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I wonder if they can continue working into the night? |
Someone earlier, (Very ex BA?), mentioned a darkened cabin and crew in their bunks. It is only a six hour flight, highly unlikely the cabin crew would have anytime for bunk rest, especially in the premium cabin(s) where hijackers tend to sit.
So much information has been given out to the general public about transponders, the various emergency codes etc. that any hijacker these days will, on gaining access to the flight deck, almost certainly switch it off. MAS seem an unlikely target for a hijacking. |
For a passport to be stolen and picked up by Customs, it has to be REPORTED AS STOLEN first. The Italian one was, but maybe the others weren't reported stolen. |
Originally Posted by ruprecht
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"I suspect they could, considering they will be hunting for the "pinger" signal which is not daylight dependant...
I also guess they would need 2 flight crews (at least) per aircraft, 1 to transport over there & 1 to start the search. Is this how this sort of mission would work?" |
Livesinafield. Depends on who you are listening to. According to CNN the report of debris is false. And this has been going on all day. It would appear nobody has a clue at this stage.
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From the South China Morning Post;
Agree - you won't see debris from 11,000m, but you may see city lights. Don't think the plane crashed at all. Think it was hijacked by Xinjiang separatists. New flight plan to Hotan airport. Strange that K.L. -> Hotan is exactly the same distance +/- 50km as K.L. -> Beijing. Hijackers' jettisoned fuel to make it look like a crash to direct rescuers to the wrong place. Classic case of misdirection. They could have easily turned off the transponders, and it being night time, no tracking equipment (from say satellites) would have 'eye's' on the plane. China's 1st failed hijacking took place at Hotan airport back in 2012. Plenty of opportunity how to resolve what went wrong from hijackers point of view. In that case the passengers successfully overpowered the hijackers. In this case that might have gone wrong. Anonymous Pilot mentioned background distress at 1.30am when the Vietnamese ATC asked him to contact the pilots on local frequencies. Now 4 suspects have been identified (the right number of hijackers required to take over a plane of that size). (thoughts). |
Folks are getting out ahead of their skis with the terrorism talk.
Right now we have a missing aircraft and [edited still no debris sightings] Being familiar with that part of the world there are a myriad of reasons you might want to fly to China on a fake passport. I have not seen it been established that 5 is a particularly odd number; after all the folks who are the authorities on this subject apparently don't do a very good job. If I can engage in some broader speculation myself this route does not make a lot of sense to me as a prime terrorist target. If I were a Chinese Muslim extremist isn't a domestic flight easier? And then I remind myself the only indication it might be terrorism is that there are 5 fake passports and again I fail to see the damning evidence in that. For what it's worth a U.S. customs agent recently told me smugglers tend to travel in packs. edited: 2 passports not 5. big deal |
Can we please leave this crazy hijack and landed at a remote strip alone now? I personally don't mind reading everyone's opinion although some are a bit out there (why anyone would want to illegally emigrate to China is beyond me, must be coming from a real $hit hole). This will take some time to piece together before we know what happened with this flight. |
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When are they going to install a camera in the cockpit and some in the cabin that will transmit live video to a central station so that we shall be able to know exactly what happened during a crash before recovering the voice and data recorders?
This should be easy to do these days? |
I don't seem to recall the pilot who called mh370 on a separate frq hearing distress I the background??? MAS88 B777 was about 120NM north of SGN (KUL-TYO). The guy claims he was on MAS88. |
As much as it is current to blame terrorism on everything, I don't believe this is the explanation here for one reason: where is the claim of responsibility? Not much point in committing an act of terror (after all, you do so fro a political aim) if nobody knows you did it. |
When are they going to install a camera in the cockpit and some in the cabin that will transmit live video to a central station so that we shall be able to know exactly what happened during a crash before recovering the voice and data recorders? This should be easy to do these days? |
@parabellum - 'MAS seem an unlikely target for a hijacking' - curious comment. Surely every airline, wherever they are, is a target. Given the international nature of airlines and the even more international makeup of the passengers these days,a hijack has all the newsworthy ingredients that the press yearn for.
Simply because an airline comes from a lesser country than some makes it no less secure. I'm not having a pop I'm genuinely curious. |
Can a radar trace depict an aircraft breaking up?
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That's terrorism for you. Terrorise us/the world for a few days, not knowing WTF happened, and then claim responsiblity. If they'd claimed immediately, the news would probably be back about Ukraine by now. |
When are they going to install a camera in the cockpit and some in the cabin that will transmit live video to a central station so that we shall be able to know exactly what happened during a crash before recovering the voice and data recorders? This should be easy to do these days? It Isn't as simple as just installing it, the tech is there privacy is an issue personally i wouldn't want a camera linked to a live feed to my ops watching my every move in the cockpit every time i was at work, also cabin cameras look at the privacy breach for 200+ passengers and one more thing CVR's get leaked, i personally don't want to be on liveleak with 2 million people watching me die in a plane crash thank you Can a radar trace depict an aircraft breaking up? |
Successive primary returns can do. That plus trajectory reconstruction. A surveillance radar (military) could in principle have tracked on primary. Did one? Who knows.
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A day or so ago, someone posted that the sea beneath the flight path was some 50 metres in depth. That reminded me of something my late father told me when he was stationed at RAF KL in 1950's.
Once a week he would fly a STOL a/c from KL to the Shell oil company site in Borneo. He said the sea was so clear he could see shoals of sharks swimming beneath him. It is surprising that if there are large sections of the aircraft in the area being searched, none have been found. |
Can a radar trace depict an aircraft breaking up? BBC (UK) reporting that: BBC has confirmed that a man falsely using an Italian passport and a man falsely using an Austrian passport purchased tickets at the same time, and were both booked on the same onward flight from Beijing to Europe on Saturday ...and so the speculation goes on and on..... |
As an Airline Pilot regularly flying in and around that area it worries me that they can't seem to piece together what happened from Radar traces, ADS, CPDLC, etc or find the damn 777. It's not a Cessna 150 they are looking for.
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