Breaking: Unresponsive Aircraft flying over atlantice

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f-15s-dispatched-unresponsive-aircraft-over-atlantic-n196776 ^ | today | NBC

[Colehill1999]

unresponsive aircraft over atlantic, USAF in pursuit

[Dog]

Did it just turn toward Jamaica?

[bubbacluck]

If it’s on auto pilot even though the speed is falling it will try to stay at programmed altitude and heading?

[Darksheare]

Location: Flight aware approximate

Probably engine just shutdown, track lost.

[RitaOK]

You are late.

[Mat_Helm]

Flightradar24 stopped updating so must be down now with no updates coming in from transponder.

[Dog]

Flight aware just went funky on me...

[no-to-illegals]

Fire, Water and Ice.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep. tracking is down for me.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, earlier it was mentioned that if the engine quits, transponder goes south.
Flightaware would lose the track then.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Torque and power and settings are lost when power goes out due to fuel exhaustion. From an altitude that high, in a small plane, it could twist nearly anywhere ...

If they were not at high altitude (deadly altitude) for so long, coming down towards sea level might allow recovery.

But, after hours of flight with no oxygen, no. Not likely.

[RitaOK]

Ive heard nothing of Jamaica. Last report in Cuba air space but over the ocean and declining, speed slowing.

[struggle]

Yeah, both flightradar and Flightaware seem to be glitching. The plane’s probably disappeared by now.

[God'sgrrl]

Altitude going up and down.

[Sergio]

When pressure is lost in the cabin, the windows frost on the inside.

Frosted windows = no pressure and not enough O2 to maintain consciousness.

[driftdiver]

When a plane experiences sudden loss of pressurization the windows will fog up.

It means they have insufficient oxygen and have probably passed out.

[b4its2late]

It’s gone

[Darksheare]

Same here.

[Mat_Helm]

Looks like Lat 19.5831 Lon -76.7362

[RitaOK]

Amen.

[Billthedrill]

Not sure of the full implications here of why it is bad.

It means basically that the inside atmosphere has become the same as the outside, freezing the ambient moisture on the inside surface of the windows. There isn't enough oxygen at that altitude to keep the pilot conscious without supplementation.