Malaysia Airlines flight MH370-Updates and Discussion

fr336 wrote: »

Loss of air (slow and painful death) would be better than an explosion (instant death)?

I thought you'd be unconscious fairly quickly by loss of air?

But i mean if it was a terror act there could be similar acts in the future which is bad.

It is unlikely that an incident similar to Helios happened. The plane from what we have been told did not have any major pre-flight maintenance. The Helios plane had a maintenance issue it seems where the plane's pressurisation wasn't reset to auto after the maintenance.

This flight went down very quickly.

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

From what I know you just lose consciousness. It isn't an awful death. On that Helios flight a flight attendant lost consciousness but awoke and tried to refly the plane but was unsuccessful as the plane ran out of fuel.

Ah right it wouldn't be so bad if you'd pass out rather quickly.

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

From the Mirror.........

"A Vietnamese search and rescue team said a Singaporean ship has notified them of seeing 'suspicious floating objects; around 100km southwest of the cuontry.

Three vessels are being sent out to the site, the first is expected arrive by 7pm local time.

A team of American aviation accident investigators, led by National Transportation Safety Board experts, is also en route to Asia.


.........."

See report at 6.59pm here: http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing--says-airline-023820132.html

It looks as though that has come to nothing.

I wish the media would stop calling this a failure as seen in this example

"the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane which went missing yesterday said the lack of warnings about a problem aboard the flight suggests a catastrophic failure during flight."

Judging by the fact facts that are available at the moment a Catastrophic event would be more suitable

DieselPowered wrote: »

Just throwing this out there, were the crew involved, either together or individually, they can turn off the transponder, acars, cockpit voice recorder etc.
Did they fly the aircraft some other direction then ditch it?
Who is going to stop them as passengers cant access the cockpit?

As already posted, this does not add up under normal accident/disappearance means.

Can the transponder be turned off?

It must be approaching nightfall now in the area so it could well be another day or so before any sighting of debris again.

The wait must be terrible for the relatives. I hope they find out soon whatever the outcome.

It seems that the plane did make an unscheduled turn from its flight path. If ACARS data was sent from the plane after this with no abnormality you have to wonder why. The authorities haven't told us how far the plane travelled after making this turn and whether this turn was before/after the communication with the second plane.
It appears the plane had gone off the radar when ATC requested a plane ahead of MH370 to make emergency contact, so had the plane (MH370) turned at this stage, given that it was 10 mins after last radar contact when the other plane communicated. This could mean that MH370 had made a turn some 10/15 minutes before last contact on the plane.
You have to wonder why the crew would not have contacted ATC during that period of time.