777 pilots are chiming stating you cant have a undetected fire in the wheel for over an hour.
The Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished nearly two weeks ago was already 12 minutes into its diverted course when the plane's co-pilot calmly told air traffic controllers that things were "all right," former FAA spokesman Scott Brenner said Tuesday on "The Kelly File."
"One of the pilots clearly had the intention ... that he was going to take (the plane) in a different direction," Brenner told host Megyn Kelly. "It's 100 percent clear this pilot, or this co-pilot, was going to take this plane with the intent of doing something bad."
At 1:19 p.m. on March 8, 12 minutes after the plane had changed course to the west, co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid gave a routine "All right, good night" in his final radio call.
Brenner also believes it's likely that Hamid and pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah were both involved in the decision to change the flight's course.
"For a pilot or a co-pilot to punch in a new waypoint in their flight management system without the other one noticing would be hard to do," he said.
a law enforcement official told CNN that the plane's programmed change in direction was entered at least 12 minutes before the plane's verbal sign-off.
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A U.S. official told CNN that somebody programmed Flight 370 to fly off course. But it's unclear if that happened during the flight or before takeoff.
"We don't know when specifically it was entered," said Mary Schiavo, a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Reports, not yet confirmed by authorities, have suggested that Flight 370 followed navigational waypoints after it turned off its original route less than an hour into its journey on March 8.
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Programming waypoints into the flight management system of a Boeing 777-200 is "a task that would have been beyond the abilities of anyone but a professional pilot," said Robert Goyer, the editor in chief of Flying magazine and a commercial jet-rated pilot.
Once the pilots are in the aircraft, "anything is possible," said Ahmad Jauhari.
Why would it be an hour? The pilot said goodnight at 1:19am and then the transponder turned off a minute later at 1:20pm. 17 minutes after that, at 1:37am, the ACARS failed to check-in. Bad timing + happened pretty quick?
Fox is reporting that the plane had already begun to turn before the goodnight call:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...ckpit-checked-in-12-minutes-after-course-was/
They said to make that change, it would be hard to do without the other pilot noticing:
Edit: The other Fox article says "former" FAA spokesman, what the heck?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...laysian-jet-focuses-on-southern-indian-ocean/
You are way too wrapped up in this.
You are way too wrapped up in this.
I don't trust foxnews at all. They, along with CNN, want us to believe that the sky is falling. Top stories on Foxnews are that al qaeda is going to bomb us, America is in danger, and that the missing flight is teaching terrorists a thing or two.
One thing I read was that an airliner can glide about 30 miles if it the engines were to crap out at 30,000 feet. That'd be a pretty significant range to search in...
Fox is reporting that the plane had already begun to turn before the goodnight call:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...ckpit-checked-in-12-minutes-after-course-was/
...how much longer?
I have 8 broken computers on my bench here that are in various stages of automatic processing. Getting a bit bored between clicking "next" buttons :\
Fox is reporting that the plane had already begun to turn before the goodnight call:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...ckpit-checked-in-12-minutes-after-course-was/
They said to make that change, it would be hard to do without the other pilot noticing:
Edit: Not sure why a former FAA spokesman is speaking like this on the issue:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...laysian-jet-focuses-on-southern-indian-ocean/
Edit 2: NBC has a story on it, citing "sources":
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...-u-turn-programmed-signoff-sources-say-n56151
Edit 3: CNN too:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-path-change/
I don't trust foxnews at all. They, along with CNN, want us to believe that the sky is falling. Top stories on Foxnews are that al qaeda is going to bomb us, America is in danger, and that the missing flight is teaching terrorists a thing or two.
...how much longer?
The best approach would be to recover the missing files, reconstruct the simulations.
Also track down his wife and kids, follow them, monitor their communications.
That is one thing I haven't heard anything about...the captain's wife...
Did she leave him prior to this event?
Has she been interviewed?
I would recommend a series named "Air Disasters" on Netflix to anybody in this thread. I watched it a few weeks ago, and I think it definitely helped me understand a lot of what's going on now.
LOL!
I understand that. I have 16 credit card terminals in the same situation. I usually occupy my time with fail videos on youtube
1. If there was an electrical fire, that could have taken out the electronics. Thailand said the UFO they tracked had an intermittent signal. ACARS & transponders were turned off, but the second-level ACARS (ping from satellite) was still functioning 7.5 hours into the flight, indicating that the plane still had power.
2. It sounds like standard procedure is to shut everything off in the event of a fire (reboot!). Plus you can turn off a lot of the communications systems right from the cockpit as demonstrated in one of the news videos linked above, which is standard procedure when you land so you're not constantly pinging the tower from the ground.
But what's weird is:
1. They think the flight path was reprogrammed prior to the goodnight call
2. One of the pilots had a serious flight simulator at home, apparently with flight path history files that had been recently deleted
How can they possibly tell that files had just recently been deleted? Deleted = not there, therefore how would they know unless they did a recovery process on them?