just were included with everyone else. That kind of talk opens people to emotional manipulation which always leads to poor decisions and stupid, pointless actions. So, when there is real news about this event I'll pay attention to the real news and continue to ignore the hype.

83stellarexplorer
Editado: Mar 26, 2014, 1:00 pm

>81 clamairy: Loved that - hilarious!

84PhaedraB
Mar 26, 2014, 1:35 pm

The Malaysian plane coverage reminds me of when John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s plane crashed. That had days of round-the-clock coverage whether there was any "breaking" news or not. It's like, they get started on these things and it becomes an addiction. They just can't stop...

Instead of 24/7 news, we get 24/7 All One Story, All The Time, Until The Next One.

85SylviaC
Editado: Mar 26, 2014, 8:19 pm

>81 clamairy:


Do they have a different message for every country?

86clamairy
Mar 26, 2014, 5:01 pm

>85 SylviaC: Bwaa haa haa!!! That's brilliant!

87TLCrawford
Mar 27, 2014, 10:31 am

My attention has been temporarily diverted by the landslide in Washington state. Not the rescue / recovery but the revelations that everyone knew it was going to happen. It has a long record of happening in that valley, along that road, and the local government kept issuing building permits. Property value is higher than the value of lives.

88PhaedraB
Mar 27, 2014, 3:19 pm

>87 TLCrawford:

The same could be said about people building million-dollar homes on the beach in hurricane country. 'Cause the awful stuff will happen to someone else, right? 'Cause it's my home it's magically protected, right?

89stellarexplorer
Abr 7, 2014, 12:53 am

Poll: do you think these reported pings will result in locating the plane?

90pmackey
Abr 8, 2014, 5:06 am

>89 stellarexplorer:, IRT your poll, no. I base my opinion on the track record of hope and disappointment experienced already. But that's just me being pessimistic. It's a big ocean.

91stellarexplorer
Abr 8, 2014, 11:24 am

Thanks for the input. I think there's a way do do a formal poll using the site software. But that's beyond my limited technical expertise.

92SylviaC
Abr 8, 2014, 12:06 pm

<vote>Type your question here.</vote>

Thus:

Votar: Do you think these reported pings will result in locating the plane?

Resultado actual: Sim 5, Não 7, Indeciso 2

93pmackey
Abr 8, 2014, 12:13 pm

>92 SylviaC: SylviaC, Very cool.

94stellarexplorer
Abr 8, 2014, 3:10 pm

Thank you Sylvia. Next time I'll know! :)

95clamairy
Abr 9, 2014, 7:43 am

Ha! I am changing my answer in that poll because of today's news.

96TLCrawford
Abr 9, 2014, 8:26 am

This anti submarine listening gear is amazing but until they get three readings from very different areas I remain undecided. I could be mistaken but I feel that the first readings were made from locations too close together to really help pinpoint the source. Triangulating with two lines that are nearly parallel can not be that efficient.

97stellarexplorer
Abr 9, 2014, 10:07 am

I have an inclination to believe, but fear I've been burned by this story too many times.

98PossMan
Editado: Abr 9, 2014, 2:29 pm

I'm feeling more confident. I don't think we are going to have any quick answers but feel the evidence they now have will lead them to do a search with submersibles etc in a much smaller area than the original search. But still quite a big area and at quite a depth. And it's probably not all in one spot.

99binders
Abr 10, 2014, 10:03 am

100razzamajazz
Abr 10, 2014, 10:13 am



A big and long task to find the wreckage and bodies, if any?

"Pings" heard but no trace of anything showing the evidence of varnished Malaysian Airlines Flt MH 370.

May there be a closure to the bereaved families of the missing passengers as soon as possible .

101clamairy
Abr 11, 2014, 2:43 pm

102razzamajazz
Abr 11, 2014, 11:58 pm


Mysterious !!!

103stellarexplorer
Editado: Maio 15, 2014, 3:06 pm

Regarding the poll, not much evidence yet that the pings helped...

