Posted on 07/30/2015 7:35:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My feeling is that the Boeing 777 then meandered out aimlessly over the ocean with its dead pilots till its fuel was exhausted. It was a tragic accident, not a conspiracy or crime. They turned left to come home, not to flee, steal, or murder. It just went badly wrong. The plane is in the ocean. Floating debris will turn up sooner or later, and the black boxes will tell the final story.
This is the last paragraph in my American Thinker article “Malaysia370. A tragic accident and nothing more,” published in March 2014, shortly after MH370 went missing and weird conspiracy theories were still making the rounds.
I invite readers to reread it. I took enormous abuse at the time from those who preferred space aliens, hijacking for a future flying bomb, or pilot suicide to a simple accident.
I was, of course, speculating, but using my 34-year international airline pilot experience as a guide for clues as to what was in the pilots’ minds, what their intentions were, and what might have killed them.
Let me point out that every element of the MH370 mystery has happened before and since its disappearance.
The main question is: what turned an emergency, something pilots endlessly train for, into a deadly accident?
Accidents rarely have a single cause. There is normally a chain of events or bad decision-making that leads to the crash site. That chain can often be broken by the pilots simply recognizing that a chain is developing.
But sometimes a step in the chain might be beyond the pilots’ ability to stop.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Weren’t there two Moslems in the cockpit?
Really?
No radio?
No using GPS?
No using the freaking compass?
Even WWI pilots 100 years ago would have found someplace to land NOT in the middle of the Indian Ocean
We won’t know the full story until the black boxes are recovered, but my guess is the pilot intentionally killed all of them.....................
First question.
Were pilots ROP?
If so, no further questions.
RE: Weren’t there two Moslems in the cockpit?
Of course.
Malaysia is a majority Muslin country.
Crazy talk. A rational, logical explanation for the disappearance of the airplane? That’s no fun.
“Malaysia MH370: Still a tragic accident and nothing more”
Just another useless journalist stating their opinion as fact.
One would think that an experienced pilot of 34 years would have at least considered an Islamist terrorist possibility in the article.
Don’t bother reading much beyond the headline, eh? The author is an international pilot with 34 years experience, and he clearly states that he is speculating in the excerpt posted.
The headline says otherwise. Poor choice of headline, as usual.
Nothing short of a complete electrical failure would explain it.
Is that even possible?
All speculation aside...
it does make me ponder a bit to know that I can board a freaking HUGE airplane, with modern tracking both on board and on ground...
and just disappear. vanish from existance.
... and with modern word processing, spell check, etc... still misspell ‘existence’
It’s not “impossible”, but should be no more likely than literally “Once in a billion hours of flight”.
Certainly has given CNN something to do.
Someone still needs to operate the electronics , communications and avionics packages. Crew incapacitation is certainly a possibility.
An “accident” where all tracking systems were shut off, all radio communications stopped, and the route changed multiple times that just happened to avoid radar. Sure, just an “accident”, right!
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