The Aussies and Malaysians want to have their cake and eat it too.
It could not have flown a straight path at a fixed speed on autopilot, hitting those hourly Inmarsat ping arcs on schedule, no matter how many "highly"s he wants want to use.
The fix is in -- the autopilot had better get himself a good lawyer.
Pilots don’t hand fly jets anymore except on take off and landing. Once on course it’s all autopilot so the idea that the pilot deliberately put it on autopilot is suspicious reporting. MHO
So, what’s this, the 8th “official” story on what happened to the flight?
Read: "We don't have a clue what happened."
The Inmarsat arcs are here and the new search area about S32E96:
http://www.duncansteel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/V_2D_2.png
and where the red and yellow flight paths intersect here is that place referred to as “somewhere off the western tip of Sumatra” where the autopilot was engaged:
https://www.facebook.com/178566888854999/photos/pcb.740971779281171/740971732614509/?type=1&theater
I knew he looked shady.................
Could it be highly likely that we will never find the plane but that it will find us, some day?
“orderly path” on autopilot through those Inmarsat arcs — who are they kidding???
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You must not believe the satellite data. That data is ambiguous in only two areas. Based on what I have read here is what I believe.
1. The plane could have flown a northern route and magically avoided many radar systems or a southern route where it would not pass any surveillance radars. The satellite system cannot on its own resolve that ambiguity. But it rules out any other routes.
2. Since the satellite system is a time of arrival system there is an error margin on the actual location of the aircraft for each data point. It is probable that taking the speed of the aircraft into consideration would reduce the size of these error margins. Drawing a line north to south through the center points of the error circles/ellipses for each data point will show the most likely northern and southern routes.
What this article says is that, even considering the error margins, the range of possible paths appear to look like the aircraft was on autopilot. That would apply to either a northern or southern route. The lack of radar detection makes the southern route the obvious choice.
King Kong’s home, Skull Island, is 40 miles west of Sumatra. Hmmmm.
“Truss said it was “highly, highly likely “
Truss is a certified moron. Is “highly, highly likely” anything like “super duper sure, almost”?
If he(the pilot) was practicing short field landings and radar evasion on his simulator for months, like was reported yesterday, then why would he kill himself?
If he(the pilot) was practicing short field landings and radar evasion on his simulator for months, like was reported yesterday, then why would he kill himself?
Too late, activating the autopilot then has no effect.