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This Is The Most Plausible Theory For The Plane's Disappearance We've Heard Yet...
BI ^ | 3-18-2014 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 03/18/2014 5:14:03 AM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 03/18/2014 5:14:03 AM PDT by blam
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Furious Relatives Threaten Hunger Strike Over Malaysian Handling Of Missing Jet Search
2 posted on 03/18/2014 5:19:50 AM PDT by blam
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The oil rig worker said he thinks he saw the plane on fire in the air. Never heard any more about that.


3 posted on 03/18/2014 5:22:12 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Makes sense to a non-aircraft educated person.


4 posted on 03/18/2014 5:22:13 AM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (If stupid ever reaches $150 a barrel then I want the drilling rights to Maxine Water's head.)
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Good article. Makes sense.


5 posted on 03/18/2014 5:22:38 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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Plausible Schmausible.

I am holding on to my SPACE ALIENS theory

6 posted on 03/18/2014 5:23:35 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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cue the “aliens” guy


7 posted on 03/18/2014 5:23:35 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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“that Flight 370 slipped in behind another commercial airliner for much of the route so as not to be noticed on radar. “

I don’t think that would help. If they were that close, someone would notice.


8 posted on 03/18/2014 5:24:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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What on takeoff would cause tires to hit 500 degrees?


9 posted on 03/18/2014 5:25:38 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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I think it tailgated a Portugal bound jet and landed in Pakistan a long time ago.


10 posted on 03/18/2014 5:26:28 AM PDT by Spartan302
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You would think. Would the pilot being tailgated question it and call it in?


11 posted on 03/18/2014 5:28:18 AM PDT by jersey117
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And it’s one of the most plausible yet:

Shortly after takeoff, as Malaysia 370 was flying out over the ocean, just after the co-pilot gave his final “Good night” sign-off to Malaysia air traffic control, smoke began filling the cockpit, perhaps from a tire on the front landing gear that had ignited on takeoff
The captain immediately did exactly what he had been trained to do: Turn the plane toward the closest airport so he could land.
The closest appropriate airport was called Pulau Langkawi. It had a massive 13,000-foot runway. The captain programmed the destination into the flight computer. The auto-pilot turned the plane west and put it on a course right for the runway (the same heading the plane turned to)
The captain and co-pilot tried to find the source of the smoke and fire. They switched off electrical “busses” to try to isolate it, in the process turning off systems like the transponder and ACARs automated update system (but not, presumably, the auto-pilot, which was flying the plane). They did not issue a distress call, because in a mid-air emergency your priorities are “aviate, navigate, communicate” — in that order. But smoke soon filled the cockpit and overwhelmed them (a tire fire could do this). The pilots passed out or died.
Smoke filled the cabin and overwhelmed and distracted the passengers and cabin crew... or the cockpit door was locked and/or the cockpit was filled with smoke, so no one could enter the cockpit to try to figure out where the plane was, how the pilots were, or how the plane might be successfully landed. (This would be a complicated task, even if one knew the pilots were unconscious and had access to the cockpit, especially if most of the plane’s electrical systems were switched off or damaged)
With no one awake to instruct the auto-pilot to land, the plane kept flying on its last programmed course... right over Pulau Langkawi and out over the Indian Ocean. The engine-update system kept “pinging” the satellite. Eventually, 6 or 7 hours after the incident, the plane ran out of fuel and crashed.


12 posted on 03/18/2014 5:30:06 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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I think that’s the lamest scenario I’ve read yet. It assumes that two pilots could not utter a simple phase: Ground control, smoke in the cockpit. Pilots can speak and do other tasks simultaneously.


13 posted on 03/18/2014 5:33:08 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Christian, Freeper, Tea Party Member, Bitter Clinger, Creepy White Cracker)
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What I think happened is that they were overcome by smoke and the plane just continued on the heading probably on George (autopilot) until either fuel exhaustion or fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed.

The problem with this theory is that it doesn't appear to be supported by data from the satellite receiving the engine diagnostics.

14 posted on 03/18/2014 5:33:12 AM PDT by fso301
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And it’s one of the most plausible yet:
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In this scenario, there is plenty of time to make a MAYDAY radio call stating the problem and their intentions. Since this wasn’t done, I don’t think it is too plausible.


15 posted on 03/18/2014 5:33:43 AM PDT by aviator (Armored Pest Control)
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If on auto-pilot with an incapacitated crew. . .why was it flown to 44,000 ft?


16 posted on 03/18/2014 5:34:16 AM PDT by McBuff
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Last I heard its possible to stay a thousand feet back and actually several thousand feet lower and any radr in that area would see just one, would not work in CONUS and heavily populated or military areas. It would work there.

I tell yo what I had a pair of F15’s just taking off in Anchorage (F somethings)as I was flying a Cessna 150 over Point McKenzie, I was in the wrong place and corridor and I never heard them until they went by me.

If a pilot did think something was there what to do? A big circle?


17 posted on 03/18/2014 5:35:04 AM PDT by Spartan302
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...smoke began filling the cockpit, perhaps from a tire on the front landing gear that had ignited on takeoff. The captain immediately did exactly what he had been trained to do: Turn the plane toward the closest airport so he could land...

Wouldn’t you think the pilots would have signaled a distress call. Come on.


18 posted on 03/18/2014 5:35:51 AM PDT by McGruff (They say the first casualty of war is truth)
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Flying With Fish ‏@flyingwithfish 13h 3-of-3 (3A): My #MH370 Recap of the Day - DHS source - Land based search is not possible for many reasons, including hostile nations
Flying With Fish ‏@flyingwithfish 13h 3-of-3: My #MH370 Recap of the Day - DHS source - Aircraft already likely well hidden and would only be found by land-based search

Flying With Fish ‏@flyingwithfish 13h 2-of-3: My #MH370 Recap of the Day - DHS source - Gov’t pissing matches & suppress info, US included, drastically hampered investigation
19 posted on 03/18/2014 5:36:11 AM PDT by RummyChick
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It may be the most plausible yet... However does it handle the non transmissions from the ELT?

ELTs are self powered and contained units, one forward and one aft.


20 posted on 03/18/2014 5:38:54 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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