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Forum: Rumours & News
9th Mar 2015, 15:33
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Sect 1.5 of the Factual Information report makes...

Sect 1.5 of the Factual Information report makes it perfectly clear that they have already gathered a great deal of information about the crew, including their medical records.

S8.4 of the...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Mar 2015, 10:12
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Worth noting though that, from the example crash...

Worth noting though that, from the example crash location you linked to, whatever type of plastic it is that they are modelling takes around a year to reach significant portions of the Australian...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2015, 11:31
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

At an early stage in this sad affair, much was...

At an early stage in this sad affair, much was made of a statement by a Malaysian official (the PM possibly?) that the SSR and ACARS systems were deliberately switched off from on-board the aircraft....
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2015, 11:20
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Yes - the page numbering goes from 92 to 94....

Yes - the page numbering goes from 92 to 94. There does seem to be a missing page as the para at the bottom of 92 stops halfway through a sentence.
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Jun 2014, 10:42
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@IanW Thank you for the explanations. ...

@IanW

Thank you for the explanations.

What I've taken away from this very interesting discussion is that possible the ground would know if the system had been tidily shut down because a...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jun 2014, 18:44
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

I presume this statement refers to VHF voice,...

I presume this statement refers to VHF voice, ACARS and the SSR transponder.

I remember hearing a statement by a Malaysian official in an early presser that one or more of these had been...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Apr 2014, 16:51
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

OleOle . . . I know this is going to...

OleOle . . .



I know this is going to sound strange, but anyway:

ICAO Annex 13 requires a Preliminary Report be produced within 30 days after the date of an accident. Annex 13 defines an...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2014, 17:07
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@catch21 I've been surprised at the cynicism...

@catch21
I've been surprised at the cynicism and hostility, too. If they've found something, great.

Even if they were out of area, which is rather speculative at the moment, personally I'd...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Apr 2014, 07:08
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@Shadoko I don't think it's a stupid guess at...

@Shadoko
I don't think it's a stupid guess at all.

A while back in the thread there was an excellent post explaining the nature of the satellite/aircraft handshake (the "ping"). This included a...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Mar 2014, 10:39
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

It's probably worth pointing out again that, at a...

It's probably worth pointing out again that, at a press conference fairly early on, one of the Malaysian officials (their CAA CEO, I think) steadfastly and explicitly refused to confirm that the...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2014, 17:12
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@LLuCCiFeR The Malaysians are not...

@LLuCCiFeR

The Malaysians are not "claiming" anything. They are reporting the inescapable consequence of what they have been told by the UK AAIB and Inmarsat - both of them highly professional...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 22:04
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@Hunter58 Both. All he seemed comfortable...

@Hunter58


Both. All he seemed comfortable with was the initial return direction. Once he was pressed on any subsequent turns, he wasn't at all happy to be drawn. I'm sorry, I forget the exact...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 21:44
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@Hunter58 The piece of the jigsaw that I think...

@Hunter58
The piece of the jigsaw that I think you are missing is that at the press conference a day or so back, the Malaysian official equivocated spectacularly when asked to confirm that MH370 had...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 09:02
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@Toruk Macto Making the story fit the...

@Toruk Macto


Making the story fit the facts is exactly what you're supposed to do! As opposed to:
Making up the facts to fit the story, or
Not caring one jot whether the story and the...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 07:34
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Translation of a dimension originally marked up...

Translation of a dimension originally marked up as 80 feet (by a US analyst, possibly) would do that.

We see lots of that sort of thing in the UK, where the metric and imperial systems are...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 17:28
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@Don't Hang Up Agree entirely - but I was just...

@Don't Hang Up
Agree entirely - but I was just pointing out that there other possibilities than same arc=>stationary=>landed=>hijacked, etc., etc....

And certainly calculations of likely...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 16:47
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@Token Bird You'd have to make an assumption...

@Token Bird You'd have to make an assumption about its speed - strictly its ground speed, since the arcs are defined relative to a point in space fixed relative to the Earth's surface (the IOR...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 16:04
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@dicks-airbus No. No. That's an...

@dicks-airbus


No. No. That's an assumption that has been permeating this thread, but it is only one possible interpretation of what has been said.

The "arcs/corridors" are simply the loci...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 12:35
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Only if someone has a recording or transcript of...

Only if someone has a recording or transcript of the press conference - it was in the questions, not the minister's statement.

And I thought the sense of what the respondee said was the other...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 09:03
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Me too. It does niggle. Presumably the SAR...

Me too. It does niggle.

Presumably the SAR operation would not have been activated until the aircraft was overdue Beijing at 0630, plus some slight margin. I believe that's the norm. Sunrise...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 08:00
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Quite. As far as I understand events, the...

Quite. As far as I understand events, the "criminal" interpretation all stems from a statement (by the Malaysian PM?) that ACARS and transponders were deliberately switched off.

As far as ACARS...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 17:32
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

I believe that approximation is only valid near...

I believe that approximation is only valid near sea level.

I went back to basics and did the trig. I may have made a mistake, so would be happy to be corrected if someone wants to check the...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 12:17
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

Which presumably means that, contrary to...

Which presumably means that, contrary to supposition, no tidy "system logoff" message was received, and that in fact there is nothing to support the hypothesis now rampant that the crew or some other...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Mar 2014, 15:21
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

@ EdmundSpencer Thank you - that is most...

@ EdmundSpencer
Thank you - that is most illuminating!

Out of curiosity - why VHF with Singapore initially? Naively, I would have expected you to be out of VHF range with Singapore as it's...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Mar 2014, 14:56
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,357,479
Posted By DespairingTraveller

I'm not sure they were simply leaving one...

I'm not sure they were simply leaving one frequency for another - I thought they were going out of range of the Malaysian ATC and would not be in range of Vietnamese ATC for some time.

Granted...
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