Missing 777

[PILOON]

As to floating pallets etc, remember that the ocean is the garbage dump site for more than 1/2 the world. Heck New York uses barges to dump their trash and many poorer nations even have open pit rivers simply pouring the garbage directly into the ocean.
Then you have the tsunamis that washed tons of debris into the oceans. Don't think for one minute that all that trash (flotsam) has sunk to the ocean floor overnight.
A little while back A Harley Hawg was found on the shores of British Columbia inside of a container.that washed up onto the beach.

Experts? some sure signs;

Gas up a plane ?; jets get fueled, transponders 'squawk', high altitudes become 'flight levels', marine terminology is also used e.g.; knots kmph etc rather than miles and MPG etc. Jet fuel is measured in lbs and not gals.
I suggest that any real expert would communicate out of habit by using the real terminology of the trade.

Just my 2 cent contribution.

 

[MossRoad]

The cockpit recorder only records the last two hours. So if the crew was incapacitated and the plane flew on for several hours, that audio recording will be blank.

Best, most reasonable theory I have heard so far is that the pilot was well experienced and had no bad intentions, something catastrophic took place, the pilot attempted to head for that 12,000 foot runway to the west, lost ability to control airplane, and lost ability to communicate, dropped the plane to 12,000 feet to breath, but didn't make it. The plane then just flew along on its last course rising and falling (porpoising as they call it) until it ran out of fuel and went in. Let's just assume the best of human nature and the pilot had the best intentions until proven otherwise with solid evidence VS pure speculation. Remember, innocent until proven guilty.... we'd all like the same treatment.

 

[V1Rotate]

The cockpit recorder only records the last two hours. So if the crew was incapacitated and the plane flew on for several hours, that audio recording will be blank.

Best, most reasonable theory I have heard so far is that the pilot was well experienced and had no bad intentions, something catastrophic took place, the pilot attempted to head for that 12,000 foot runway to the west, lost ability to control airplane, and lost ability to communicate, dropped the plane to 12,000 feet to breath, but didn't make it. The plane then just flew along on its last course rising and falling (porpoising as they call it) until it ran out of fuel and went in. Let's just assume the best of human nature and the pilot had the best intentions until proven otherwise with solid evidence VS pure speculation. Remember, innocent until proven guilty.... we'd all like the same treatment.

Well said.

 

[Soundguy]

this IS at least as good as any other theory!

The cockpit recorder only records the last two hours. So if the crew was incapacitated and the plane flew on for several hours, that audio recording will be blank.

Best, most reasonable theory I have heard so far is that the pilot was well experienced and had no bad intentions, something catastrophic took place, the pilot attempted to head for that 12,000 foot runway to the west, lost ability to control airplane, and lost ability to communicate, dropped the plane to 12,000 feet to breath, but didn't make it. The plane then just flew along on its last course rising and falling (porpoising as they call it) until it ran out of fuel and went in. Let's just assume the best of human nature and the pilot had the best intentions until proven otherwise with solid evidence VS pure speculation. Remember, innocent until proven guilty.... we'd all like the same treatment.

 

[houstonscott]

Yeah, lithium ion batteries started on fire, quickly asphyxiated everyone on board. The plane lumbered on, steadied on a southern course until it ran out of fuel. No real mystery. HS

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Ockham's razor.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah, lithium ion batteries started on fire, quickly asphyxiated everyone on board. The plane lumbered on, steadied on a southern course until it ran out of fuel. No real mystery. HS

Except those batteries were in a compartment not near any of the electronics that would have caused these types of failures. Again, that's just a theory, no facts to support it as of yet.

 

[aczlan]

The cockpit recorder only records the last two hours. So if the crew was incapacitated and the plane flew on for several hours, that audio recording will be blank.
Best, most reasonable theory I have heard so far is that the pilot was well experienced and had no bad intentions, something catastrophic took place, the pilot attempted to head for that 12,000 foot runway to the west, lost ability to control airplane, and lost ability to communicate, dropped the plane to 12,000 feet to breath, but didn't make it. The plane then just flew along on its last course rising and falling (porpoising as they call it) until it ran out of fuel and went in. Let's just assume the best of human nature and the pilot had the best intentions until proven otherwise with solid evidence VS pure speculation. Remember, innocent until proven guilty.... we'd all like the same treatment.

Great theory other than the whole entering a new waypoint into the navigation computer to change course, then ~12 minutes later signing off with a "Good Night" thing...

Aaron Z

 

[dragoneggs]

Great theory other than the whole entering a new waypoint into the navigation computer to change course, then ~12 minutes later signing off with a "Good Night" thing...

Aaron Z

That exactly is what is bothering me regardless of where they find the airplane. "What up with that?" As Kenan Thompson would say on SNL.

 

[deerseeker001]

CNN report says new info no Survivors

 

[Pixguy]

Yup, Malasian PM announces that it went down in the southern Indian Ocean. RIP

How about waiting to pick up that debris?

 

[dragoneggs]

but still saying the wreckage has not been positively ID'd. Stupid reporting.

 

[dragoneggs]

I am in China now and it is a BIG deal here. Coincidentally at the very same hotel that Michelle Obama is at this very moment. Another story.

 

[dragoneggs]

Satellite ID... wow! Not that I doubt it but that is not positive ID to me.

 

[deerseeker001]

why did this take so long to come out???????

 

[texasjohn]

Yep....I'm soundly focused on the theory of catastrophic failure and educated pilot response OR alien abduction...what better way to get an entire sample of high technology and significant biological sample in one catch, at night, from a location where nobody is watching...clever?

this IS at least as good as any other theory!

 

[Soundguy]

so how can they say it went down south ind ocean without positive id yet?

 

[deerseeker001]

there is something that is not being told here

 

[MossRoad]

Great theory other than the whole entering a new waypoint into the navigation computer to change course, then ~12 minutes later signing off with a "Good Night" thing...

Aaron Z

As I understand it, it would not be unusual for a pilot to enter the next best landing location as they move along a route. And I hear "Good Night" all the time on the aircraft bands as they hand off from one control center to the next. I've been around airplane all my life. I worked at the airport for 6 years. l moved near the airport because I enjoy the sights and sounds. And I hear "good night" from pilots and controllers all the time. It is NOT an unusual thing to hear.

 

[ArtMech]

why did this take so long to come out???????

China was busy with 777 (R.I.P. to those killed whichever the country they are from) within Crimean operation on an other side of the Earth, which now goes to the end... The time comes to find a plane crash location. This is just an observation.