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But would it explain the transponder being turned off?
this is the thing.
But would it explain the transponder being turned off?
Plus, if it was a terrorist job, surely somebody would have claimed responsibility by now. You don't make a plane spectacularly disappear, capturing global attention, only to then not capitalise on the ensuing publicity.
This really does just get more mysterious by the day, especially with every new revelation/denial.
Unless someone wants to use the plane as a bomb, like its a Tom Clancy novel.
I don't think that's true, but at this point, who can say?
So the WSJ article was correct?The signals were part of the routine pings that are sent out through the plane's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), transmitting diagnostic data about the performance of engines and other equipment to engine manufacturers and airlines.
This shit annoys the fuck out of me. Ok, so does someone now have this information? Is it being looked through? Just because you weren't asked, doesn't mean that you shouldn't be giving this info to someone.Malaysia says it has asked neighbouring countries for their radar data but has not confirmed receiving the information. Indonesian and Thai authorities said on Friday they had not received an official request for such data from Malaysia.
So the WSJ article was correct?
The data transmitted was not Rolls Royce engine data, as WSJ initially reported. However, there was some data sent from the plane to satellites, owned by a company called Inmarsat, for five-ish hours after the last air traffic control transmission.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian government official says investigators have concluded that one of the pilots or someone else with flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
The official, who is involved in the investigation, says no motive has been established, and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
The official said that hijacking was no longer a theory. "It is conclusive."
The Boeing 777's communication with the ground was severed under one hour into a flight March 8 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian officials have said radar data suggest it may have turned back and crossed back over the Malaysian peninsula westward, after setting out toward the Chinese capital.
Ugh. Also just received word that one of the passengers worked for my office while she was in grad school. Just awful. She was such a sweetheart.
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Unless someone wants to use the plane as a bomb, like its a Tom Clancy novel.
I don't think that's true, but at this point, who can say?
The plane could have landed in Kyrgyzstan or China, according to Malaysian officials.
I suppose the key point here is that you can't just land a 777 anywhere, so the probability of it actually secretly landing at an airport ahead of future terrorist use is very remote.
Update, March 15, 9:10 a.m.: When the flight first disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar a week ago, the default assumption was that the plane had crashed. Now it seems unlikely that a plot as ingeniously planned and carefully executed as this one would not also have included plans for safe arrival at some ultimate destination. As I reported earlier, the 777 is capable of landing on small airstrips and on relatively unimproved surfaces, such as packed dirt and dry lake beds. In such a scenario, the odds are good that, unless they were murdered, the passengers remain alive. The motives and intentions of whoever took MH370 remain as murky as ever, but possibilities include a hostage scenario, the repurposing of the aircraft as an enormous flying bomb, or some combination of these and other outcomes.
Flight 370 disappearance: Missing airliner apparently flew to Central Asia.
Maybe^. But I just heard a pilot on cable news say the reason for the plane inexplicably going up to 45K feet could have been so that it would kill all the passengers. He said you'd have only about 3 seconds of oxygen at 45K feet. This assumes, quite obviously, that the pilot would have put on oxygen beforehand.
But if it were landed in a hangar, wouldn't people on board then have been able to use cell phones (I doubt they would've all been killed)? Or been picked up on a satellite?