Malaysia Airlines loses contact with passenger jet

Bazza · Aug 5, 2015

Catfish said:
Hi. Apparently we've never met. We're the men of the Non-Sports forum. And you are???

lol.....

Tidewater · Aug 5, 2015

Sky News has an animated maps showing who debris would have floated around the Indian Ocean since the disappearance. There could well be debris turn up on Madagascar by now as well.

Bazza · Aug 5, 2015

Tidewater said:
Sky News has an animated maps showing who debris would have floated around the Indian Ocean since the disappearance. There could well be debris turn up on Madagascar by now as well.

Interesting. I wouldn't think the flight recorder or black box will ever be recovered now that we know it went down in the water.

Here's the link if anyone is interested.....

http://news.sky.com/video/1530596/mh370-debris-ocean-drift-animation

mittman · Aug 5, 2015

Bazza said:
Interesting. I wouldn't think the flight recorder or black box will ever be recovered now that we know it went down in the water.

Here's the link if anyone is interested.....

http://news.sky.com/video/1530596/mh370-debris-ocean-drift-animation

Yup, they appear to have been looking in the right place though.

crimsonaudio · Sep 3, 2015

Confirmed: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/europe/mh370-investigation/index.html

Tidewater · Sep 3, 2015

crimsonaudio said:
Confirmed: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/europe/mh370-investigation/index.html

There may be some who say that this part fell off or was removed from the plane after it landed at its secret location.

crimsonaudio · Sep 3, 2015

Tidewater said:
There may be some who say that this part fell off or was removed from the plane after it landed at its secret location.

Could very well be true. They should be able to tell if it's been floating in the ocean for a year or more, I'd think.

Tidewater · Sep 3, 2015

crimsonaudio said:
Could very well be true. They should be able to tell if it's been floating in the ocean for a year or more, I'd think.

In the video I saw, it had barnacles attached. I'm sure that can be faked as well.

Bamaro · Sep 4, 2015

crimsonaudio said:
Could very well be true. They should be able to tell if it's been floating in the ocean for a year or more, I'd think.

That wont stop them.

TIDE-HSV · Sep 4, 2015

Bamaro said:
That wont stop them.

No, nothing will. The fact of the matter is that some parts of the plane were buoyant and others not...

Tidewater · Sep 4, 2015

TIDE-HSV said:
No, nothing will. The fact of the matter is that some parts of the plane were buoyant and others not...

I have this mental image of CIA specialists gluing fake barnacles to the flaperon in a secret lab before throwing it into the Indian Ocean off Reunion Island.

TIDE-HSV · Sep 4, 2015

Tidewater said:
I have this mental image of CIA specialists gluing fake barnacles to the flaperon in a secret lab before throwing it into the Indian Ocean off Reunion Island.

Weirder things have been done, I understand...

Tidewater · Sep 4, 2015

TIDE-HSV said:
Weirder things have been done, I understand...

For the record, I am convinced that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean and its disappearance was a tragic accident.
I just wish it was more difficult to switch off the transponders so rescue efforts would have known where to look within a relevant timeframe. I realize the captain must have authority to take steps he deems necessary to ensure the safety of his ship and crew/passengers, but there needs to be some serious extenuating circumstances for a flight captain to do this.
Of course, maybe whoever did this knew what he was doing and was trying to kill himself (like the German Wings guy).

TIDE-HSV · Sep 4, 2015

Tidewater said:
For the record, I am convinced that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean and its disappearance was a tragic accident.
I just wish it was more difficult to switch off the transponders so rescue efforts would have known where to look within a relevant timeframe. I realize the captain must have authority to take steps he deems necessary to ensure the safety of his ship and crew/passengers, but there needs to be some serious extenuating circumstances for a flight captain to do this.
Of course, maybe whoever did this knew what he was doing and was trying to kill himself (like the German Wings guy).

I agree with everything you've said. Because of when the transponder went off and the strange deviation in course, I've always believed the last sentence. It's likely that the culprit locked the other pilot out to accomplish his deed. In fact, I've always considered Witz to be a copycat...

Tidewater · Sep 4, 2015

TIDE-HSV said:
I agree with everything you've said. Because of when the transponder went off and the strange deviation in course, I've always believed the last sentence. It's likely that the culprit locked the other pilot out to accomplish his deed. In fact, I've always considered Witz to be a copycat...

Boy, if investigators could establish that fact, it would really amend thinking about airplane security. I know the German Wings tragedy/mass murder has caused airlines to rethink some things, but if we could prove that German Wings was a copycat of Malaysian Airlines, that would really urge reconsideration (which I assume is ongoing anyway). Being able to just lock the cockpit door without the possibility of anyone being able to re-open it is no longer good policy.

Displaced Bama Fan · Jan 24, 2016

Debris washed up in Thailand.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/24/asia/thailand-debris-mh370-investigation/

Displaced Bama Fan · Jan 28, 2016

More debris. Now in Malaysia.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...-coast/ar-BBoODSw?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

Tidewater · Jan 28, 2016

Displaced Bama Fan said:
More debris. Now in Malaysia.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...-coast/ar-BBoODSw?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

It would be really great if, by backtracking the debris, and matching to ocean currents, they could find the black box and give the families some small bit of closure.

TrampLineman · Jan 28, 2016

It will be hard to find unless the plane is still somewhat together. I think after 30 days those beacons go dead so it would take a miracle. Not sure what all the salt water has done to it either being underwater that long.

Of course I hope I'm wrong and they find it and are able to figure out what happened.

Gr8hope · Mar 6, 2016

Man who found MH370 flight part finds new item on Reunion

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/0...o-found-mh370-flight-part-finds-new-item.html

"Begue found a wing fragment known as a flaperon on July 29 that French investigators identified in September as part of the passenger jet that disappeared with 239 people aboard on March 8, 2014.

Begue said that unlike the flaperon there were no barnacles on the latest item, which he said was square and estimated that it measured 40 by 40 centimeters (about 15.5 by 15.5 inches)."

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