Real final words - Allah Akbar!
Now we’re gettin’ somewhere.
Weren’t most of the passengers Chinese citizens?
Don’t seem to be hearing much from the Chinese govt?
Surprised at this.
They chose to go dark right at the hand-off point between Malaysian ATC and Vietnamese, maximizing the time before they would be missed. Then they turned west to minimize tracking by military radar. Then probably northwest towards a destination somewhere in the 'stans.
There remains the problem of Indian and other military radar along the way. How do they react to non-transponding blips? Perhaps, Captain Zaharie tail-gated a legitimate flight for a ways. ATC would see the legitimate flight's squawk. Military radar would see the legitimate squawk along with a slightly brighter blip?
According to later reports the last words recorded were as follows: “Famous last words!”
No doubt it was one of the pilots. But which one? Was it the 53 year old father of three, aviation enthusiast and political opponent of the current Malaysian leadership? Or was it the 26 year old well connected pampered co pilot who fancies himself a stud and who’s father is well connected politically?Hunch: The 26 year old came on to one of those hot flight attendants and she told him in no uncertain terms to get lost. He was probably angry and humiliated. Young men in that condition do silly and impulsive things. He probably went jihadist and thought if he killed his mostly infidel Chinese passengers, he would be a martyr and get his 72 virgins. Investigators should interview Malaysian flight attendants to learn the real deal about these pilots. Actually probably will never know what really happened but the Malaysian government no doubt will blame the older pilot.
There was an FR post earlier today (which has since been pulled) in which an apparent FR aviation expert informed us that the ACARS sends data ONLY on significant events (gear-up, gear-down, achieving cruise) and NEVER on time. So the reports that it sent out data every half hour are wrong - it would not be expected to send out more data until gear-down (which didn’t happen).
I was thinking it was “Thank you, come again”
Ping to this link!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133902/posts?page=1#1
Innovative, thanks for the post!
Why not transmit relevant operational data, along with cockpit voice recordings to the satellite, every 60 seconds or something, and do away with the boxes?
The airline companies can record the whole thing and toss them out after a safe landing, or keep them for a week or something.
It's bound to be less traffic than the legions of twits.
I know nothing about aviation, so bear with me: Is there any legitimate reason why a pilot would turn off the transponder while a plane is in flight?
According to my Chinese wife, who regularly peruses Chinese Web-Sites, the consensus among MOST Chinese, is that the plane was attempting to get to Somalia - a Muslim country, known for Piracy...
FWIW
They can easily determine which pilot said those words..if a hijacking had taken place by someone ON the plane who had nothing to do with the cockpit they would have said something in code to tell control that a hijacking was taking place. I am still standing by my theory that this plane has landed somewhere, maybe it refueled, or is just sitting there, waiting for things to die down then they will fly it again
A term used despite the American understanding of what it means here. It isn't the same thing, there isn't positive control in most areas covered by ICAO. The transponder was secured because the flight was going to turn west into an area that had radar coverage.
Just remember, it’s not TERRORISM unless a properly registered terrorist organization issues an official statement acknowledging the act as their own.
http://www.prokerala.com/travel/flight-time/from-iran-shahr/to-kuala-lumpur/
Flight time from Iran Shahr to Kuala Lumpur is 7 hours 41 minutes
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Flight Time From Kuala Lumpur To Mohenjodaro Pakistan is is 6 hours 44 minutes
I am so sad about this and the people on the plane..
There was an Israeli news item (I think) I read that said they were sure the plane had reached Iran.
It is just very sad...I don't have much hope for those people being alive now.
There is a thread up now with what I had posted about..Israel thinking the jet is in Iran. And they’re beefing up their airspace precautions.
Now it gets scarier as I think he was a muslim and not so rated by others as a good guy who would not harm people...