Posted on 11/12/2021 3:47:34 PM PST by dynachrome
An engineer claims he’s used a computer program to discover flight MH370 was put into a 20-minute holding pattern before vanishing.
The doomed jet was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014 when it disappeared with 239 passengers on board, sparking one of the greatest aviation mysteries ever.
Richard Godfrey has been tracking the Boeing 777’s flight path using WSPRnet – which uses radio signals – and claims to have made a major breakthrough.
He says the plane was put into a holding pattern for around 22 minutes near the coastline of Sumatra, an Indonesian island, reports AirlineRatings.
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C’mon man, Don Le-mon says a black hole swallowed MH370 and that’s good enough for me.
Well, Don Le-mon IS an expert in black holes, from what I hear.
Very interesting indeed and I hope it leads to a find.
whew.
Nah ... I think the pings from the Inmarsat satellite yielded better data indicating position ...
He was near Sumatra. I hope he managed to avoid the giant rat.
What did they find, one small piece of the plane’s body, do I remember that correctly?
Holmes and Watson are on that case.
More than that which you post read the story and you will find that several pieces have been found scattered at locations around the Indian Ocean
The world is not yet ready for that story.
Wine or violin?
He put on a parachute and jumped?
This case we'll probably never know what happened. A shame and a tragedy.
I believed then, and still do, that the plane was attempting to attack Diego Garcia, which at the time was populated with B-52’s
On the other hand we suffered our worst attack on the homeland at the hands of a very small group of religious loonies.
Mostly I wrote the silly reply just because I pictured Holmes and Watson looking around worried about their 'cases', mostly as fruit for a short story of some kind.
WSPR is NOT what they say it is. It is receiving stations connected to a server somewhere in cyberspace. The receivers collect and report signals, by listening for call signs on specific frequencies. It is actually an amateur radio centric project. The description of “tripwires “ is pure hokum.
This is totally bogus. The ONLY way for WSPRNet to have tracked that plane is if a specially-designed wspr transmitter was on board - and it wasn’t.
HOAX.
22 minutes is a l-o-n-g time to be in holding, and being put into holding at all is very unusual when you’re still thousands of miles from your destination airfield.
Fuel and maintenance on a 757 runs about $18,000 per flight hour so that represents an additional cost to the airline of about $6000. They don’t put airliners in holding just for giggles so there must have been a reason to get such unusual treatment by ATC. And I guarantee you the pilots are going to ask why they have to hold because they have a vested interest in getting to there destination alive, and in support of that goal they habitually monitor everything that could affect the safety of that flight — to include unexpected delays.
So if this guy is such an aviation expert, why didn’t he bother to investigate and discover the reason why ATC instructed them to hold under such unusual circumstances? Because if it happened I guarantee you there’s a record of it. That he didn’t bother to mention it tells me he isn’t that much an expert.
And besides, it’s long since settled that the plane was last known to be a couple of thousand miles off the west end of Australia because its engines kept communicating with a Rolls Royce engine maintenance satellite in geostationary orbit over the northern Indian ocean. And the last time the engines made their regular hourly check-in, the flight already was more than an hour overdue for landing at their destination. So MH370 was running on fumes but was more than two hours flight time from the nearest landfall.
The captain deliberately depressurized that plane at such an altitude that everyone onboard (except him) would have passed out in seconds and died from hypoxia in less than an hour.
Supplemental oxygen is useless at that altitude because all of the masks on the airplane are of the partial rebreather variety, and they provide too low of an oxygen mole content to sustain life at that altitude, even when sedentary. The only exceptions are the masks on the flight deck, which provided pressure breathing, same as jet fighters use, which are unpressurized but allow the pilots to fly to close to 100,000 feet (a la the SR71) and still maintain full mental function.
And he wouldn’t have attempted a ‘soft’ landing because if he’d been successful he’d have been afloat in the middle of nowhere, trapped with no one to talk to except the corpses of the hundreds of people he had just murdered. So the only logical course of action would be to fly into the water at a high airspeed and as steeply as possible, hoping that the fractured pieces of the airplane would penetrate so deeply into the water so that they would never be discovered. And if the bulk of the wreckage were never found, no one would ever be able to prove he did it.
So look in that circle, DUH!!!
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