Posted on 06/22/2019 10:26:29 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
at 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH. The flight number was 370. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the airplane...
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The author never mentioned the lithium ion battery cargo.
Interesting. I viewed it as a plausible alternative theory which explained the many systems failures. With passengers & crew dead from toxic smoke, the plane could have flown on just as described after turning back toward the airport.
A pilotless plane is not unheard of: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/10/26/pilotless-jet-drifts-for-hours/f063918c-77e2-40a0-b59a-1f20b13bb080/?utm_term=.b6e624caa252
But why go through all the flight changes and so on? Why not not ditch the plane once he locks the copilot out?
Great article.
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