Posted on 03/09/2014 11:11:54 AM PDT by mojito
SEPANG: A BOEING 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, said he established contact with MH370 minutes after he was asked to do so by Vietnamese air traffic control.
The captain, who asked to not be named, said his plane, which was bound for Narita, Japan, was far into Vietnamese airspace when he was asked to relay, using his plane's emergency frequency, to MH370 for the latter to establish its position, as the authorities could not contact the aircraft.
"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told the New Sunday Times.
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Thank you.
One map shown often on TV news shows a track entirely over land, about 400 miles west!
So here we are...
Yes.
"Would someone hand me my 5 iron?"
I was there (Kuala Lumpur) in 1974 when I worked for Texas Instruments for about a month. I was apolitical back then. It was a very nice place and had a lot of Chinese who spoke English. I don’t remember it being Moslem but do remember there was a lot of Buddhist and Hindu influence.
It would be shot down. IF your scenario happened, the plane doesn't become 'invisible'. It will show up on radar. But there could be another hijacking, the first hijacked plane then steals that clearance from the second hijacked plane so ATC wouldn't know and wouldn't respond then....then...
You heard it here first.
What if Al qaida wanted to steal a commercial aircraft?
How would you go about it?
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I’d call one of my sheik friends in the Saud kingdom and just take one of their personal 767’s or 747’s ... they can report it stolen when they notice next month...
Are there any abandoned WWII landing strips on a remote island in that part of the world?
Beijing and Kuala Lumpur are the same time, which coincides with local time. Hanoi an hour earlier, +8 and +7 Zulu respectively.
This is a lead that should be pursued; however, if the plane in front was truly 30 minutes ahead, that would separate the aircraft by approx 250 miles. Establishing VHF comm would be difficult but maybe they were on HF. I’d also like to know how the crew was sure they had the right aircraft and not another...
You worked for Texas Instruments for about a month??
Twenty Employees of Texas Semiconductor Company On Flight 370
Hmmm...sounds kinda familiar.
Sounds like that’s exactly what happened. Its happened before. Slow oxygen depletion brings on confusion and bizarre behaviors.
That would make the final destination either Tokyo or Los Angeles.
I worked for them for about 15 months, one of them in Kuala Lumpur. About 3 weeks in Brazil and about 6 weeks in Italy. I normally worked in the Dallas location. I was hired by a “head hunter” who visited the college I was attending. Got laid off when the bottom fell out of calculator sales, though I had nothing to do with that department. TI tended to go by seniority even though they are non-union.
This story has been reported as false.
Had the plane disintegrated over the water there would be little pieces of it floating over a wide area and it sure seems like those pieces would have been discovered by now. Seat cushions, insulation, bodies, etc.
And even if the transponder stopped, the plane can still be seen and tracked by radar. You would think they'd have a good idea of where it started descending and dropped out of radar view.
It is as if the plane went into the water in its entirety or it hit land instead. Perhaps they tried a water landing, but you would think there'd still be some evidence of it.
That part of the world does have huge thick jungles. If they dumped their fuel prior to crashing that would help hide the crash.
The waters are full of crap that has been discarded, just stopping to check each piece could take awhile. Once flotsam gets waterlogged, it goes beneath the surface a ways, hard to spot from a ship. If it did crash into the ocean, it will be an aircraft search that finds it. Especially in the case of a cataclysmic event at altitude.
Egypt Air 990. Halloween night, 1999.
No. I think he said, “Hand me a three wood.”
Thank you. Didn’t consider that the waters could be massively polluted with trash already... But considering where it is we’re talking about it would make sense that it is.
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