Hey Mr. Sheep, do you know if ACARS sends a 'shutting down' message home when shut down in the normal way, or does it just go silent from that point on ?

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CommanderCYYZ
 

To be fair, my interactions with the Malaysian police during my time in the RHKP were good. They were efficient and competent. Admittedly, that's going back a couple of decades now, but I see no reason why that would have changed much.

This one also showing live video from the conference now....note conference itself has NOT started.
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mabuhay_2000
 

Any interactions I have had with police, or any officials in MAL have, without exception, involved the passage of money. Nothing else seems to work.

Just getting her a police record report to immigrate to Canada took 18 months, a trip to the Malaysian High Commission, a trip to KL and an amount of cash.

Then again, she's Chinese Malaysian.

err what?

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Wa wa,

Don't know that one sorry. Last ACARS to MAS was 0107am. This Satelite pinging is still to be clarified as to what type of info was coming back. If it was just benign keep a lives, then it maybe useless data.

For those that dont understand bahasa malay the pm is delayed ....its normal malay time GMT whatever ;)

Fact
 

The extent of available JORN coverage and actual system performance is highly variable and principally dependent on the state of the ionosphere, environmental conditions and an object's size and construction.


AT 200am there is no path to that region on 24MHZ which the JORN uses check your ips charts
The RAAF guys live in the Alice and go to work at 800am

Do you see how ridiculous your comments are?

The pax are ALWAYS at the mercy of the highly trained pilots. Being able to track the aircraft cannot stop that just like speed cameras do not stop speeding and CCTV does not stop crime, it is merely a tool for investigation and prosecution.

Really is this the standard of critical thinking you posess?

to me the clearest indicator would be the time the transponder failed/disabled after TOC, if it was within minutes I'd strongly suspect a human aspect to this. Can anyone clarify the timing?

It was a heist.

6tonnes of gold on board.

Unfortunately not so. Some hijackers have no interest in making a successful landing, Ethiopian B767, for example or, more obviously 9/11.
Others have shown no realistic appraisal of an aircraft's range capability, ordering crews of short haul B737 over Europe to fly direct to the Middle East and been unable to comprehend that a landing for refuelling would be necessary.

Two things
 

Just wondering two things:

1. Would shutting down one engine extend the range? If so, by how much?
2. Also thought it was a pretty strange that on day one the US sent only one ship to the area. Maybe they knew that there was nothing to find.

What would be the length of runway, absolute minimum, if you had no intention to ever take off again, would you need for a 777?

Source please

Malaysian PM - Comms disabled, transponder switch off.

Malaysian PM - Plane was Hijacked

EDITED actual wording

Flight 370's movements are consistent with 'deliberate' action 'by someone on the plane' - Malaysian Prime Minister

Malaysia Prime Minister says he was brief this morning

MH370 confirmed as the plane seen by Primary Radar

8:11am Malaysian Local Time last sat communication

I don't see why there's so little concerning the pilot(s) having done this. After all they're trained and have access to the FD. Even if a would be hijacker was trained, then they'd still need access to the flight deck. Is there evidence we're not hearing about which the investigators are more convinced it was a passenger who did this and not the crew?