MH370 opinion ATSB

[Rwy in Sight]

To take that just a bit deeper (pun intended) had the perpetrator turn westward he would have been over some of the deepest sea on the world. And I still think that without a statement suicide does not seem like a possibility.

[Dee Vee]

Originally Posted by portmanteau

I note , today, that Peter Foley MH370 Search Programme Director in an Estimates Hearing in the Australian Parliament on 22nd May said " There's no earthly reason why someone in control of an aircraft would exhaust its fuel and then attempt to glide it when they have the option of ditching."

Still just defending his own decisions to search in the (proven to be) wrong area, and refuses to admit it might be somewhere he didn't have searched.

Clearly this person should never been in charge of the failed search.

[Airbubba]

Originally Posted by Xeptu

"deliberately disabling the transponder"
A case of unintentional but deliberately disabled. How many of us in the heat of the moment would forget you dont need to select standby when changing codes.

Selecting standby sounds more like a Cessna 150 technique than a modern Boeing procedure to me.

Does anybody still teach this? Is it in a manual anywhere? Do they still do it in Asia?

Or, is it a Brit thing like practice PAN's?

[A0283]

MH370 private search has ended without result

The Malaysian government announced that at an unspecified later date a final report will be published.
I sincerely hope that this will be accompanied by opening an NTSB like docket that contains useful raw and processed data.