Posted on 03/26/2014 6:56:23 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'It was his last joyride': MH370 pilot was upset over wife moving out and in 'no state of mind to be flying', reveals his long-time friend
MH370 pilot devastated by his marriage breakdown
He warns Zaharie could have taken MH370 on a 'last joyride' and that the crew wouldn't have known something was wrong 'until it was too late’
It follows reports the doomed flight climbed to 43,000ft moments before disappearing from radar
It stayed at that altitude for 23 minutes, but oxygen would have run out after just 12 minutes, rendering passengers and crew unconscious
Expert says plane would have flown on until it ran out of fuel
While families of victims of MH370 are expected to start arriving in Perth as soon as the debris is confirmed as belonging to the plane
The Australian Prime Minister warned the search can't go on indefinitely
The pilot of doomed flight MH370 was distraught over his wife’s decision to move out of their family home and could have taken the plane for a ‘last joyride’ before it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean killing all 239 people on board, says a long-time friend of the pilot.
The friend, also a pilot, said Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had been left rattled by his family problems, and didn’t appear to be in the right state of mind to be flying. He warned that it was ‘very possible that neither the passengers nor the other crew on-board knew what was happening until it was too late’.
‘He's one of the finest pilots around and I'm no medical expert, but with all that was happening in his life Zaharie was probably in no state of mind to be flying,’ he told the NZ Herald on the condition of anonymity.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Except the plane could not maintain a cabin altitude of less then 10k feet at that altitude, requiring supplemental oxygen.
No worries...
Sheila Jackson Lee will make sure something like this never happens again.
/s
Now he tells authorities!
The people who write these articles clearly have zero understanding of hypoxia and aircraft pressurization.
RE: Cabin pressure. If the cabin looses pressure those masks will automatically drop down. Not knowing the workings of a 777 I don’t know if the pilot can shut off cabin pressure since the engines supply the oxygen through compressors. If he was able to turn off cabin pressure and the standby oxygen is depleted, at 40,000ft you’ll last about 15-20 seconds.
Exactly right. If it was indeed a terrorist attack that brought down the plane would you want to be the Malaysian government facing Chinese officials to tell them that? A fall guy is a better option for now as long as they can’t find the plane. Is it me or does it seem that the Malaysians are in no hurry to find that plane and its black box?
...and with flight attendants having a code to enter the cockpit...
First off, the human body can tolerate altitude up to ~18 to 20,000 feet without hypoxia being an issue, i.e. no supplimental O2 required. But even that aside, the pressure is controlled by an electronic relief valve that can be set to higher or lower equivalent altitudes by the captain. The only issue becomes the pressure differential that the pressure shell is designed for. Since the service ceiling of the 777 is ~42,000ft I would assume they intended the shell to be able to handle a normal cabin pressure at that altitude.
This was discussed by aviation experts as having occurred at the limit of the range of Kuala Lumpur’s radar.
It was explained as a radar error.
We may never know for sure; the black boxes’ data have been overwritten for that event.
Exactly! Did this so-called friend just crawl out of a hole and realize his friend’s plane had gone missing and presumed crashed?
Really?
I’m not buying this story.
There’s also a very, very narrow flight envelope at that altitude. Which is why it is above the aircraft’s flight ceiling (stall danger).
“We’ve got satellites that can read Russian license plates from 200 miles up - pretty hard to hide a large plane on the ground without ever being seen”
That’s one of the things that’s so troubling. A license plate on the ground is infinitely smaller than the 72 ft. piece of floating debris that was picked up by satellite, yet it still hasn’t been identified. What the heck is going on here?
I probably saw/heard the same interview. Very, very narrow flight envelope.
However, I also heard the climb rate reported by the radar was impossible by a commercial aircraft.
Without the data, who knows.
that’s correct, i’m just assuming it ran out of the fuel in the end and crashed.
I thought the recorders only record the last half hour. I’m not sure that in the scenario painted they can help pinpoint the cause. The cause of the crash would be running out of fuel...
People do not understand how devastating and horrible divorce is and demand that those going through it “Move on.” And go to silly psychologists who say dumb things like “Love yourself.”
So, now the lives of all passengers, their loved ones, this pilot’s wife and kids are all ruined.
Those interested and having the time might want to check out this forum/thread
And here is some information on the ‘Inmarsat ping data analysis’ (insufficient for me):
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=740971779281171&id=178566888854999
If I were the Malaysian PM, I would rather tell the Chinese PM that a terrorist or fire or mechanical error took it down, than tell him that their pilot with women problems went crazy and diverted the flight, killed everybody in the first 23 minutes, and then flew the plane for 7 hours into the south Indian Sea.
Upset pilot tanked the plane? Why not? It’s just as credible as the other “theories” out there with zero proof & all speculation.
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