Thailand has announced that they detected a plane on their radar, at the time that MH370 was diverted and now say this was indeed the missing 777. Arthur Rosenberg, the former pilot and now aviation consultant says given this new information, the most likely track is now the northern part of the arc, not the southern one. To him, this is not consistent with a suicidal flight crew or lone pilot but suggests more of a carefully planned mission by a different pilot altogether, or even the original pilot, but it would have had to have been someone highly skilled. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-mh370-search-spreads-through-australia-sized-area-1.2576620
Rosenberg has been interviewed on CNN and the CBC interview is also on the website.
I think what we know far better fits what an actual pilot has suggested, namely electrical fire causes the pilots to shut down systems until they figure out which ones are bad (bringing them back on one by one) and the hard left was a turn towards a favorable airport for an emergency landing. Assuming it’s some wild pilot-suicide scheme is the opposite of logical.
I was under the impression that if I showed up in wherever, say Pakistan, with my phone, I’m not going to be able to automatically receive and place calls, even with a phone having a compatible wireless chipset, without having taken some proactive action ahead of time to enable such service.
Why not? They detect a fire, make a left turn to head to the nearest airport, the pilots pass out and the plane stays on autopilot until running out of fuel.
Your phone would not automatically be able to receive or make ordinary calls. But (at least with GSM networks; I don’t know how the American system works) it would still be able to call 112 (the universal GSM emergency number), and would be in communication with a cell tower.
Here’s a rebuttal to it from Slate. Basically, the theory the guy put forth only makes sense if the first deviation from the planned course was the last thing the pilots did. The evidence that currently exists contradicts that.
that presupposes a few things
a) The phones are within range of a tower (i.e - in a geographic region with cell phone coverage)
b) the phones are not being blocked by some form of cell phone blocker
c) The phones are not underground, or in some form of bunker that will block the signal
I would presume that it can be known if a specific phone number connected to a specific network, and over time this may well come out (if a phone did connect) - however, I wouldn’t read too much into it if a phone hasn’t connected either
Sounds good, do cell towers keep track of all attempted connections? Seems they could make a list of all IMEIs on that plane, and tell all providers to check for those numbers. At least it might solve the mystery of ringing cell phones.
There is no mystery. The ringing is a false sound sent to the caller to make them think that something is ringing on the other end. This has been true of all landline systems since the 1950’s and cellphones use the same concept. It is only ignorance of how it works that makes people think there is a ringing on the other end. That is NOT what you are hearing, and never was.
