Posted on 03/14/2014 2:50:54 PM PDT by pansgold
Is the missing 777 jet is equipped with phones? Id bet it is. Id assume cellular via satellite.
With hundreds of persons onboard, why didnt 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 couldnt be immediately accessed. and turned off.
For Christs 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 its 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, its not a Skunk Works U2 spy plane or was it? Its 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 cant 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?
“Thats my theory, too. And the auto pilot took over and made corrections as it believed were needed. Thats why it was zigzagging across the sky.”
I am a Boeing 737 pilot. Please explain to me how an autopilot “takes over” and what it “believes” and why it “zigzags.”
Could a 777 land in a hard desert like most of the Middle East and Somalia have?
Radicalized Malay Muslim co-pilot disables pilot, turns off transponders and communications, then heads west toward (?) (Pakistan, Mecca, Mumbai buildings?, Petronas Towers?). Aircraft rises and falls with fight in cockpit (like 9/11 Let’s Roll! heroes over Pennsylvania). Eventually crashes into Indian Ocean or a remote island.
FYI the post is true. The CIA and military’s room full of $500,000 ea. super computers can and DO monitor every keystroke in every chat room, read every email, and hear every phone call on earth at one time and in REAL TIME.
Naturally nobody is actually listening in or reading but word recognition software IS listning for keywords and text readers take care of the rest.
Believe it.
Cray’s new XC30-AC...check it out.
The only system that wasn't turned of was not known about by the pilots because the service was part of the aircraft maintenance program which monitored the planes scheduled services to insure compliance. The airlines wished to rely on their service schedule however there is such a thing as CYA for Boeing.
Boeing was receiving data about aircraft maintenance and service to insure their scheduled maintenance was being performed by the airline.
Thanks for your service to America and for the safe delivery of thousands of passengers and tons of cargo.
I salute you sir.
My friend, you are the former airman who served America. I salute YOU.
Thanks. It was along time ago. A lifetime ago back in the Vietnam days.
Its in a hanger somewhere ...... waiting on a dirty bomb.... or a stolen nuke. And the muslims guarding it are watching porn on the flight movie system....
You are both probably right on the money. Like you, every day fewer and fewer believe it crashed.

Here I was... 15 years ago. Now I'm old and gray. Life member to the GPAA and LDMA.
You’re probably right. It was taken by aliens.
So, you’re a pilot. That means you and I will never meet at your place of work. I don’t get in filthy tubes.
Some probably get confused because of the "GPS" which they equate to satellites.
Then, you would have to ignore all the dead spots which wouldn't be such if phones could go direct to satellites.
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Crimea?
Ukraine?
Russians?
Chinese?
Part of B. Hussein O.'s "flexibility."
Whatever it was, I sniff evil...IMHO.
Is it time to start stalking and picking off the operators of this equipment on their way to or from work, in preemptive self-defense?
Empty operating weights run from 150 to 185 tons.
Max Gross Takeoff Weights run from 270 to 387 tons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777
Heavy bird!
BTW, we had a C-5 visit MCAS New River, NC. I assume that it was basically empty, but our longest runway is 5,114ft. I was told the C-5 got off in a little over 3,000 ft.
The C-17 can operate from dirt runways, but of course has much better landing gear. It’s Max GTOW is 292 tons.
It can use shorter and thinner runways if it's hauling potato chips :-)
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