So what would happen if the pilot locked the copilot out of the cockpit? Copilot comes back and can’t open the door. He gets the rest of the crew involved. They pound on the door, and try to talk to the pilot over the intercom. Sooner or later the passengers in first class are going to know something is haywire. Why is the copilot the only one who tries to use a phone? Wouldn’t everyone at that point? Also, a copilot would know that trying to force the cockpit door would trigger the AH system. Especially one just certified for the 777. He would be kicking that door like his life depended on it. And, if by chance he didn’t know about the AH, the head stew would definitely know. But apparently the door wasn’t forced because the AH system didn’t engage.
I just don’t buy the crazed pilot theory.
That's a legitimate question. Did any device on board MH370 attempt communication (or merely check for messages or simply announce its existence) after the airplane went missing?
Answering that question would not be a trivial task, however. You'd need to compile a list of all the cell phones known to be in possession of passengers and crew. And you'd need to screen all those phones against the logs of all cell towers which those phones could conceivably have attempted to contact.
Do you suppose that work been done?
It's just scripts and database searches. No need to be aloft over the South Indian Ocean watching your fuel supply!
I don't buy the crazed pilot theory either. Whoever did this thought it out carefully from beginning to end.
Going up to 45000ft for 23 minutes was not just taking care of the passengers and crew, it was taking care of the 200 cellphones onboard as well.
This connection with the tower on Penang took place after the 23 minute excursion at 45000ft and an hour after taking over the plane.
Is this connection between the co-pilot's phone and the cell tower an indication that the co-pilot survived the excursion to 45000ft and was trying to make a call at that point or was it just some automatic connection as it came into range and thus meaning nothing??
What about any of the other 200 cell phones range -- were any of them connecting with the tower as well???
Over the Island of Penang is where course adjustments to waypoint IGREX had to be made and thus the pilot would have been busy with the plane making course corrections and having no time to make any cellphone calls himself -- unless this was all part of the plan somehow and the reason to drop to 5000ft over the island in the first place.
Note that the investigators release just enough information about this co-pilot’s cellphone so that they can point an accusing finger at him and take the heat off Captain Shah.
And yet in this previous article from March 24 investigators throw cold water on the most important cell phone call of all — made by Captain Shah from the cockpit before the flight:
Malaysian police have denied two British media reports that they are investigating a mobile phone call from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines MH370 before take-off.
Police Inspector-General Kahlid Abu Bakar on Monday dismissed reports in Britain’s Mail on Sunday that police were investigating a call senior pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah made on his mobile phone shortly before the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur.
The story was the second in a week to make claims about a pre-flight phone call, following a similar one in fellow UK newspaper The Sun.
Police initially declined to comment on the existence of the two-minute call made from the cockpit of the Boeing 777 aircraft.
But Inspector-General Kahlid said that if the newspaper could provide the telephone number “that would be helpful”.
“If not ... it is mere speculation,” he said.
Everyone else who spoke to the pilot on his phone in the hours before the flight took off has already been interviewed.