Posted on 03/13/2014 5:02:50 PM PDT by mandaladon
Two U.S. officials tell ABC News the U.S. believes that the shutdown of two communication systems happened separately on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
One source said this indicates the plane did not come out of the sky because of a catastrophic failure.
The data reporting system, they believe, was shut down at 1:07 a.m. The transponder -- which transmits location and altitude -- shut down at 1:21 a.m.
This indicates it may well have been a deliberate act, ABC News aviation consultant John Nance said.
U.S. investigators told ABC News that the two modes of communication were "systematically shut down." That means the U.S. team "is convinced that there was manual intervention," a source said, which means it was likely not an accident or catastrophic malfunction that took the plane out of the sky.
U.S. officials said earlier that they have an "indication" the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have crashed in the Indian Ocean and is moving the USS Kidd to the area to begin searching.
It's not clear what the indication was, but senior administration officials told ABC News the missing Malaysian flight continued to "ping" a satellite on an hourly basis after it lost contact with radar. The Boeing 777 jetliners are equipped with what is called the Airplane Health Management system in which they ping a satellite every hour. The number of pings would indicate how long the plane stayed aloft.
It's not clear, however, whether the satellite pings also indicate the plane's location.
The new information has greatly expanded the potential search area into the Indian Ocean.
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India, possibly their Air Force. Saw a satellite image on CNN. Possible to land a 777 there, but discounted because of Indian Air Force and nearby houses.
That’s why I think this was a dry run to find out what kind of surveillance is out there, how accurate is it and who has it.
Looks like libs discussing globalization.
I suppose they will also discuss global warming.
Would even fully checked-out pilots be carrying around a bindered handbook to pull breakers in the bay below or could a typical Amish do it, given that everything is so well labeled?
HF
You presume correctly about there always being a binder back up.
Anyone can be trained to locate a pull a certain circuit breaker. All you would need is a training manual, not even the actual cockpit. Ex: “Look behind the co-pilots head, third row down, second from the left, labeled such and such”
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