:) :(

104stellarexplorer
Editado: Out 11, 2014, 3:46 am

Not much news on this front, but I did come across two interesting sources today, both arguing that the satellite data suggesting an end in the Indian Ocean are unreliable, and expressing the belief that human intervention was probably involved. These were not crackpot sources, and I'm not sure where to go with this. I wanted to let the plane rest on the bottom of the ocean, 300+ souls long oblivious to their destination.

The first is the head of Emirates Air Tim Clark, who vigorously suggests a whitewash:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/emirates-chief-tim-clark-reveals-su...

And the second is this week's NOVA episode, "Why Planes Vanish", which doesn't definitively take a position, but prominently features experts who make a similar case:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/why-planes-vanish.html

105PossMan
Out 11, 2014, 7:39 am

Yesterday's newspaper (London Times) had another interesting fact. Franz Timmermans, the Dutch Foreign Minister, mentioned in a television interview on Wednesday that one of the passengers had an oxygen mask on which means that passengers didn't all die instantly. FT acknowledged that no passengers would have seen the missile hit as shrapnel blasted through the fuselage but added "..... do you know someone was found with an oxygen mask on their mouth and so they had time to put it on?"

106clamairy
Out 11, 2014, 9:32 am

>105 PossMan: The Dutch Foreign Minister was referring to Flight 17, which is the one that was shot down. This thread is about Flight 370.

107StaceyAdams
Out 11, 2014, 10:04 am

Este utilizador foi removido como sendo spam.

108PossMan
Editado: Out 11, 2014, 10:21 am

>106 clamairy:: Of course. My apologies - it's been quite a while since I was in this thread and just got confused. My fault for not taking the time to check back posts.

109stellarexplorer
Out 11, 2014, 1:04 pm

No problem at all. Actually, I wish we knew whether passengers on Flight 370 wore oxygen masks at any point in the flight....

110stellarexplorer
Jul 29, 2015, 11:38 pm

At last, a clue.

111clamairy
Jul 30, 2015, 7:01 am

Yes!

112stellarexplorer
Editado: Ago 2, 2016, 12:52 am

A year since last post.

Expert concludes plane was deliberately flown into water

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36938480

113stellarexplorer
Editado: Ago 6, 2016, 12:33 pm

Is there a story finally falling into place?:

Pilot of missing plane had a flight path on his home flight simulator that took the plane over the southern Indian Ocean:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-mh370.html?_r=0

114clamairy
Ago 6, 2016, 12:13 pm

I just saw that NY Times piece and came rushing in to see if anyone was discussing it. They are claiming it's not totally conclusive because there were so many other routes on the simulator. But...

115stellarexplorer
Ago 6, 2016, 12:37 pm

Right, it sounds like it's one more piece to mull over, but not conclusive. Suggestive, I would think. And expert opinion is often hard to parse, so I don't know what to do with the Canadian expert's conclusion in >112 stellarexplorer:. I'd like to hear from another "expert" to gauge the validity. But maybe we'll have something to hang our hats on eventually.

I often envision a future Earth where the oceans are gone. The plane is revealed somewhere on the remote dry old ocean floor.

116clamairy
Ago 6, 2016, 12:52 pm

>115 stellarexplorer: But then who would be here to observe it?

Yes, several more experts in agreement with him would add undeniable weight to his statement.

117stellarexplorer
Ago 6, 2016, 12:55 pm

>116 clamairy: is that a trick question? ;)

118clamairy
Ago 6, 2016, 12:58 pm

119AnnaClaire
Ago 6, 2016, 11:03 pm

>117 stellarexplorer: >118 clamairy:
"If a tree falls in the forest..." seems to have a double meaning here, doesn't it?

120stellarexplorer
Ago 7, 2016, 12:41 am

>119 AnnaClaire: quite right!:)

121clamairy
Nov 1, 2016, 10:26 pm

"Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Likely in Steep Dive Before Crash"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-likely-in-steep-dive-be...

122stellarexplorer
Nov 2, 2016, 10:23 am

An image has periodically flashed through my mind in recent months: a future Earth, seas dried up, and a vision of the remote debris field on the dry ocean bed

123PossMan
Editado: Nov 2, 2016, 3:23 pm

And a future SF author might write about a world where the wreckage (not in one piece) is visible to all. Although if it's at a depth we're led to believe most of the earth's surface would be land.

