Missing Malaysia Air plane

[KenAdams]

It's so sad. They still haven't found anything, but thinks it's crashed into the sea.

For anyone that hasn't heard

I keep coming back to the people on board particularly if this was deliberate. I just can't imagine what those passengers must have been feeling, and the crew.

As an aside, also a reason why no senior leadership teams wherever I've worked are allowed to board the same flight dramatic though it sounds. Were there not 20 employees from one company on board?

Malaysian governments don't handle media well. I have friends there who are advising others to follow Australian, UK or US press to get an accurate image of what is happening.

I think there was a group of Americans all from the same company, no idea what the company was.

Its obviously been flown by somebody who knows what they are doing after reading that report, so either the pilot, co-pilot or other.

I think the 14 minute gap between the engines last sending data & there being no transponder response is a bit of a red herring tbh. The engine data is only transmitted every 30 minutes, as far as I understand it, so it transmitted at 1:07 & wouldn't have been due to transmit again until 1:37.

This isn't directly related to MH370 but am taking the opportunity to pick Goldie's brains/musing re aeroplane black boxes.

If all kinds of data can be sent from planes, why can't the data from black boxes be sent or accessed remotely? I suppose that if every plane in the world sent that data would be cumbersome when the majority reach their intended destination safely? But then that data wouldn't have to be analysed & could just be wiped when a plane landed. In this case, if black box recordings were available, the search area could be narrowed down somewhat.

I think I read somewhere that it would be possible to have black box data sent in real time, but very expensive to set up.

Why would they turn the transponder off?

taken by a mothership
could you expand on that at all?

News conference at 9:30am

Andaman Islands? jungle /desert/ or inhabited? could there be castaways/survivors?

Inhabited i think

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands

Inhabited.

This just gets weirder, why would they be flying there?

Waiting for news conference to start

Medetrina if the RR engines were manufactured in the UK, then yes AAIB would have a role.

Aliens?
Cue X Files music...

There's nothing much in the Indian Ocean for hijackers, apart from Diego Garcia. There's plenty there.

There is a link on Facebook at the moment saying that the aeroplane has been found - I just wanted to warn people not to click on it. I did and it refused to let me get off it unless you agree to share it, which I did eventually after trying for ages to get back to my Facebook page. It then crashed my phone.

This one

lessonsintightropes: agree - the company definitely has a role, and also now confirmed that Uk government is part of the official investigation too (mentioned at today's press conference).

They said at the press conference that US information quoted in the press is unconfirmed, but under investigation. The search was extended to the Andamans two days ago, and the area being searched continues to expand in several directions. They have still been unable to confirm that the information which suggests turn back was indeed the missing plane (and given they've had analysts from 13 countries working on this for about a week now, perhaps it simply can never be proved).

They just seem to be as clueless now as they where when it first went missing.

Sorry if this has been covered, but what about the GPS's on people's smartphones? Passengers' phones continue to ring for a time when their relatives tried - wouldn't there be traceable signals from them?

wow. Andaman Islands sound cool - crocodile sanctuary, feral elephants...

SinisterSal: if you scroll up the thread to GoldieMumbles' post at Tue 11-Mar-14 19:19:2, there's an explanation about the phones and why it's a red herring/dead end.

I could barely hear the questions in the conference but did somebody mention somebody on the flight (either pilot or passenger) had a flight stimulator in their home?