Posted on 03/26/2014 6:56:23 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'It was his last joyride': MH370 pilot was upset over wife moving out and in 'no state of mind to be flying', reveals his long-time friend
MH370 pilot devastated by his marriage breakdown
He warns Zaharie could have taken MH370 on a 'last joyride' and that the crew wouldn't have known something was wrong 'until it was too late’
It follows reports the doomed flight climbed to 43,000ft moments before disappearing from radar
It stayed at that altitude for 23 minutes, but oxygen would have run out after just 12 minutes, rendering passengers and crew unconscious
Expert says plane would have flown on until it ran out of fuel
While families of victims of MH370 are expected to start arriving in Perth as soon as the debris is confirmed as belonging to the plane
The Australian Prime Minister warned the search can't go on indefinitely
The pilot of doomed flight MH370 was distraught over his wife’s decision to move out of their family home and could have taken the plane for a ‘last joyride’ before it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean killing all 239 people on board, says a long-time friend of the pilot.
The friend, also a pilot, said Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had been left rattled by his family problems, and didn’t appear to be in the right state of mind to be flying. He warned that it was ‘very possible that neither the passengers nor the other crew on-board knew what was happening until it was too late’.
‘He's one of the finest pilots around and I'm no medical expert, but with all that was happening in his life Zaharie was probably in no state of mind to be flying,’ he told the NZ Herald on the condition of anonymity.
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Who knew a satellite could reach “orbit” at 200 miles??
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites orbit the earth in the range of 180 - 1200 miles. ISS is orbiting at around 250 miles, IIRC.
Being skeptical is good when governments, any governments are involved.
That is what I think too...
They're probably using a factor of safety of 1.1 on the pressure shell. That would be typical for the aerospace industry with load conditions well established. But your point is well taken that if the aircraft could maintain lift, the pressure shell will likely hold.
Its a big world. If you got no idea where it is, or which hanger its in... its not that hard to hide it.
Agreed..... if our satellite imagery is so good we should have some wonderful pictures of the debris allegedly floating in the indian ocean.
I’ve spent 9 hours in a 767 at over 50k ft several times.
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The BS doth flow!
This is a real dog and pony show.
Up hill.
Back in the old days when I used to do a lot of plan checking, I had a little joke form that I would send to engineers and architects that made grade mistakes.
It was titled “Request for Up-hill Water Flow Permit.”
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It would be terrible to think that at 1 AM some pilot could just turn off the transponder and whatever else.... and then just fly the plane to any terrorist haven that he chose to.... and no one would have a clue where it went. You know?
One would think…..
Deep pockets,baby...deep pockets.
They’re probably using a factor of safety of 1.1 on the pressure shell. That would be typical for the aerospace industry with load conditions well established. But your point is well taken that if the aircraft could maintain lift, the pressure shell will likely hold.
Thanks — those are very informative.
Unfortunately it is true that the pilot can turn off everything that isn’t directly powered by the engine.
Everything that has a circuit breaker can be unpluged right behind the pilot’s head. It’s a fire control issue.
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Those lawyers will fail at that endeavor.
The ability to de-power all systems is a federally required safety feature.
Or if they mean having human pilots is a design flaw, rotsa ruck!
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They can vent the plane. The O2 that drops down is not pressurized. At 45000 ft you could not breath enough air in to live long. After 12 minutes you are dead.
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