124stellarexplorer
Nov 2, 2016, 5:43 pm

>123 PossMan: right, in my image the surface is entirely solid, the oceans having disappeared

125bernsad
Nov 2, 2016, 5:53 pm

Oh, that doesn't sound good!

126bluepiano
Editado: Nov 2, 2016, 6:18 pm

>115 stellarexplorer: Ive actually read a story set on the earth after oceans have disappeared centred on travellers crossing a dry ocean bed, probably in The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF; shall have a look, at least a cursory one, for the title of it if you like.

127stellarexplorer
Nov 2, 2016, 6:52 pm

>126 bluepiano: Thank you bluepiano. That sounds interesting. No new idea under the sun, naturally!

128PhaedraB
Nov 2, 2016, 8:31 pm

If alien explorers come here after the oceans dry up, I imagine they will be impressed with the amount of human crap to be found in the former depths.

129stellarexplorer
Nov 2, 2016, 9:35 pm

>128 PhaedraB: That's quite funny!

130SylviaC
Nov 2, 2016, 10:08 pm

>126 bluepiano: Something for my wishlist!

131bluepiano
Nov 3, 2016, 5:43 am

>127 stellarexplorer: The story is indeed in that anthology; it s "Guardians of the Phoenix" by Eric Brown.

>130 SylviaC: I have several in the Mammoth Book of . . . . series and they re all surprisingly enjoyable; I d expected them to be full of out-of-copyright pulp stuff, but they re not at all. A bonus is that I found them all remaindered. (Sorry, no apostrophe at the mo.)

133stellarexplorer
Nov 3, 2016, 10:20 pm

>132 binders: That was awesome!

134clamairy
Nov 7, 2016, 12:00 pm

>132 binders: Indeed, stellar is right. Love it! Thank you for that.

135stellarexplorer
Editado: Jan 17, 2017, 2:33 am

The official announcement came today: The underwater search for Malaysia Air Flight 370 has been terminated, the main remains or debris field not found.

136clamairy
Jan 17, 2017, 7:44 pm

>135 stellarexplorer: I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I didn't realize they were still actively searching.

137bernsad
Jan 17, 2017, 8:00 pm

>136 clamairy: I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it. I think most people would have assumed it called of a long time ago but they have been wasting extraordinary amounts of money and time looking for this.

138stellarexplorer
Jan 17, 2017, 11:01 pm

Speaking of money, the search cost $160 million. Australia has agreed to pay $60 million and China $20 million. Malaysia has paid $80 million and has agreed to pay the balance of the final search cost.

Im sure there's a good reason, but without looking into further, I'm not sure why Australia has to pay just because they are likely the closest country to the crash site. It seems awfully nice of them to have committed the huge number of hours and equipment to the effort.

139bernsad
Jan 17, 2017, 11:19 pm

Admittedly there were a number of Australians who died in the incident but I still think Australia wore a disproportionate share of the costs.

140PhaedraB
Jan 17, 2017, 11:44 pm

I think it's because of arcane clauses in treaties about who's responsible for which swath of ocean.

141bernsad
Jan 18, 2017, 12:38 am

>140 PhaedraB: Yes I think you're right but they've spent over 2 years working on it.

142stellarexplorer
Jan 18, 2017, 1:27 am

>140 PhaedraB: I'd read something to that effect, but it seems a trifle to unfair. I haven't heard much complaint voiced at least in the international media from Australia. I wonder what the view is there?

143stellarexplorer
Jan 18, 2017, 1:33 am

I found this paper from an Australian group:

https://theconversation.com/the-search-for-mh370-sharing-the-costs-fairly-46079

Making these recommendations:

A state-to-state approach

In the absence of any ICAO multilateral approach, we have argued that there may be some worth in concluding a state-to-state agreement between relevant states in the event of an accident. Such an agreement could incorporate the following six principles:

The state most proximate to the area in which an aircraft is lost would control the search and rescue operation and would fund that operation.

