Posted on 03/17/2014 1:37:17 PM PDT by blam
What Pilots Think About The Crazy New Theory That The Missing Malaysia Jet Used Another Jet To Hide
Alex Davies
March 17, 2014
Not surprisingly, the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 people on board more than a week ago has led some people to come up with very interesting theories about what might have happened.
On his Tumblr, self-identified hobby pilot and aviation enthusiast Keith Ledgerwood put forward the most elaborate and interesting suggestion we've heard yet.
He argues the 777 could have flown over India and Pakistan, avoiding military radar detection by turning off its communications systems and following a Singapore Airlines 777 so closely the two aircraft "would have shown up as one single blip on the radar."
In the post, Ledgerwood established that the Singapore Airlines flight was in the area.
The collision avoidance systems installed on all modern airliners operate using the transponder, which someone on the Malaysia flight could have turned off. So the Singapore crew wouldn't have detected a plane on their tail, Ledgerwood speculates.
"Once MH370 had cleared the volatile airspaces and was safe from being detected by military radar sites in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan," Ledgerwood writes, "it would have been free to break off from the shadow of SIA68 and could have then flown a path to it’s final landing site."
We asked Michael G. Fortune, a retired pilot who now works as an aviation consultant and expert witness, if that would be possible. After a lengthy pause, he gave us a skeptical "maybe." It would depend on what kind of radar equipment the Singapore 777 had on board, he said, and would require some serious aviation skill to find and stay behind the plane.
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Wouldn't it be easier for China to grab them when they landed in Beijing? Make up something about them being spies, and sequester them in a room somewhere for a few weeks, til they had what they wanted?
Doesn't Iran have the money to buy all the large commercial aircraft it could use, for that or any purpose? North Korea could even rustle up enough to buy a used jet. Peasants don't need to eat.
Easiest way:
Get them drunk at the bar, send them off with some hot gal and download everything in their laptop while the sucker is spilling his brains about how smart he is to the gal.
This scenario was portrayed in Neal Stephenson’s “Reamde” about 3 years ago.
Does the US not still operate the SOSUS systems? I would think that in that general area, we would have arrays operating that could pickup something as violent as a large aircraft impact. We would at least know if it hit the water or not. Am I making too many assumptions here? We’ve used them to pick up less dramatic events in the past...
It didn’t stay at 45,000. The data say it went down rapidly to much lower levels, where cell phones were usable. Jamming? Possible. But I think this gives too much credit to the brain power of one guy-—which is about the only scenario that even remotely seems to fit outside of random accident, which I don’t fully rule out.
Wasn’t at that altitude long. Remember? It came way down.
A maneuver to SIMULATE mid air refueling, not the act of it.
If this was a planned event, it wouldn’t be difficult for the planners to get that little toy, online, that disrupts cel phone reception. I also understand that some businesses employ this to block cell phone usage in certain areas.
But the same sort of precision flying would be needed, no?
Close enough to merge into one radar blip, but not close enough to collide.
That shouldn't work if the radar senses elevation. The Malaysian military radar supposedly had them flying above the 777's service ceiling.
Why not just google it?
Yes. I missed the point. Yes it would. Does the Pilot or Copilot have military training?
Rummy or Maggie
Have you read if the First Lady is still set travel to China. I am curious because if they cancel that trip it will indicate if they believe that plane is on the ground somewhere.
It is my opinion that ‘skunk works’ type operations knows exactly what is happening. If it landed, they’re looking at it right now. If it sank in the ocean, they know where.
That was JFK,not LaGuardia.
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Sort of like the Bandit driving the Trans-Am up into a truck trailer to elude Sheriff Justice.
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