Quote from sysconx....
'I believe this to be a tragic event with all on board incapacitated. The Aircraft flew
on autopilot and landed on the surface of water with controlled descent and a flare without falling apart sinking to the bottom whole. The crew possibly tried to come to senses and mistakenly switched off the transponder, changed the digit from N to S on the Nav. With hypoxia setting in they though they were going to sleep and responded to the controller with "good night" sign off. All the passengers never once tried anything during the whole flight. Unaware or unconscious they never put up a fight to defend themselves. '
Once again it's amateur hour and all the FS types emerge.
Do you have the slightest notion of what you are talking about?
Are you saying that a B 777 reduced to emergency/RAT/ battery power took it upon itself to do a flapless, gear up autoland ditching in the Southern Ocean?
Do you think pilots in the middle of an emergency start user defining waypoints by latitude and longitude?
The amount of known facts in the public domain on this issue is tiny. The media has misreported the facts and added huge amounts of unfounded speculation. As for the Malayasian authorities, they appear to be the modern day aviation equivalents of the Keystone Cops. Please do not make it worse by putting up more stupid ideas entirely founded on stupidity. It is perfectly clear who knows what they are talking about (there have been some excellent contributions from some) and equally clear when someone knows absolutely nothing.
Rant almost over but one more thing, if that 'Razor...' character (the name should be a chilling warning on these matters) asks one more question about cockpit door procedures I'll be asking the mods to bar him from the site. This is NOT the place to discuss these matters for very obvious reasons.