The state of registration/owners of the aircraft would be granted special status and consulted regarding the particulars of the search and rescue operation.

States with nationals on board the aircraft would be apprised of the parameters of the search on an ongoing basis, and would be invited to monitor that search (through physical representation or otherwise).

Reimbursement of costs incurred by the state controlling the search and rescue operation would be made at periodic intervals during the search (if lengthy) or at its conclusion, with (a) half of the costs borne equally by the state controlling the search and rescue operation and the state of registration/ aircraft owners, and (b) the remaining costs borne by states in proportion to the passengers on board.

If a state cannot afford its apportioned costs, those costs would be assumed by other states on the above basis.

The state most proximate to the area in which an aircraft is lost (in formal consultation with the state of registration/ aircraft owners), would determine when the search concludes.

It seems to us that, no matter whether a multilateral or state-to-state approach is taken, either approach may well afford a measure of certainty (and perhaps comfort) to relatives and friends of passengers.

144PossMan
Jan 18, 2017, 7:22 am

A bit OT but it seems to me that sometimes a lot of pressure comes from the families of victims for the recovery of victims' bodies. I'm thinking also of mining accidents where mines can be sealed off as being too dangerous to enter after initial efforts. Sunk fishing vessels around Scotland have also occasioned demands for recovery. I'm not sure the demands for recovery are always reasonable as the costs will often be very high. I believe there are a lot of bodies on the slopes of Everest but the mountaineers accept the risk and their families 'know the score'.

145pmackey
Mar 28, 2017, 1:12 pm

It's been over two months since the last post on this thread. Has there been any further information, such as whether the crash appears intentional or not. The only thing I've seen was the search being suspended, which I thought (with respect to the families) was overdue. Kudos to Australia for being thorough.

146stellarexplorer
Abr 3, 2017, 4:40 pm

I haven't heard anything further. It looks now like a cold case at the bottom of the ocean. One day, a billion years from now or more, the oceans will boil away and the remains of the wreckage will lie exposed. Or more likely, technology identifies it within a few decades.

147pmackey
Abr 4, 2017, 10:49 am

Or some researchers will stumble upon it while searching for something else. It's sad the plane couldn't be found to give closure to relatives and some potential answers to investigators. Still, how many thousands of years have we been sailing the ocean and the many, many wrecks that have occurred. I think it's probably a modern phenomenon thinking we can solve all disappearances. We can do a lot, but every once and a while we're reminded how truly big the ocean is.

148stellarexplorer
Abr 4, 2017, 6:50 pm

Yes, and how little we are whether we like to think so or not.

149clamairy
Abr 4, 2017, 9:29 pm

>148 stellarexplorer: Puny insignificant mortals...
:o)

150stellarexplorer
Editado: Abr 5, 2017, 12:01 am

Who've gotten just a little too taken with their own importance, a trait that rarely goes unpunished...

:0

151PossMan
Editado: Out 3, 2017, 9:52 am

There's a Guardian story here as the investigation is (officially at least) closed:-
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/03/mh370s-location-an-almost-inconcei...

There's a link on the linked page for downloading the full report PDF — nearly 40MB. I have downloaded it but haven't read it yet and quite possibly never will as obviously it won't have answers.

152stellarexplorer
Out 3, 2017, 10:34 am

If not found before, one day the oceans will burn off, and the main debris field will finally be visible on the former ocean floor somewhere.

153SylviaC
Out 3, 2017, 12:03 pm

>152 stellarexplorer: Now there’s something to look forward to...

154Muscogulus
Out 30, 2017, 1:03 pm

>152 stellarexplorer: Actually, if it doesn't happen relatively soon (like within a few millennia), the airplane debris will likely be entombed in oceanic debris and rendered all but invisible. But then I suppose any curious aliens, or humans curious about their ancestral homeworld, will have sophisticated means to scan the ocean floor for evidence of any such entombments. The question then becomes, will the 2014 Malaysian plane attract much notice amid all the other wrecks of ships and planes that have been lost under the waves?

