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Malaysian Air Flight 370: what you need to know
Flopping Aces ^ | 03-16-14 | DrJohn

Posted on 03/16/2014 5:30:23 PM PDT by Starman417

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To: Spartan302

I flew Emirates quite a bit when I was in the Mid East. They always had a Brit or American pilot on board when flying into the US.


81 posted on 03/16/2014 8:34:22 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: Everybody

Video from Reuters

Aviation expert and former pilot Sully Sullenberger saying: “The aviation industry never normally tolerates this level of ambiguity.”

“You know, many of the possibilities verge on a spy novel kind of situation. We simply don’t know. Those (unintelligible) that you mentioned are theoretically possible. The real frustration is that we are learning more about this as Mark and Bob have said very late in the process. And with the passage of time, it makes the variability in the search much greater and it makes it much harder ultimately to find out what really did happen.”

http://www.reuters.com/video/2014/03/16/miracle-on-the-hudson-pilot-weighs-in-on?videoId=294637831&videoChannel=1


82 posted on 03/16/2014 8:39:48 PM PDT by deks
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To: USAF80

I am going to plagiarize your ‘Xbox 1 seat jockeys’ term.

You are correct about the Asiana flight, but there’s even more to it. (Racist sounding rant to follow).

General aviation is not common in most Asian countries. So a kid getting some time in a Cessna or Piper is not likely.

There is a lot of rote memorization in their education system. It’s common to see the Asian student in a razor sharp uniform or a suit, and they will literally memorize the flight manual. But as for their basic stick and rudder skills........


83 posted on 03/16/2014 8:42:07 PM PDT by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: Starman417

“The jet is described as having climbed to 45,000 feet, possibly to cause the passengers and crew to lose consciousness, before plunging rapidly. “

By itself, climbing to 45,000 feet would not cause the passengers to lose consciousness.


84 posted on 03/16/2014 8:43:36 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

MPL; Multi-Crew Pilot’s License. A joke. It is the regular commercial ticket, reduced to 18 years old, but placed into an ATP cockpit. It is a disaster for safety.


85 posted on 03/16/2014 8:45:00 PM PDT by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Yes, and when you reverse 13 and add 2 (for the # of equinoxes) you get 33, another special number.

OR take 3^3 power = 27. Add the digits in 27 up and you get 9. 9 is = to 3^2, another magic number.

And look at the number 110011, that’s binary for 33 decimal. Both are Palindromes.

Honestly, my current burning question is this: The news reports the Wife and Children left their home the day before. There’s been no elaboration nor any indication that they don’t know where his family is?

Perhaps the family was kidnapped and the pilot then forced to do what he did? Perhaps one of the Iranians on board with stolen passports was a go between the kidnappers and Pilot?

But the point is, there has been no elaboration and I think right now we can figure that everything that comes out of Malaysia is a fabrication, or a moronic guess.


86 posted on 03/16/2014 8:50:20 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Standardization is an Evolutionary dead end.)
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To: Spartan302

I can go 10k on the Nevada side but, I tell you, I was amazed how only 3,000 feet more starved my lungs.

Ever watch the hang gliders as they float above the crest of Heavenly?

Really beautiful.


87 posted on 03/16/2014 8:50:55 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: bobby.223

The NATO project ran into unexpected difficulties along with number 2. Number 3 is handling SPECTRE’s new Malaysian Airlines project.


88 posted on 03/16/2014 8:51:54 PM PDT by xp38
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

LOL, we have the Young Eagles program where the parents only have to buy gas. The program is ran by pilots who donate their time and aircraft. It’s an under 18 program but they can continue under scholarship after high school.


89 posted on 03/16/2014 8:53:34 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: Usagi_yo

LOL!!


90 posted on 03/16/2014 8:54:39 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Do you by any chance read David Bay?
.


91 posted on 03/16/2014 8:54:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Starman417

Not four hours, but at least 7.

Probably almost eight hours. The last digital “handshake
‘ was at seven hours, ant the next would have been due at the eighth hour.


92 posted on 03/16/2014 8:59:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Usagi_yo

Malaysian Airlines is facing bankruptcy. Maybe they got pushed into it quicker than they planned. And their insurers, too.


93 posted on 03/16/2014 9:00:48 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Vendome

You must be a blue lodger.

Numerology is freemasonry’s #1 game.


94 posted on 03/16/2014 9:02:03 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: xp38

Damn, you are good! Perfect!!!


95 posted on 03/16/2014 9:14:14 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: CodeToad

Code Toad, I think you are being generous when you describe it as a regular commercial ticket. It’s been a long time since I read it’s description, but I recall that it had no solo time, no cross country as solo or PIC, probably no good ol’ sectional/plotter/E6B cross country planning....etc.


96 posted on 03/16/2014 9:29:52 PM PDT by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: editor-surveyor

Bingo!

Was trying to remember who here was a cowan or maybe an eavesdropper...


97 posted on 03/16/2014 10:10:47 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: editor-surveyor

Just had to look up David Bay up.

Those articles are truly astounding for their invention and contrivance.

thnx


98 posted on 03/16/2014 10:26:12 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Daily Mail has the latest, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581817/Doomed-airliner-pilot-political-fanatic-Hours-taking-control-flight-MH370-attended-trial-jailed-opposition-leader-sodomite.html


99 posted on 03/16/2014 11:27:52 PM PDT by BeadCounter (morning glory evening grace)
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