To: Former Fetus
Hypoxia would not account for the end of transmissions of the ADS-B, ADS-C and ACARS data. To disable these transmitters would require either consciously removing power to them (pulling the circuit breakers) or a catastrophic destruction of the aircraft at altitude. Since there is no floating debris anywhere near the point of last data transmitted then we have to fall back on choice #2: intentional disabling.
This is not the first time a pilot has planned a suicide for insurance and it may have happened here. The pilot has to disable the data transmissions and steer the aircraft to a point on the planet where it will not be found and recovered and the cockpit voice recorder recovered.
But it's all speculation at this point.
5 posted on
03/12/2014 3:47:55 PM PDT by
Procyon
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To: Procyon
The premise of this article was that corrosion could have caused the SATCOM antenna array to disintegrate, followed by slow decompression and hypoxia.
I am not a pilot or an engineer, but when I read the article I remembered how many times I heard a flight attendant explain that in case of "sudden loss of cabin pressure" the oxygen masks would fall in front of us. Fine, but what about a slow loss of cabin pressure?
10 posted on
03/12/2014 3:53:36 PM PDT by
Former Fetus
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