Posted on 03/23/2014 5:24:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Investigators have made the first visual sighting of objects that could be linked to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Saturday, but officials warned it was "too early" to be sure the sighting was linked to the missing aircraft.
Australian officials said a wooden cargo pallet, along with its belts or straps, was spotted Saturday in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean that has become the focus of an intense international search in recent days.
Wooden pallets are quite common in aircraft and ship cargo holds.
"Part of the description was a wooden pallet and a number of other items which were nondescript around it and some belts of some different colours," AMSA aircraft operations coordinator Mike Barton said.
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If it does not have a serial number on it, independently confirmed by Boeing, the debris is prima facie planted as far as I am concerned.
Lets also have a popcorn machine known to be on the flight as well as golden bobby pins from missing Princess Xianli’s hair.All of it s crap without independent Boeing confirmation, airframe serial numbers.
Pardon my cynicism.
At what point were the pilots incapacitated and what was the cause? I cannot buy the fire explanation because they stayed aloft way too long.
This scenario seems to indicate a third party being the instigator, doesn't it? flat out hijacking. But, there is supposed to be a quick way to add that info to the transponder squawk. Isn't there?
I saw an oblique reference to tomorrow as well, in another thread.
First I had heard of it as well.
And is a factor in all the technology embedded in our silent services, or are you of the opinion the different skunk works brainiacs have no clue to those reaities? Nothing they do is easy and my characterization was meant solely as an analogy. Nothing more, nothing less.
I hate be the one to ruin the debris party for the media but the Boeing 777 does not take or use wooden pallets.
How do I know this you may ask? Mr. GG2 used to be a line chief at the Boeing plant in WA. They have a built in system of metal cargo containers that store all cargo that is loaded on the 777. Wooden pallets won’t fit, are not used and would damage the plane if they tried to use them.
Sooo like I said before “Meanwhile on an airstrip in W Pakistan”.
>>At what point were the pilots incapacitated and what was the cause? <<
I said the flight crew was probably incapacitated, not the pilot(s).
I still think it will come down to the senior pilot losing it and going rogue due to political events in Malaysia the day before he took off.
We need to start thinking outside the envelope!
Great info GG2. That takes the spin out of the MSM idjits who have not done their homework, and that deserves KUDOS TO YOU!
CNN: Crew of Chinese plane searching for MH370 has spotted “suspicious objects” in south Indian Ocean, China’s state-run media reports.
A search plane with no cameras on board? The location reported on another thread put it at about 370 miles to the NE from the Chinese satellite image location. The Aussie P3’s were dispatched to the location and found nothing.
You are correct about the containers for passenger jets. Now for cargo jets that have the flooring, paletized is OK and is common.
A transponder uses a four digit code. Squawking that code is the description of having the transponder turned on, and tuned to the correct 4 digit code. Yes, that takes but seconds to accomplish.
The airplane flying to standard waypoints indicates the flight plan was input to the flight computer. That takes a minute or three. Two guys in the front office of that airplane are trained and skilled in programming the flight computer. They become the prime suspects. The erratic altitude,however, indicates someone less skilled in manipulating the autopilot. OR, someone who wanted to make it LOOK like a hijacking. I'm still looking at the pilot in command, as he had the flight simulator to practice routes, fuel consumption, etc. He's by default the likeliest to have done this.
I think we are talking about passenger jets.
Its a moot point now as the Malaysian govt has declared the aircraft went down in the Indian Ocean and all aboard are dead. They know this because they have seen a few pieces of unidentified flotsam so it must be true. :-) Snicker.
Yea, I am waiting for actual evidence for either possible scenario and my issue from the start was just to point out stuff that a lot of other people had not thought about. To me it is an intellectual challenge since there is so little available and what is does not go to that direction unless new “facts” are made available.
Yes if they pull that plane out of the Indian Ocean I will e the first to say I was wrong I just don’t think thats where it is.
Its not that I don’t think it is there, not enough evidence exists that we know of to be making any kind of assumptions. And that is just what they are, assumptions.
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