Posted on 03/12/2014 10:17:35 PM PDT by kristinn
Hmm, interesting. Plausible.
At least for the moment, we’re back to piracy theories again. I would hate to think the passengers become hostages, and then be packed into the plane again to experience the same fate as the 9/11 passengers. Pray.
Not if they were over the Indian Ocean.
“Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. 777’s engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program. “...
Well shoot, I’m not gonna sign up to the WSJ. Does the article say how they KNOW this information?
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“Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. 777’s engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program.”
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That's fine and dandy, but who in the vicinity would care?
Diego Garcia perhaps? Or maybe the Seychelles, fearing a planeload of tourists had got lost?
Common Core?
Rolls-Royce only got 2 data packets from the “ACARS” system...one during take-off & one during climb out. The “flew on for 4 or 5 hours” claim must be based on something else.
and
http://www.vice.com/read/how-does-a-plane-dissapear-martin-robbins-mh370-malaysia-airlines
Well, it's Malaysia that's been coordinating the search. They obviously don't do this kind of stuff often and they have to work with so many foreign entities. Maybe that's why. Or maybe nobody trusts the other. Otherwise, I don't know the answer.
Well that makes the hijacking theory more plausible..so where is the plane..Iran, India..is it going to pop up one day with a nuke on board and blow up over a major city
No direction or GPS data in that info, just engine data.
If the downloads included the airplane's position, the mystery would be pretty much over. I suspect the data was limited to engine performance metrics.
Distance from Malaysia to Pakistan is: 2780.4 Miles
Approximate flight duration time from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Islamabad, Pakistan is 5 hrs, 46 mins
Please note: this is the approximate flight duration times from Kuala Lumpur. The actual flight times may differ depending on the type and speed of aircraft.
600 mph x 5 hours = 3000 miles
the boy in the white hut and Valerie probably know a whole lot more then they are saying , they were neding a little diversion to take the heat off of their stupid moves.
Here's a couple of links that help clear up some points.
Looks like the plane and passengers could be abducted to a remote airfield anywhere inside a huge compass circle.
There's probably a pile of cryptic money behind what appears to be a very sophisticated operation.
"U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.
Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the BoeingCo. 777's engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program."
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMzExNDMyWj
"ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) is a radioteletype mode developed in the early eighties as an addressable, digital data link for commercial and business aircraft. Aircraft performance info is sent via ACARS uses the AM mode because the same airborne VHF radio is often also used for voice communications. Burst transmissions are used with a limit of 220 characters per message. Transmissions often last less than one second!"
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/decoders/acars.html
Geez - this is like watching an episode of The Twilight Zone
“based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the BoeingCo. 777’s engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program.”
Can they not backtrace these to their point of origin?
Sure implies someone who knew what they were doing, and possibly capable of landing the aircraft safely.
Back to "How far can they go" under those circumstances, and "What airfields were in range capable of handling the plane"? (official/unofficial/military because someone somewhere would have to be in on the heist, and that someone may be a governmental entity or highly placed within one)
I heard Iranians and immediately though, that lizard witch who pulls Obama’s strings.
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