155Cynfelyn
Out 30, 2017, 1:57 pm

>154 Muscogulus: And on a slightly longer timescale (a few hundred million years, well before the oceans boil away) the local ocean crust will probably have been subducted, along with its cargo of Anthropocene litter.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/13/extraordinary-levels-of-toxi...

156stellarexplorer
Out 30, 2017, 3:13 pm

>154 Muscogulus: >155 Cynfelyn: Yes, you are both quite right. I was being excessively romantic. On further reflection, I suspect the most likely scenario is that we humans develop better technologies for looking at the ocean floor ourselves within the next few centuries, and we locate the wreckage before the onset of the events you quite rightly point out.

157PossMan
Out 30, 2017, 3:26 pm

My prediction is that we humans will develop better technologies in a fairly short time, decades at most rather than centuries, but by that time we will have lost all interest in solving this particular problem. We may find the answer by pure chance whilst investigating something entirely different.

158stellarexplorer
Jan 10, 2018, 11:24 am

159pmackey
Jan 11, 2018, 11:04 am

>158 stellarexplorer: Wow, how will they make payroll and overhead if they don't find anything?

160stellarexplorer
Jan 11, 2018, 12:36 pm

The risks and rewards of capitalism? I kind of like when people take on projects with clear incentives and the risk of no gain, but that’s me.

161geneg
Jan 12, 2018, 11:58 am

Especially when you lose you can make someone else pay for it. That's the best part: privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Wow, can't beat that.

162clamairy
Jan 14, 2018, 3:51 pm

This is incredible news. I do hope their equipment functions as planned.

163pmackey
Jan 16, 2018, 11:42 am

Much of the search should be made easier with the use of underwater drones or underwater autonomous vehicles (UAVs). I look forward to following this story.

164PhaedraB
Jan 16, 2018, 10:54 pm

>163 pmackey: They were using drones before, but they were cabled to a ship on the surface. Now they will be using UAVs.

165PossMan
Jan 17, 2018, 7:31 am

From what I understand if success comes it will not be new technology but rather they are going to be searching a new area.

166clamairy
Fev 3, 2018, 2:52 pm

It's been 24 days. Has anyone seen even a tiny blip in the news about this? I have not. :o(

167stellarexplorer
Fev 3, 2018, 4:54 pm

Nope. But any day now....

168PossMan
Maio 14, 2018, 9:16 am

An article in the Independent (UK) claims that this was deliberate suicide/murder. I would like to see what the hard evidence is but can't say I'm surprised. Perhaps we will never know unless the plane is found (and recovered?)
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/mh370-malaysia-airlines-cap...

169stellarexplorer
Editado: Maio 14, 2018, 12:09 pm

That’s the kind of speculation we heard on day 1. The evidence for it is that there has been no other explanation found. Could be right. I’m not even doubting that the pilot is responsible. But where is the evidence? And what good is terrorism, if the public isn't terrorized? The example is given in the article of the Germanwings flight. But no one argues that was terrorism; rather a deranged and suicidal pilot.
I say drain the ocean and find the wreckage. Then put the water back ;)

170PossMan
Maio 14, 2018, 2:15 pm

>169 stellarexplorer:: A deranged suicidal pilot seems to be what the link in my post is suggesting although lucid enough to do some prior research and planning so not just "spur of the moment".

171pmackey
Maio 14, 2018, 3:25 pm

>169 stellarexplorer: I have a couple of buckets and a wet vac. When do we get started?

172stellarexplorer
Maio 14, 2018, 4:09 pm

>170 PossMan: Oops, you are right, somehow I misinterpreted. Deranged pilot. Yep, makes as much or more sense than anything else.

173stellarexplorer
Maio 14, 2018, 4:10 pm

>171 pmackey: I have another wet vac, and a basement pump. Just say the word!

174jjwilson61
Maio 14, 2018, 4:51 pm

Do you have an aqaurium to put all the fish you vacuum up?

175bluepiano
Maio 14, 2018, 6:06 pm

Oi, pm & explorer, I've been looking for ages for seaweed in bulk to make a hooked rug for the sitting room. If your vacs' filtration systems tease out the stuff and you send it on to me I'll be happy to pay postage. Only if it's no trouble, mind you. And I promise that I'd return any airplane parts you overlooked.

