Valujet
That isn’t at all evident necessarily for the CVR. In a takeover scenario, it might tell us about a pilot leaving the cockpit and tell us exactly which pilot was left in command. Or it may capture signs of a struggle - just because the airplane itself remained on autopilot and flew just fine doesn’t mean that, say, one of the pilots didn’t take a gun to the head of one of the others and then lock the cockpit door before getting the chance to turn off the CVR.
and I said not every plane that had a fire destroyed it.
Thanks! Keep 'em coming please.
This was published a while ago on the duffel blog (like the onion for the military)
Made me smile
Ditto ↑↑↑ 
For what it’s worth I went to an interesting forum on aircraft accidents. This flight was briefly mentioned and the person giving the talk said it was a deliberate event. When pressed further after the talk about the likely location he said something to the effect that nations with over-the-horizon radar have a good idea where it “didn’t” fly.
Woulda been nice if he had provided further detail.
What nations? Where is it that they’ve concluded that the plane didn’t fly? And how does that information add up to the conclusion that it was “deliberate event”?
Google Helios flight 522 and then you’ll have an idea of what I think happened to this flight.
There are major differences. Helios continued on on autopilot until it ran out of fuel. It actually arrived at the intended destination and went into a holding pattern. It did not make sudden, unexpected changes in course or altitude, and the crew radioed problems (they knew something was wrong, but guessed incorrectly what it was) before they blacked out.
No one has suggested that Helios had an invisible fire or that the pilot intended suicide.
Malaysian police are searching for a Pakistani suspect accused in taking part in a scam in which money was removed from the bank accounts of four people aboard MH370. They’ve already arrested an HSBC staff member and her husband. Story here.
Geezzzzzzzzz, what scum bags.
Rather doubt the Iranian people would find that blog post amusing!:rolleyes:
And the flight is getting the Bollywood treatment.
That was discussed upthread, right? People were hoping the passengers would not be singing and dancing in the aisles during the crash?
Hey this guy directed Kamasutra 3D
It has to be a winner.
I think they realized something was wrong, and they set the heading to go back to Kuala Lumpur, and soon after, they blacked out, leaving the plane on autopilot, and then they blacked out.
The reason the plane did not go in a holding pattern is because they just set the autopilot to go on the heading to Kuala Lumpur, but not to land there.
Still following me?
and don’t forget Swissair 111. (Yes, I know it wasn’t destroyed, but it became uncontrollable.
But this flight path (green) doesn’t look like a heading back to Kuala Lumpur. It looks like a complex, deliberate path out towards the Andaman Sea.
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/why-and-how-did-mh370-end-up-in-the-indian-ocean
I’ve read in reputable (pilot) sources that James Toothpaste has the right idea, but the intended airport for an emergency landing was probably Langkawi, not Kuala Lumpur.
And that the supposed “complexity” of the flight path back across the Malay Peninsula was probably an artifact of faulty or incomplete return radar data. (Certainly, the VERTICAL complexity – the supposed descent and re-climb – turned out to be probably false).