Malaysian Airlines 777 with 239 Aboard Missing

Brits are taking a beating over the company that had the satellite info.

My theory......

Plane was carrying dangerous batteries as already admitted to by the airlines. Batteries caught fire and produced a tremendous amount of smoke. The fire took out the transponder and ACARS under the cockpit. Possibly other electronics like the radio. Pilots tried to deal with it but eventually ended up dead along with the passengers. Plane was basically on auto-pilot until it ran out of fuel. Fire didn't destroy the plane because it ran out of oxygen.

Plane crashed into Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia.

If it was fueled for a longer flight, like say to Europe, it would have ended up crashing in Antarctica, the way it was headed. Possibly deep into Antarctica in some part of it where no human has ever been. I wonder who would have got the job of recovering the wreckage / bodies from there.

And how do they get there?

It's like a scene straight out of Firefox.

Otters stole MH370, land it on the ice, refuel and take off again.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...lite-images-show-122-potential-objects-n62356

Looks like this mystery of where the plane crash area is almost solved. Now they just need to get in the area and toll for the black boxes to finish the search and find the plane.

Then on to the investigation.

Chinese Ship Hears "Ping"
Frequency detected in Indian Ocean is the same used by black boxes

Malaysia Airlines searchers say more pings consistent with black boxes heard

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...more-pings-consistent-with-black-boxes-heard/

The depth of the area is 14,800 feet.

Given that they've heard more pings over time I'd say this is likely the area it went down.

Well, derp.

Holy fuckballs, are people still going on about this bullshit? It was a plane full of fuckin' Malaysians. Christ, you'd think it was Elvis Presley, Joe DiMotherFuckinMaggio and Bianca Beauchamp on that plane. If you had a family member on that plane, I honestly and sincerely feel badly for your loss. If you didn't, what's the fuckin' draw for you, exactly?

Some people are interested in the world and not playing a lame character on the internet.

It's a Boeing 777, the safest passenger jet in the world. It's nearly as big as a 747, it carries huge numbers of people around the world, and up until the last 9 months had never suffered a fatal accident since its introduction 19 years ago. (The first fatal was the Asiana plane flown into the seawall by its own crew, killing 3.)

One of them just vanishing without trace is HUGE news.

Otter Boy's right

Besides, we might find Jimmy Hoffa

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-depth-of-the-problem/931/?tid=sm_fb

That's deep.

That's what she said.

Alert CNN! They think they might have found part of the plane!

More at the link.

I hope it's a good clue to MH370's whereabouts.

Of course, even if that piece is from MH370, who knows how far it drifted from the crash site?

Apparently over a thousand miles, based on the time since the disappearance and the currents in the area.

From A Daily Mail story on it

Those coloured circles seem pretty unique, it must be the same plane!

They're establishing that the piece came from a Boeing 777. Only one of those has ever gone missing.

Yeah, that worked. Now, for some of the more "interesting" theories of what folks here thought might have happened to the plane:

If this discovery helps them find the plane, we might have some answers in the near future.

I read that finding the piece is not apt to help locate the plane. At least it does somewhat confirm that the plane flew for several hours deep into the Indian Ocean. I think the crew was overcome by some extreme event--it happened so fast they didn't even have time to communicate distress--and that the plane flew on auto-pilot until it ran out of fuel. I hope the passengers weren't awake for that long ride.

Even if it does, there's no telling how long it'll take for them to fish the plane out of the ocean. That French airliner which went down some years back after leaving Brazil took something like a year to raise, even after they found the plane because of the depths it was at.

Yeah, let's hope that's what it was. I remember hearing that the aforementioned French plane was really doomed because none of the air crew had had more than 4 hours behind the stick in the previous six months because of the automation systems which were on the plane, and that had they had more stick time, they might have been able to prevent the crash.

I think given two facts--no communication and the plane flying straight on until it crashed--allow only two possibilities:

1. The flight crew was incapacitated and the plane flew via automation until it ran out of fuel; or,

2. A member of the flight crew took control of the plan and committed murder/suicide by flying it on a straight course until it ran out of fuel.

I have a hard time believing #2, simply because it would've been a loooooooong wait for the end. And it's likely passengers would've tried to get into the cockpit to stop it if they were able.

I don't think it could've been like the Air France case. The pilot and co-pilot would've have a long time to adapt and correct to any problem--or at least communicate.

You'd think they could study ocean currents and derive at least a general area where the debris came from? At least we know it didn't end up in a hanger in Uzfuckistan somewhere like one of the theories.

...unless of course, this debris was planted by the Uzfuckistanis to draw suspicion away from them!