It's a tabloid newspaper so we really shouldn't be expecting much.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean
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Alternative headline: Flight Simulator X contains data on runways all the world.
Furthermore:
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/statuses/445993005481472002
Good, I don't want to give the news outlet another reason to stupidly blame videogames for everything going wrong in the world.
Slurpy2k20
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Seriously, why do you keep posting this shit? It's like you keep pushing the weakest article, and the insane theories, to support that narrative that the pilot was a criminal/terrorist. Flight sims include runways? Mind fucking blown.
Breaking: WORLD MAP IN PILOTS HOME INCLUDES THE COUNTRIES OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN.
Phoenix
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Here is the deal. Any competent flight simulator will have all of the runways and airfields. Why? Because it allows pilots to get familiarity with various taking and landing situations at different airfields. Hell if the aircraft DID encounter trouble, his constant training with the simulators would have given him a quick understanding of which airfields were his best options given his circumstances. Another tidbit about Flight simulators - you simulate all sorts of situations in them, like losing an engine, losing instruments, failure of control surfaces, etc.
That is the whole point of flight simulators.
Why do I think that this is more mundane than the sensationalism being given? If he ran into trouble and had some real incident (like explosive decompression which would also cause a drastic change in altitude), his first instinct would likely have been to turn for an airfield that he could make an emergency landing at given the condition of his aircraft. This would have taken him back towards/over the mainland - the sharp western U-Turn that people keep bringing up. I'd look at all of the airfields along the flight plan to see where he might have been going. If it was some massive decompression incident, they may have succumb before being able to complete their return to an airfield and the aircraft would continue on auto pilot or on a particular heading - as the news/rumors suggest, until it would have exhausted its fuel.
Boy Wander
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This flying above 45,000 feet to kill the passengers has the ring of nonsense about it to me. The pilot or whomever commandeered the aircraft would need their own independent oxygen supply and would have to fly for at least 20 mins or so at that height to wait until the oxygen supply from masks (which would drop down automatically upon depressurisation) to dwindle.
The more I think about this, the less I can come up with a rational explanation. So I'll come up with a completely irrational one. It wasn't a plane, it was a spacecraft. The people on board were all aliens. They've gone home now. No trace of them or their craft will ever be found.
The more I think about this, the less I can come up with a rational explanation. So I'll come up with a completely irrational one. It wasn't a plane, it was a spacecraft. The people on board were all aliens. They've gone home now. No trace of them or their craft will ever be found.
Maldives daily newspaper is reporting a sighting, possibly MH370,
If true, they're again way off course with search and rescue.
http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062
If true, they're again way off course with search and rescue.
Betta Lines
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You're a few pages late, but this one remains compelling to me.
Pilots are on their own oxygen supply and can cut off the cabin's simply by simply pulling a circuit breaker. And there is a big difference between 35,000 feet and 45,000 feet. For instance, the FAA allows passengers to be exposed to altitudes of 25,000 feet for up to 2 minutes, while literally not one second at 40,000 feet or above. A few planes like Airbus have gotten around the 40,000 foot ceiling by proving they can descend fast enough that the altitude in the cabin never matches the altitude outside, even in the case of an explosive decompression.
I think those only come out with a sudden depressurization. If you wanted to knock everyone out I would think a slow loss of oxygen would be better, people would just get sleepy and drift off instead of a violent loss of pressure.
Seems logical too, with the closest landing strip located here, in line with the Maldives,
So if autopilot was set, it would've continued to travel until it's fuel was drained, thus causing it to probably glide near the Maldives.
would that even be possible w/ the fuel situation?
Seems logical too, with the closest landing strip located here, in line with the Maldives,
So if autopilot was set, it would've continued to travel until it's fuel was drained, thus causing it to probably glide near the Maldives.
Without knowing it's capabilities , I'd assume the US naval base on Diego Garcia would have picked up the plane on radar
that is for sure, they have multiple radars and com towers over the base, would be impossible for a plane like that to pass unknown over that region
Not if it's deliberately flying low to avoid radar.
SniperHunter
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I dont think I have posted many insane theories here. The cctv post was spontaneous, but thats about it. I was only quoting the article. No harm done
You need to chill the fuck out.
Betta Lines
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I think the Maldives option makes most sense if it was simply continuing on a fixed course after aiming at Langkawi and then everybody losing consciousness on board, no foul play.
And then of course, the answer is either the US did pick it up at Diego Garcia and have been intentionally misleading people, or it crashed before they picked it up. Not really many other possibilities if those people did in fact see MH370 flying low overhead.
got damn right.
Randy Lanzarote
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My uncle, who seems to be becoming more of an insane lefty in his advancing years, offered this great theory today: The US is now taking a prominent role in the search operation as it is going to cover up an obvious mechanical failure/crash to protect Boeing from bad publicity. (He then went on to claim how the corporations rule the world, Obama is just a puppet).
My brain was all like.... Wut??
My brain was all like.... Wut??
ThatGuyAgain
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Maldives is no where near the arc that they have shown, but it makes sense without that info. Maybe the 40% from the last ping is way off?
Aika'svyse
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2/3 aint bad
NYCmetsfan
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Seems logical too, with the closest landing strip located here, in line with the Maldives,
So if autopilot was set, it would've continued to travel until it's fuel was drained, thus causing it to probably glide near the Maldives.
Wouldn't a straight flight path curve when projected on a map? Or is that a small enough area where the map's distortions wouldn't make that much of a difference? especially near the equator where there is less distortions when flattened.
At least he got the part about corporations ruling the world right.
Yep, I've been riding with the US Navy theory more than the rest.
ThatGuyAgain
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Ok, this is driving me nuts and affecting my productivity.
Until I see strong evidence of what happened here, I'm resigning to the theory that the plane was abducted by aliens.
Until I see strong evidence of what happened here, I'm resigning to the theory that the plane was abducted by aliens.
Maninthemirror
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CNN coverage is so atrocious
DrForester
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That is more than large enough that a great circle route would be flown. While you could program in a straight line course to the autopilot, but it would be changing course every few minutes.
phalestine
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This is an older plane, which still had some manual components. So very unlikely.
robertsan21
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I like your uncle!
GungHo
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Why would they intentionally mislead people?
Exactly, which is why I'm skeptical what these people claim to have seen was MH370.
News:
Hyderabad techie uploads satellite image of missing plane on CNN site
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...-missing-plane-on-cnn-site/article5801884.ece
Hyderabad techie uploads satellite image of missing plane on CNN site
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...-missing-plane-on-cnn-site/article5801884.ece
Ruh oh. Stuffs getting really crazy now
kaiju
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The Broken Ska Record
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Eeh... Until we get confirmation from someone official, I'm taking that as a rumor.
Chezzymann
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Here is the location on Google maps, FWIW: https://www.google.com/maps/place/S...2!3m1!1s0x3a02782e54099073:0xe230e1d0af8fa119
May be relevant or may not be relevant, but if it was going to land at the Shibpur air field, it would have had to have been oriented north/south (you can scroll to the east and slightly south to see it from that link).
May be relevant or may not be relevant, but if it was going to land at the Shibpur air field, it would have had to have been oriented north/south (you can scroll to the east and slightly south to see it from that link).
Oh shit
this is nuts
kaiju
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http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1105961
And link to satellite imaging map he found it on: https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/brunosan.map-cyglrrfu,brunosan.FlightMH370.html?secure=1#17/13.29431/92.99277
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