I’ve had with these experts, that’s the last ping from them I’m going to trust …
Woman Claims She Saw Missing Malaysian Air Flight While Sailing In Indian Ocean
Hardly. The pingers are activated by water contact. I’ve never come across any claims that the pingers did not trigger.
Small correction, the quote mentions the Towed Pinger Locator, not the Bluefin-21 submersible.
What an incredible story that woman is saying.
Not only did she a plane on fire, she saw two other planes above it. :dubious:
actually that makes sense when you consider what the other person claiming he saw a plane on fire said. He said it was at a much lower altitude than the normal routes between Malaysia and Vietnam.
There are now 2 people claiming they saw a plane on fire at a lower altitude.
I’m starting to wonder if something like this might have happened:
For unknown reasons, the plane ended up flying towards the US/British base at Diego Garcia. Maybe it was terrorism-related, maybe not. In any case, fighter jets would have been sent to intercept the plane, and if the pilots ignored calls to change course, the plane would have been shot down.
Even if the military was fully justified in shooting down the plane, they’d almost certainly prefer to play dumb, in the hopes of avoiding the inevitable bad press. They could even arrange for the US or British navy to search the appropriate area, to make sure the crash location isn’t discovered.
Really? Why would it have been American planes and not one of a dozen other ill-trained air forces in the area? Why not Vietnam? Or Malaysia itself? Or India?
Sure, and no one - not the military flight controllers, commanding officers, or fighter pilots - would ever come forward to reveal that they had deliberately downed a passenger jet, and not one of the hundreds of sailors on the US or British navy ships sent to search the appropriate area would ever mention having seen airplane debris in the water.
It’s a brilliant plan. This must be exactly what happened.
:smack:
Yes, she saw two other planes, but they were going in the opposite direction.
If it means getting that $5-million whistle-blower reward, I’m about ready to confess that I shot it down.
Okay, but let me turn you in and I’ll split it with you 
Deal!
If that woman saw MH370 on fire or if it was shot down by the military, then how did it keep pinging the satellite for 7 hours? The last ping is especially problematic. The two-way handshakes happen once per hour but the last one originated from the plane and came off-schedule 8 minutes after the previous ping. This is supposed to be consistent with the way the system behaves when it loses power, switches to auxiliary and searches for a satellite connection. The timing is also fairly consistent with the amount of fuel aboard (depending on speed).
In other news, some of the former critics of the Inmarsat data have gone over the raw data and concluded that Inmarsat was right, it went south. The Australian Transportation Safety Board had the data independently re-analyzed and confirmed that it should be located along the 7th arc where they’ve been looking.
There’s nothing wrong with being skeptical of all of this, but it’s hard to just ignore it.
It caught on fire for a brief time and then went on to fly for 7 hours.
Just call of the search already and let it become one of the great mysteries of the world, like the Bermuda Triangle, Jimmy Hoffa, Roanoke colony.
But maybe the plane crashed on Hoffa’s secret grave!
I’ve heard from a reliable source that it’s been secreted away to Al Capone’s vault.
When most such mysteries are resolved, a good percentage of the purported facts and suppositions prove to be wrong - irrelevant, unconnected or just plain false.
Stripped of a few such outlying points, it seems abundantly clear that:
The pilot of MH370, for reasons that may never be fully explained, decided to commit a spectacular and complex form of suicide. He plotted every move carefully, based on his experience and knowledge of the ATC and other systems involved. At the precise point where he was furthest from reach by any overseeing entity, he incapacitated the co-pilot, disabled the tracking systems he could access, took the plane to an extreme altitude and dumped cabin pressure until everyone aboard was dead or disabled, then flew a course designed to keep him off tracking as much as possible. At the furthest reach of his fuel load, over the deepest ocean available, he brought the plane to minimum speed at perhaps 1000 feet, then arrowed it in for minimum impact damage and maximum chance of sinking immediately with little buoyant debris.
Poof.
Is there any hard, confirmed data that would contradict this?
Mainly because its last known trajectory was taking it roughly in the direction of Diego Garcia.
But at this point, I say they just need to give up and admit that they can’t find the plane.