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Terrific! Batteries on Missing #MH370 Black Box Were [NOT!] Expired, Due to Be Replaced
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 4-5-2014 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 04/05/2014 10:18:12 AM PDT by servo1969

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To: Viennacon
Time to call BS on this entire thing. As if it would take them this long to make that known!

If I had to make a choice between reality and incompetent reporting, I would just wait.

41 posted on 04/05/2014 11:27:26 AM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Batteries are shelf life items. They have a date when they are considered “expired” before they are installed. Once they are installed in equipment, they also have a standard useful life based on the battery type and the typical draw of the equipment they are in. Just because they are past their shelf life or installed useful life doesn’t mean they won’t work. These designations are somewhat arbitrary.


42 posted on 04/05/2014 11:27:31 AM PDT by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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To: publius911

No government is this inefficient. Somalia would have handled it better. Something is off.


43 posted on 04/05/2014 11:28:54 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: servo1969

Pilot and co pilot were members of the bearded savage cult. That tells us all we need to know.


44 posted on 04/05/2014 11:29:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: servo1969
There we have it...
The Hogwash production line is running at full capacity.
They either don't have a clue or they are lying...
Oh look, a Squirrel!
45 posted on 04/05/2014 11:30:45 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: servo1969

Terrific! Brain of Malaysian Airlines CEO Has Expired, Not Due to Be Replaced Anytime Soon


46 posted on 04/05/2014 11:32:28 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
If I were an international business owner, NO WAY would I put any of my employees on any Malaysian flight. EVER.

IF found to be criminally negligent.
Unfortunately, Malaysia Airlines would certainly not be the only ones.
In addition, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America are scary. Primarily local flights.

Even U.S. Airline flights to some Pacific destinations are uncomfortable, mostly in the weird items those flights allow on some flights.

47 posted on 04/05/2014 11:38:57 AM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: publius911

Your post gave me a visual of the pilot thousand miles out over the ocean tapping on the fuel gauge going “Oh’ crap should have fueled up at that last stop”...


48 posted on 04/05/2014 11:39:41 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: servo1969
We do know that the batterries are due for replacement only in June 2014

Which means that they still have a lot of juice left in them -- for this search anyway.

49 posted on 04/05/2014 11:43:18 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: SoFloFreeper
Has everyone gotten tired of the malaysians yelling SQUIRREL yet?
50 posted on 04/05/2014 11:45:21 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: KarlInOhio

You’re using statistical methods and logic.
Is that allowed on FR these days?


51 posted on 04/05/2014 11:46:49 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Sacajaweau
They all know the currents...so if they get a ping, they could calc the path of the debris.

This assumes facts not in evidence.
Most of us view the pure science of Oceanography, and the charting of currents and their seasonal changes as a pure waste of time. Who cares?

But there is a hundred years of great science ocean records, yet I have not seen a single instance of Ocean current experts providing critical input.

Or it may simply be that the average TV viewer is too stupid, dull and ignorant to be interested. So those viewers keep asking really stupid questions and making embarrassingly ignorant statements.

52 posted on 04/05/2014 11:48:36 AM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: publius911

Nope, not just criminally negligent. Just negligent period - batteries not being replaced is pretty basic so far as aircraft maintenance.


53 posted on 04/05/2014 11:52:49 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Uncle Chip
Which means that they still have a lot of juice left in them -- for this search anyway.

Legally expired does not mean there is no more juice in them. It means they are due for prudent replacement. Saying expired means no more stored power in a battery is like saying that food has no more nutrition when it reaches its "use by" date.

54 posted on 04/05/2014 11:56:45 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I’m updating my theory. Meanwhile on an airstrip in Pakistan/Iran OR Diego Garcia. :-)


55 posted on 04/05/2014 12:01:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: servo1969; All

So the batteries work. More importantly, the Chinese claim to have picked up some pings on the proper frequency.

Look it is not that the batteries were due for standard replacement as part of maintenance. That is not the concern. The concern is that the batteries themselves a usage life that is around 30 days. The two are not identical. One is preventative the other is about drainage when in use


56 posted on 04/05/2014 12:16:04 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: txrefugee
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#10 Travelers who have to fly foreign carriers should have all their affairs in order. They are really risking their lives.-by txrefugee

Some already, apparently do, even on the infamous MH370:

Agony of the wife whose husband gave her his wedding ring and watch before boarding missing flight MH370 'in case something should happen to him'


57 posted on 04/05/2014 12:46:01 PM PDT by wtd
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MH370 search: Government streamlines investigation team, ongoing efforts

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/04/05/MH370-govt-streamline-investigation-ongoing-efforts/

“As per ICAO standards, Malaysia will also appoint an independent ‘investigator-in-charge’ to lead an investigation team and the team will include three groups,” Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussien said in a press conference Sunday.

The three groups will comprise an airworthiness group, which will look into maintenance records, structure and system of the airline; an operational group, which will examine flight recorders operations and meteorological aspects of the investigation, as well as a medical and human factor group, which will look into psychological and pathological aspects as well as survival factors of those on board the plane.

So that’s what they mean by “streamlining” —

It’s about to go from bad to worse — before it’s over the pilot’s role in this may be all but forgotten.


58 posted on 04/05/2014 1:00:15 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: txrefugee

Anybody who flies to a Muslim country is taking a giant risk.


59 posted on 04/05/2014 1:01:04 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Uncle Chip

BTW which of these those three groups will be in charge of investigating the mangosteens and their roll in all of this???


60 posted on 04/05/2014 1:06:31 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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