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...Investigators search co-pilot's home and reveal home-made flight sim built by plane's captain
Daily Mail ^
| March 15, 2014
| By WILLS ROBINSON and RICHARD SHEARS
Posted on 03/15/2014 12:39:09 PM PDT by Lazamataz
- Officials confirmed missing plane was hijacked by one or several people
- Could have turned off communication system and steered it off-course
- Now believed plane could have flown for another seven hours
- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak refused to confirm the reports
- Investigators working to establish motive and where plane was taken
- Both captain and co-pilot are now said to be under investigation
- Police raided the pair's luxury homes in upmarket Kuala Lumpur suburb
Investigators say the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was hijacked, steered off-course and could have reached Pakistan. A Malaysian government official said people with significant flying experience could have turned off the flight's communication devices. The representative said that hijacking theory was now 'conclusive', and, as a result, police have raided the luxury homes of both the captain and the co-pilot.
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To: El Cid
I think it’s the question they want to answer. Did he use it practice making the 777 invisible?
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posted on
03/15/2014 12:51:53 PM PDT
by
virgil
To: Lazamataz
From everything I've read, the captain appears to be something of a British-style eccentric aviation geek - but I don't consider him a suspect.
The first officer? Maybe...
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posted on
03/15/2014 12:52:35 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
To: jocon307
Did the copilot & the girls qualify for the Mile High Club?
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posted on
03/15/2014 12:54:00 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: Lazamataz
real stupid and weak to allow Muslims to be pilots!
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posted on
03/15/2014 12:55:42 PM PDT
by
fabian
(" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
To: NativeTxn
... I saw an article after the plane went missing about two women that flew on that plane the first leg of the flight. They said that they were invited to sit in the cockpit with the pilots. They did and one of the pilots was smoking on the flight and they all just talked and had a conversation...It happened as you said but in 2011, I believe.
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posted on
03/15/2014 12:56:32 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
“aahhh.... Tower, this is Flight 828 Heavy.... yo, WHAT UP DAWG!!!!”
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posted on
03/15/2014 12:56:46 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Lazamataz; humblegunner
And we all drink huge sodas in NY!
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posted on
03/15/2014 12:56:58 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Sarah Barracuda
All Right Good Night is not normal pilot lingo Most times when the controller sends you to the next controller, they end with "Good Day"
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Whats with the alarmist headline? Its reasonable, and fairly common for a commercial airliner pilot to have a simulator at home. Also, far from being "revealed", the existence of the Captain's simulator rig has been common knowledge since shortly after the incident.
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:01:46 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: Lazamataz
To: Veggie Todd
Sheila Jackson Lee says the plane has been missing for 400 years. and that the pilot had a stimulator in his bedroom, similar to the cordless model she has....................
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:03:27 PM PDT
by
varon
(Para bellum)
To: FReepaholic
Thanks! I must have read that article in a hurry.
To: ifinnegan
“Worst case scenario, pilots involved in commandeering plane for later use in delivery of nuke.”
The best way to transport a nuke is stencil “tractor parts” on a crate and have UPS deliver it. About 20 years ago I interviewed an antiquities smuggler. He had stone statues and pottery figures weighing a lot. I asked him how he did it and he said, “When you land in Central America there are billboards telling you they’ll smuggle your stuff. I hand it over to them. They know all the shippers. They stenciled things like “Reproduction” on the bottom and put it in a shipping container full of reproductions at the back. Two weeks later UPS drops it off at my house.”
To: Lazamataz
There has been a lot of confusion on this a/c range... the Washington Post Range Map is for a 777-200, MH370 was a 777-200ER (Extended Range) It has a range of over 7,000 miles.
British Airways operates a daily flight in a 200ER from Beijing to London. That's real close to the Longitude where 370 disappeared.
This airplane is in the Mideast somewhere
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:06:07 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Just one of many stupid, alarmist musings surrounding MH370.
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:06:36 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: Dan(9698)
CNN is saying the the shutting off of the communications transponders began before the “all right, good night” transmission. Sounds like they’ll be doing some voice recognition analysis.
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:07:58 PM PDT
by
virgil
To: Lazamataz
Is “sim” an abbreviation of stimulator?
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:08:51 PM PDT
by
COUNTrecount
(There's no there there.)
To: Lazamataz; a fool in paradise
I’d better self-censor the games I have on my puter. Just in case they shed light on my future plans after those plans have been executed..
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:10:26 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: COUNTrecount
Is sim an abbreviation of stimulator? yes -- but without the tea.
To: virgil
And a good question it is...
That would not be a common maneuver nor one to perform incorrectly when the time came.
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posted on
03/15/2014 1:13:39 PM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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