No inflight Internet Access for Pax?
If there had been, you might conclude that a well thought out cockpit-driven "total disappearance event" may have given a disabling of that non-essential bus feeding the rear areas a high priority. They'd not want the pax emailing their concerns to anybody (such as a locked cockpit door). But if MAS were too cheap to maintain a satellite ACARS contract, they'd likely also not offer their pax inflight internet access. Organic IFE is much cheaper.
Why would a "total disappearance" be a priority to someone? You have to conclude that the eventual lessons of Silkair and Egyptair's MS990 was that any relocatable wreckage would always give up the facts of the accident. A solution to that would be to place the aircraft beyond the search parameters and in water too deep for recovery of DFDR/CVR. That's the Indian Ocean, not the South China Sea/Gulf of Thailand.
But the additional puzzle might be that there should be no in-cockpit or avionics bay methodology for disabling an Emergency Locator Transmitter (E.L.T.) or stop it transmitting to a SAR satellite on 406MHZ. This jigsaw is missing a few pieces.
Last edited by TheShadow; 14th Mar 2014 at 01:10.
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