Posted on 03/09/2014 6:08:50 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications.
The revelations add to the uncertainties surrounding the final minutes of flight MH370, which was carrying 239 people when it lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving Kuala Lumpur early Saturday morning for Beijing.
Air force chief Rodzali Daud didn't say which direction the plane veered when it apparently went off course, or how long it flew in that direction.
"We are trying to make sense of this," he told a media conference. "The military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back and in some parts, this was corroborated by civilian radar."
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Anything is possible but the transporter (IFF) normally would stop working at the instance of detonation. This aircraft previously sustained damage to a wing in a ground mishap. I wonder if a portion of the wing buckled. It’s possible to cause a extremely rapid roll that also could have altered the flight path.
I’m thinking it may have been accidentally shot down by the Chinese........
Could very well be that all along, if it was I would expect forums would be saturated with Chinese based posters trying to offer alternative theories, anything other than what would make them look bad.
“There is no debris. Think 9/11 when the plane was driven straight into the field. No debris there either.”
There was PLENTY of debris on the ground around the WTC towers before the buildings collapsed. Plenty of pics of engine parts lying on the ground.
Forgive the pun, lost comm is COMMon. In IFR conditions you squawk 7600 so the air traffic guys know, fly your last assigned clearance altitude and show up on time for your filed approach.
Sure there was, just a smaller field of debris.
Please reread my post. Notice the word ‘field’.
Investigators found some very light debris including paper and nylon scattered up to eight miles (13 km) from the impact point in New Baltimore, Pennsylvania.
Other tiny aircraft fragments were found 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away at Indian Lake, Pennsylvania.[81] All human remains were found within a 70-acre (28 ha) area surrounding the impact point.
Somerset County Coroner Wally Miller was involved in the investigation and identification of the remains. In examining the wreckage, the only human body part he could see was part of a backbone.
Miller later found and identified 1,500 pieces of human remains totaling about 600 pounds (272 kg), or eight percent of the total."
Source: Wikipedia
Circuit breakers.
Faulty wiring in the fuel tanks?
Other than the 787 grounding of a few years ago I can't remember a single time the FAA ordered a airplane grounded following a crash due to unknown cause.
But they said they had a KNOWN cause - faulty wiring in the center fuel tank.
Then they send out inspection and modification orders. They have never ordered a mass grounding, other than the 787, so there is no reason why they should have for the 747 post TWA 800.
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