<>The ACARS quit, then the pilot gave his last broadcast, and then the transponder quit.<>
quit??? without giving notice so they could file for unemployment???
The sequence of events shows that they didn’t quit — they were fired:
01:07 Last ACARS data transmission received
01:19 Last Malaysian ATC voice contact
01:21 Last secondary radar (transponder) contact
01:22 Transponder and ADS-B now off
01:30 Voice contact attempt by another aircraft, at request of Vietnam ATC; mumbling and radio static heard in reply
01:37 Missed expected half-hourly ACARS data transmission
02:11 First of seven automated hourly Classic Aero pings (handshakes) (since last ACARS transmission) via the Inmarsat-3 F1 satellite
02:15 Last primary radar contact by Malaysian military, 200 miles NW of Penang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
Please tell General Daud Rodzali to read Wikipedia to find out what his military are picking up on radar:
02:15 Last primary radar contact by Malaysian military, 200 miles NW of Penang
They’re not picking up anything. It’ll be interesting to see if anything is ever found from this plane, but since it’s not being looked for where it went down, any discovery will be accidental — perhaps plastics, other buoyant materials, washing up on a beach somewhere, and probably a place washed by the South China Sea.