176pmackey
Maio 15, 2018, 5:19 am

>175 bluepiano: A hooked rug from seaweed??? Is that a thing? If so, my mind has been expanded. I'll stick with wool, thank you, though the farmers are getting angry about all the bald patches on their flocks.

177PossMan
Jan 30, 2019, 10:04 am

A newish line of inquiry reported in "The Conversation".
https://theconversation.com/mh370-new-underwater-sound-wave-analysis-suggests-al...

But will there be any money to pursue this as any new search would have to cover a large area? Perhaps in the fairly distant future the remains will be found serendipitously by someone not even looking.

178stellarexplorer
Jan 30, 2019, 10:58 am

It would be costly. You’d have to convince deep pockets of the likelihood of success. I read that and though “oh there’s another approach”, but not “I hear a call to action”.

I do think it will be discovered eventually, probably serendipitously. Although as I said upthread, I often imagine a far-future Earth, oceans boiled away as the dying sun expands, with the tiny rusted wreckage visible on the uncovered ocean floor.

179stellarexplorer
Abr 8, 2019, 10:09 pm

And now there’s this book:

The Taking of MH370
Kindle Edition
by Jeff WisE

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PBXRVN6?ref=em_1p_1_ti&ref_=pe_851910_4...

180PossMan
Abr 9, 2019, 7:38 am

>179 stellarexplorer:: Looks interesting.

181stellarexplorer
Abr 17, 2019, 11:24 am

Amazon just sent me 9 offerings of books on the missing plane. How did they know? ;)

182clamairy
Abr 17, 2019, 11:39 am

>181 stellarexplorer: I am both pleased and horrified when that happens.

183stellarexplorer
Abr 17, 2019, 11:43 am

>182 clamairy: Yes, and it’s hard to be surprised anymore, but I still shiver. One day (maybe already?) it will seem quaint and archaic to feel one’s privacy invaded.

184Macumbeira
Abr 17, 2019, 1:45 pm

If you order from Amazon through LT, they'll get you

185stellarexplorer
Abr 17, 2019, 2:51 pm

I think they’ll get you no matter what. Unless you go off the grid.

186stellarexplorer
Editado: Jun 20, 2019, 11:24 am

In the continuing narrative of “The Flight That Never Ended”, we now have this long form article in The Atlantic :

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590...

It is a good piece. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, I can tell you its main conclusions, fairly plausibly arrived at:

1. The flight was deliberately diverted and terminated.
2. The senior pilot was responsible.
3. A corrupt Malaysian government has withheld the truth about what its investigation has turned up about the pilot and his troubled inner life and likely clinical depression.
4. The Malaysian military failed to send planes to investigate while still nearby in-flight, despite having the information about its strange behavior. This is depicted in the article as negligent, not complicit.

There’s a lot more, and as an inveterate obsessive on the topic, I had to read it. I was surprised to learn how much debris has actually been recovered. I thought it was only a few pieces, but there’s more than I had realized.

187Macumbeira
Jun 19, 2019, 1:22 pm

I'll read it on the plane to Bangkok

188stellarexplorer
Editado: Jun 19, 2019, 4:02 pm

>187 Macumbeira: From the way the article portrays the role of the Malaysian government, you might not want to carry the article with you on the stopover in Kuala Lumpur

189Macumbeira
Jun 20, 2019, 12:38 am

flying over Abu dhabi : )

190PossMan
Jun 20, 2019, 6:21 am

>186 stellarexplorer::
Thank you. There was a page in The Times (London) based on this article but I'm glad for the link to this much more detailed article in the Atlantic (which The Times did acknowledge as source).

191clamairy
Jun 20, 2019, 5:53 pm

>186 stellarexplorer: Oh, thanks for this. I'll have to check it out when I have a bigger chunk of time.

192PossMan
Jul 12, 2019, 7:47 am

194stellarexplorer
Ago 2, 2019, 10:56 am

Thanks. Sad. But the main new idea there is that bereaved families don’t want to hear the “single disturbed pilot” theory. There must be conspiracy.