The pilots and crew of the missing plane, was something wrong with ALL of them?
Sylvia
What Ailed Those Pilots ... ?
by snowbird 55 Replies latest social current
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cofty
Faith perhaps?
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snowbird
LOL.
Maybe ...
Sylvia
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Slidin Fast
I am waiting for the conspiracy theories. I am pretty sure it was related by a black hole, space time oddity to 9/11.
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kaik
I personally believe that the plane was diverted into southern Indian ocean and crashed as a political statement by the pilot. It could not crash in heavily populated East Asia or coastal areas that have one of the highest densities of shipping traffic in the world without anyone to see it. After 30 days, the chance the plane will be located diminishes to null. Malaysian government deliberatly misleaded the world public, nobody really knows which way this plane went and with it will mask political troubles in their country. It is hard to believe that any airlines could be so cheap that they have not had installed GPS tracker to locate their fleet, something that is standard almost on all trains and other public transports. I do not think we will ever figure out what had happened.
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snowbird
Such a sad situation.
Sylvia
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under the radar
I happen to be a 777 captain for a major US airline. I was in Asia all last week, including Singapore, which is very near where all this happened.
First off, the talking heads of the media have put out a lot of inaccurate and incomplete information. Some of things they've talked about should not have been revealed on TV. There are certain technical details that the public has no need to know. That kind of information only helps those with evil intent. Entertaining and/or informing the public does not justify revealing strategic information that can be used against you.
Another thing: it seems to me that the "authorities" are wasting considerable time chasing certain "clues" that capture the public's interest just so it will look like they're doing something. For example, the captain's home flight simulator. That kind of thing is nothing more than a glorified video game and cannot be used to learn to actually fly or to practice some new maneuver you want to do in an actual airplane. I believe he had a gamer's control wheel, which resembles an airplane control wheel, but you'd have none of the feel and control pressures of the real plane. And you operate most of the controls and switches in the "simulator" in a much different way than in the airplane. Trying to train for a "mission" with that would actually be counterproductive, even negative training. A pilot of his experience wouldn't need his simulator to train for whatever happened on that plane anyway. I don't think he had any involvment whatsoever in the incident. Of course, I don't know what happened, but I'd be shocked if he had anything to do with it.
The media is also making much about the fact that the copilot had invited people into the cockpit in the past. That is against the rules, but he couldn't have done it without the consent of whoever his captain was that day, so it wasn't something he did just on his own. And I don't think it has anything at all to do with what happened last week. If, and this is a big IF, he had anything to do with this, his trying to impress a couple of pretty girls a while back is unrelated. I'd be much more interested in finding out if he had strong political or religious beliefs and had possibly been radicalized recently. While I think that is very unlikely, it is much more pertinent that his showing off for young women on occasion.
For what it's worth, I believe our government has far better surveillance capabilities than is publicly known. Probably other governments do too. I would not be surprised if they know exactly what happened to that plane and where it is, but cannot reveal that information without giving away just how extensive and far-reaching those capabilities are. It could be a similar situation to when the British and Americans had broken the German and Japanese codes during World War II but didn't act on any information gained that way unless it could also have been gotten from at least two other sources. It was that important to keep the secret. Makes you wonder...
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snowbird
It surely does make you wonder.
Sylvia
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JeffT
Under the radar
A few years ago I worked for a guy that had been an F-4 pilot for the navy. One time he attempted to play a non-pilot's flight simulator game. First, he noted that the owner of the game was flying at Mach 2 with the landing gear down. When he took over a few minutes later he gave up quickly, saying he couldn't do it because it didn't feel right. Without the G-forces it didn't feel like the plane was doing what he told it to do.
I agree, that thing could not have been used as a training aid. I'm not a pilot, but I'm a long time history buff, and I've studied warplanes a lot. I concluded a few days ago that the vast majority of talking heads don't actually have a clue what they're talking about, and certainly don't have any facts to support whatever theory they're pushing.
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ShirleyW
THe latest theory I just read is that they're wondering why there were no cell phone calls placed from the passengers (like their was on 9/11), perhaps the pilot just headed straight for the ocean or something. I have to say though, when I read the names of the pilots, similar to those involved in 9/11, I have a feeling that it was intentional, but at this point no one will ever know.