A high jacking would’ve had stress in the goodnight.
Who says there wasn’t?
Not if it occurred after the “goodnight.”
Or was done by the person casually *saying *“Good night”.
Who said that and what are their aviation qualifications? What evidence did they base their statements on?
If the plane remained pressurized for some or all of the time at highest altitude those facts would have been irrelevant for the time period cabin pressure was maintained. We don’t even know if the airplane ever lost pressure, at all, for even a minute. It is ALL speculation regarding pressurization and depressurization.
Including the call sign when speaking to ATC is standard radio procedure and is actually MORE plausible than what was originally reported.
If the two men flying the airplane had similar voices that’s entirely plausible. Pilots do not normally say “this is the captain speaking” or “this is the co-pilot speaking”, they just say what’s needed and give their call sign. But hey, don’t let standard practices interfere with your lust for conspiracy.
So you guys think they’ve found the hatch yet or what?
Well, both are pretty plausible. It’s common enough to omit the call sign if there’s no chance of confusion, as might well be the case at 1 AM.
One earlier report from Malaysia (yes, I know) had it that the voice had been identified as the FO’s, not the captain’s.
Greg Feith, the former NSTB investigator, has done an interview where he makes some interesting statements.
I thought the most interesting one is that he says, explicitly, that from his sources all the reports of altitude changes are false :- so far as is known, the plane never left it’s cruising altitude of 35,000 feet.
Thank you for this link and pointing out that the altitude change was reported as false.
Now my mind can’t see how all of those people behind the cockpit died. If this was game of clues we have been deceived.
Breaking news, CNN is reporting that something might have been found, but we aren’t sure if there is anything there or whether or not it is related to the plane. Stay tuned and we will update you when we have more information.
I’m curious why, if true, the climb to extreme altitude was thought to have occurred. And what is the proof, either way?
BBC in it’s recap just now said A) the Malaysian police chief has cleared all the passengers of wrongdoing; B) the case is being considered a criminal act; C) the crew are still being investigated; and D) particularly the pilot, who seems to have been singled out for special mention as not being cleared yet.
Let’s hope that’s not just scapegoating to try to close a case, but that there’s some solid reason to believe he was despondent.
It wouldn’t be unprecedented - hardly anyone who knew Batouty even slightly would have guessed he’d do what he did on Egyptair 990, either.
There’s no absolute proof those claims are false. But Greg Feith says they are, and he has some credibility.
He has demonstrable expertise in this field, and he claims to have sources familiar with the investigation, which is believable, given his CV.
Malaysian police have ruled out involvement of any passengers in the disappearance of a missing jetliner
What’s the Diego Garcia conspiracy theory? I keep seeing reference to it online but not an explanation.
Well, this won’t help Malaysia’s relations with China: Chinese tourist kidnapped in Malaysia
From what I have seen of it on a few Facebook posts from some of my “fringe” friends they include a picture of an airport landing strip on an island from the pilots POV while on final approach claiming that this is a picture sent by a passenger’s cell phone of the airfield at Diego Garcia, a secret US base that no one knows about, blah, blah, blah.
This totally ignores
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[li]Unless the passenger was piloting the aircraft, he would not have the POV to take this photo[/li][li]Diego Garcia is anything but secret to the US public. It was mentioned daily during Gulf Wars I and II[/li][li]So how did the Evil ones keep all the US service people from getting on the internet and saying, "Hey guess what, we have the missing 777 parked here![/li][/ul]
Not to sound crass about things, but the primary reasons that the search will eventually be scaled back iare that Malaysia is a poor country,China has limited resources that could be used in such a search and there were few Western or Japanese passengers on board the aircraft.
Let’s face it: If this were a US air carrier which crashed with mostly US passengers on board, there would probably be 1-3 Los Angeles class submarines and whatever resources the US Navy could muster scouring the ocean floor looking for this plane. If it were a NATO ally, then almost the same level of cooperation would be expected. Japan has demonstrated with the sinking of the Ehime Maru by the USS Greenville in 2001 that they would spend a sizable amount to recover the bodies of their countrymen.
Unfortunately, three missing Americans isn’t enough “umphh” to get our government excited about spending years and ten or hundreds of millions of dollars looking for this aircraft on the ocean floor.