Mapped: The 634 runways where missing Malaysia Airlines plane could have landed

Daily Mirror UK ^ | March 15, 2014 | By Steve Robson

[B4Ranch]

Landing length depends on total weight. Use of full reverse thrusters can shorten the distance substantially. A plane that’s low on fuel requires a shorter runway.

Takeoff also and the rate of climb also depends on weight of the aircraft. Get rid of the passengers with their luggage and airliners almost jump into the air if they get a rolling start. A low rate of climb decreases the needed runway because the plane can stay in ground effect while it gathers airspeed.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yeh -- the Pakistani terrorists have a newly painted fleet of them but they can't find anywhere to fly them to.

Lack of stewardesses. That's the problem. :)

[Neidermeyer]

Except that if the plane had landed successfully, ACARS would have sent a message to Rolls Royce saying that the engines had been powered off.
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Without knowledge of those systems but using your words as a guide , I would say that a successful landing was still possible without a message being generated ... simply placing a metal barrier over the sat uplink antenna would prevent the message as would taxiing into a metal hangar ..

[Uri’el-2012]

My thoughts are to look for a landing field capable of supporting the characteristics of the plane in question.

Then draw an arc of the length of the distance flown as defined by the RR engine feed back Search along the arc for a landing field capable of landing the 777

[DAC21]

“The 777 doesn’t need 7000 ft to land 3500 would be workable with light load”

There was a link to a YouTube Video on a thread a couple days back. The Video was of an Air Emirates 777 landing using full reverse thrusters, it was amazing how little runway it needed.

[Big Giant Head]

Wondering why nothing is said about what was in the cargo and how much fuel was loaded into flight 370 before takeoff. Might have been more fuel than usual. Has anyone heard of these reports — if any.

THAT is what I'm waiting for. Aircraft burn 10% of any excess fuel carried, because of the extra weight that excess fuel weighs. So they're keen to fuel the aircraft for the leg, with weights, winds, distance all figured, along with reserves to reach an alternate destination. Any more fuel than that will cost the airline that excess fuel burn penalty in $ so they typically don't do that.

Finding out if the pilot had the airplane fueled above and beyond the operational necessity would indicate that he was involved in the plot. The range is based on fuel aboard, so if they were planning an 'event', a little extra curricular activity, they'd have fueled for it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.