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Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 02:10
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: Sometimes the aircraft stays together and...

Quote: Sometimes the aircraft stays together and floats for days.

Hardly likely if it goes down in the roaring 40s
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 01:52
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Originally Posted by Staggerwing ...

Originally Posted by Staggerwing http://www.pprune.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gif...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 16:38
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Philipat: I would think Indonesia would have...

Philipat: I would think Indonesia would have taken notice of a plane sans ident heading 263 out of Malaysian airspace and over the Malacca Strait, No? The Indonesian Defense Minister said Indonesia...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 13:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: Still a bit surprised the Chinese appear...

Quote: Still a bit surprised the Chinese appear to have got caught out regarding the "debris" they spotted early on.

Believe that was released by a civilian agency -Amateur Chinese sleuthing?
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 12:39
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote [parabellum]: "The FMC is very useful for...

Quote [parabellum]:
"The FMC is very useful for an established route, SID or approach but don't get mesmerised by what may or may not have been entered into the FMC, in this case, quite possible...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 19:21
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: The meaningful question in the absence...

Quote:
The meaningful question in the absence of data is "what are the odds of getting five heads in a row?" or in this case the question I asked about both failing in a short time span.

These...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 19:05
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: Originally Posted by...

Quote:
Originally Posted by mike757007 http://www.pprune.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gif...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 13:02
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote [Old Carthusian]: However, even though...

Quote [Old Carthusian]:
However, even though the rarity of the hijack or pilot deviance explanation is significant this particular line of investigation still fits the known facts better.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 03:53
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote [platinum flyer] Also, Israel has gone on...

Quote [platinum flyer]
Also, Israel has gone on a higher state of alert, something they would not have done without intelligence.
They suspect Iranian involvement.
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 03:48
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: Put it in your flight planner from where...

Quote:
Put it in your flight planner from where it went missing then was sighted (if it was sighted ) in Maldives from where it was last known and you end up DIRECT LINE TO Somalia.

Why did...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 02:58
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

merlin driver: Yes, excellent points...

merlin driver:

Yes, excellent points concerning SAR, thank you, I am aware. However the objective at that point in my little exercise was to determine which was the greater of two possibilities;...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 22:56
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Plane satellite image uncovered

... the image was captured just above a forest and very close to the Shibpur air strip of Andaman Islands.

And the very clear brightly lit by sunlight image it is (also notice the white clouds)...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 20:38
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Cargo

Likely what is being reported as the cargo is based on the manifest. Inasmuch as airplane cargo is crated no one really would have noticed whether or not what was going into the cargo hold was what...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 19:34
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: Then PF locks the cockpit door and does...

Quote:
Then PF locks the cockpit door and does whatever he wants...

Okay, so why enter the course change in the first place before disabling ACARS if ACARS will report the wp change?
Only...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 19:13
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: Then PF locks the cockpit door and does...

Quote:
Then PF locks the cockpit door and does whatever he wants...

Okay, but why enter the wp in the first place before shutting down ACARS which will report a wp change?
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 18:35
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Maldives 'sighting'?

A very low flying "jumbo jet" (a 747 or an A380 is a jumbo jet but we will let that pass) was purportedly spotted over the Maldives 0615 local 8 March -10 days ago, and yet so precise about the time?...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 11:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote (onetrack): If MH370 actually did go into...

Quote (onetrack):
If MH370 actually did go into the Indian Ocean, in the region of the latest search area - then it's highly likely a % of any floating, surviving wreckage will almost certainly,...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 02:11
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

rigbyrigz Quote of yours this AM SLF: " A...

rigbyrigz
Quote of yours this AM
SLF: " A turn west from/after IGARI was entered into the active flight plan in the FMS; this is known as the last ACARS report indicated this waypoint change...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 13:17
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

I think we can really forget the 'Uighur...

I think we can really forget the 'Uighur terrorist' angle -their ops expertise extends no further than hand held knives and crude VBIEDs that generally do not work as intended.
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 12:47
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

The current 'official' operational theory is this...

The current 'official' operational theory is this plane was, for lack of a better word, 'stolen' by person or persons unknown who knew what they were doing (disable transponder, ACARS, etc., took...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 12:17
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Pax

Quote:
something about a Flight Engineer as a PAX on board the aircraft? any one else heard about this?
-early article in WSJ indicated a Malaysian aircraft engineer aboard -did not...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 00:57
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote (galaxy flyer): After this much time, I...

Quote (galaxy flyer):
After this much time, I find it hard to believe it being on the "northern track" or on the ground. The US has ample satellite means of reconnaissance to identify the plane,...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Mar 2014, 21:06
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote (RetiredF4): That leaves the outside job,...

Quote (RetiredF4):
That leaves the outside job, from a group with resources, money and motive.

Could that group be some political motivated group from inside or outside Malaysia to make some...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Mar 2014, 19:40
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote (luoto): Last night Indian newspapers...

Quote (luoto):
Last night Indian newspapers suggested not all radar units were "awake" (I posted a link). The longer this sad, sorry affair goes on the harder it feels to accept any official...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Mar 2014, 23:16
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

"Agreed, I would expect the base(s) in the region...

"Agreed, I would expect the base(s) in the region to be on some escalated level of alert as soon as the plane went missing in "9-11" style transponders off. Like a disturbed wasps nest some...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Mar 2014, 21:39
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Diego Garcia: I think it would be very safe to...

Diego Garcia: I think it would be very safe to assume that if a large unidentifiable plane flew anywhere remotely close to Diego Garcia it would have been noticed.
I also think it would be...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Mar 2014, 16:27
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Quote: [Does anyone else find it odd that when...

Quote:
[Does anyone else find it odd that when the search was expanded to the west, China came up with satellite pictures of debris to the east. And now that we are searching a specific flight...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Mar 2014, 13:02
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Military Radar Q

At the point the transponder ceased to respond the plane was approaching the coast of Vietnam and would be on Vietnamese military primary radar, no? IF the plane did turn west and transited the Malay...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Mar 2014, 17:40
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,210,125
Posted By SLFplatine

Military How it works

Retired F4
Perhaps it was a slow trip up the chain of command to someone authorized to initiate action and at that point the plane was over the Straits of Malacca heading west at flight level 295...
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