They are on a mission from God!"
Posted on 03/14/2014 2:50:54 PM PDT by pansgold
Is the missing 777 jet is equipped with phones? I’d bet it is. I’d assume cellular via satellite.
With hundreds of persons onboard, why didn’t one person make a phone call? The plane did. It “pinged” at least one satellite for hours after other systems went dark. It appears to me someone forgot to shut that one system down or it was in a location it couldn’t be immediately accessed. and turned off.
For Christ’s sake, as the World Trade Center towers were about to fall, people were calling out and sending video clips and photos via cell phone. When planes were hijacked on 9/11/2001, the people in them were calling out to family with cell phones or using the phones on the plane that went through satellites.
IF the plane went down, why no debris alone it’s scheduled flight path?
IF the plane was hijacked, by pirates why no ransom demand?
WHY would anyone steal the plane? Every part in it could be purchased and duplicated by North Korea, China, Russia, or any oil rich nation. Face it, it’s not a Skunk Works U2 spy plane… or was it? It’s been done before and the planes were shot down “straying” over things not intended to be seen.
WHY would anyone want anything that eats fuel like a 777 that can’t land at any airport in the world?
WHAT would any hijacker do with hundreds of people? Toss them out of the plane? Doubtful.
Ask yourself this. If this is as confusing as it is, what authority has the power to keep it from us?
They are on a mission from God!"
Is it at all possible that a person that got stowed away in baggage, could get through some ducts, hatch door and gotten into the cabin area?
So do you think there were calls from the plane that the public hasn’t been told about?
Perhaps -- though this was in the far South Pacific and I don't know that this airline offered that service. And, if they did offer it, how many people had paid for it?
It's not to be taken for granted that cellphone service was available. You'll have to remember that on 9/11, passengers on the doomed aircraft were picking up local wireless signals. They were in highly-populated areas and flying at abnormally low altitudes.
I can't say you're wrong, just trying to analyze the odds.
I’d buy that. Someone knows where it went and what happened to those on the plane. I don’t believe for a second it crashed.
I also believe in the “Grassy Knoll” theroy too. Crazy me.
I trust the governmet to tell me all about it and to tell the truth.
I still believe in Santa too at 65.
The passengers and crew were in on it.
You seriously need to put away the comic books.
You are 100% correct. There is no cellular service available outside the plane.
There is an internal receiver (much like another cell phone) that receives your cellular call. A computer asks for a credit card number and after it’s verified via satellites, your cellular call is rerouted to the satellite phone. This is basically how the system works but it handles more that one call at a time.
Could be. Shush up! They are listening...
What do the Malaysian shamans say about this????
Things were bad at home with one of the two pilots --he was losing his spouse and his kids. Maybe he also has some professional problems with the airline --impending job loss?
He kills the other pilot, then depressurizes the plane to knock out all the passengers. He briefly hears a banging on the cockpit door, but it subsides after 1 minute, then stops totally: the widely-imagined battle royal for survival by the passengers is a non-event. He shuts down both transponders and all comms.
He flies on, on oxygen, contemplating his life, the passengers meanwhile dying from oxygen deprivation. He turns the plane dramatically, beginning a suicidal dive, plunging 40,000 feet in just one minute, only to chicken out.
He flies on for hours, silently trying to summon up the courage to end it all. His indecision is overtaken by his fuel situation, and on vapors he finally slams into the ocean, knocking himself out and dying.
Scenario 2: Hijack
The two Lothario pilots invite the 2 most attractive women on the plane into the cockpit, the better to impress them with their studly technical skill. This habit of theirs had been previously noted by other more radical passengers and quietly passed up the command chain, who dispatched comely young women to "coincidentally" fly in their plane.
During their cockpit party the pilots are overcome by a sedative secreted into their drinks. The women unlock the cockpit door, later accessed by a completely calm and properly trained hijack pilot clicking a pen and holding a clip-board --as with the previous scenario there is no life-or-death fight with the passengers.
He throws aside his silly name-tage and clip-board and immediately depressurizes the plane --the passengers are knocked out and later die. The transponders are turned off, they dive for the deck and turn to their destination four hours away --a 4,000 foot airstrip controlled by their fellow believers.
Immediately upon touching down the spoilers are activated, they apply maximum brake pressure and hit the thrust reversers on the pair of massive engines --the plane lurches, strains and jostles, but rolls to a halt at the very edge of their makeshift runway.
Dented technicals --pickups packed with angry-looking armed men-- stream onto the strip, guiding the behemoth aircraft packed with suffocated passengers to a rocky crag, with burly, bearded men camouflaging the aircraft even as the engines spool down.
“Worldwide satellite communications are Now available for in-flight communication for passengers to receive and make calls during a flight. The price on board Malaysia Airlines flight for in-flight communication is approximately 2.51 pounds per minute. In-flight Internet is Not available to passengers on board of Malaysia Airlines for emailing, VOID and conferencing.”
http://www.air-valid.co.uk/malaysia-airlines/in-flight-entertainment.html
So, they do have satellite phone service, but only for a charge, so I am assuming those are only for the airphones, and that your cell phone wouldn’t work. There is no in-flight internet on their flights.
Well I don’t know. If they have a 7,000 ft long 7 foot thick concrete reinforce runway that’s hidden from our satellites, that’s news to us all and perhaps they can say something.
Thanks. It ain’t cheep but it’s there IF you want it.
They’ll have to get back to you on that. They got hungry and ate one of their magic coconuts, so the signals from beyond are not coming in clearly at the moment.
I still think it was a mechanical failure and/or the high tech part of the plane went bonkers and the pilots tried to take over the plane manually but failed in the end to safely do so....now the fear of hijacking/landing it for later re-use of terrorism etc....to say nothing of the passengers horror if the worst has come to pass....SOMETHING HAS HAPPEN TO IT, SOMETHING VERY BAD, VERY, VERY BAD....
Then explosive decompression might have solved the passenger problem.
A redeye is a flight where 15% of the people are asleep, 60% are trying unsuccessfully to sleep more than 20 minutes at a stretch, and the rest have given up, and are just trying not to bother anyone else.
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