Flight 370

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Seriously though, something will likely turn up, and maybe it already has. They could be temporarily holding something back (though unlikely with all the people involved in the search) or, it may just be a matter of not being entirely sure where they should be looking .... or looking in the wrong place.

Either way it's more or less irrelevant. Those people are sadly gone and you and me knowing the gritty details the second they come in ain't going to change that
 
Why don't planes use GPS tracker like Spot? They don't rely on Radar.
 
Neil_V said:
Seriously though, something will likely turn up, and maybe it already has. They could be temporarily holding something back (though unlikely with all the people involved in the search) or, it may just be a matter of not being entirely sure where they should be looking .... or looking in the wrong place.

Either way it's more or less irrelevant. Those people are sadly gone and you and me knowing the gritty details the second they come in ain't going to change that
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They've already said "There are some things we can tell you and some things we can't tell you".
 
My guess is aliens or terrorizers. For complete updates google alex jones lol
 
three possibilities, it had the same RR engines as the last one the blew an engine mid flight, that would be bad. Could have been pilot error, the air france flight that went down in the Atlantic had a pilot pulling back on the joy stick all the way down which contributed to the stall ( you nose down to build airspeed then pull up) . Or those 2 (and maybe 4 now) stolen/ fake passports were being carried by really bad people.For those that don't fly a lot, that thing where they check your passport at the ramp and security, they are really just checking the name on the boarding pass and picture and name match, it ain't connected to Interpol so if its a stolen passport you can still get on a plane in most countries. Feeling safer now?
 
crankcall said:
For those that don't fly a lot, that thing where they check your passport at the ramp and security, they are really just checking the name on the boarding pass and picture and name match, it ain't connected to Interpol so if its a stolen passport you can still get on a plane in most countries. Feeling safer now?
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Statistically? When compared to my daily commute? I'll still take the odds on a plane.... But yeah, it's just like everything else, good guys may build a wall, and bad guys look for ways through/over/under or around it.
 
mmmnaked said:
I can see how a full-out power failure can create a situation where communications with the plane are impossible. From there on, as soon as radar control loses sight, it's game over. They're searching a colossal area, not such an easy task.

Disheartening for sure, though.
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It's almost impossible for all power systems to fail like that, those planes have huge redundancies when it comes to critical (and even non-critical) components. Even if they did lose both engines and the APU, they'd have batteries and the ram air turbine for electricity.

I have a friend who thinks it is a situation similar to Air France 447. Pilot stalls the plane and falls straight into the drink from 40k feet. That would minimize the debris field. I don't think the pilot(s) radioed for help during that fall, too.
 
If it was a stall, there may have been no radio call because the mandate beat into pilots is radio last. Remember the guy that landed his plane on the Hudson river? radio was very terse and short, the rule is Aviate, Navigate, Communicate in that order. 777's glide pretty well, so 30,000ft to ocean would be about 3 min trip. If there was an explosion on board and all power went out its 1min down.
 
cbcanada said:
I am surprised the toronto yuppy left is not blaming this one on rob ford too.
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Says the person that thought to bring his name up in a thread about a downed airplane on the other side of the world...!? Not enough Rob Ford discusions going on in other places for you?
 
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