Could have been smoke/electrical fire in the cockpit/cabin that incapacitated everyone, and burned wiring that rendered the transponder unit inoperable. It is in the water.
Looks like no debris found at those images provided by China I heard this morning, the Rolls Royce engines send signals to Rolls Royce every 30 seconds, so they can tell how they're running... and they were sending those signals for 4 hours after the transponder stopped working.
Or 4-5 hours, plenty of fuel to make it to Pakistan. Even the U.S. officials are suspecting foul play now. It took them six days to finally admit what has been obvious all along. "They also gave new details on the direction in which the unidentified aircraft was heading - following aviation corridors identified on maps used by pilots as N571 and P628. These routes are taken by commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East..." Finally, they admit it was headed to the middle east. You watch, it will be revealed over the weekend where the plane is and who has control of it. They probably know right now, but want to wait until no/slow news weekend to reveal it.
its called ping. sends a sig to a satellite every hour which relays to engineers on the ground. engine functions, rate of fuel and oil use, all systems etc. but not a locator.
The easiest, most humane, and create no mess way to do it would be to completely depressurize the cabin. Everyone one board would die instantly.
The aircraft emergency systems will detect loss of cabin pressure and automatically release the oxygen masks. After the oxygen is used up then they would pass out and eventually suffocate.
Eh, maybe. Ambient air pressure is so low at that altitude, they would have seconds, if that,, to react.
My original (and continuing) theory is that the pilots had to have been involved somehow (or perhaps one of the pilots and the other was eliminated). They are really the only ones that could make it just disappear.
Pirate attack? I don't know how valuable a 777 full of luggage and potentially killed off passengers and crew might be, but the way you're talking here makes me think of a possible heist.
The airplane has vanished on air... I only see one rational choise (I don´t believe in "little green men", martians or ghost, or dimensional gates or scary movies....): It happened what happened, They are not telling the truth (desinformation). A plane doesn´t disappears from radar (not even F-117), a plane doesn´t land without being detected, a plane is not hijacked without knowing where it has gone... só, the only real for whatever reason, the media are not telling the truth, either because they are intoxicating or because they are being intoxicated.
Life isn't like the movies. There are areas of ocean not covered by radar. An abandoned airfield in a low population area or even an abandoned road somewhere would easily accommodate a landing, and hiding it from satellites, if they're sophisticated enough to pull all of that off, is child's play. I'm not prepared to say absolutely my theory is correct. But it's looking more and more likely, and it scares the hell out of me because I can only think of a handful of reasons bad guys would want a plane of this size, and none of them are good.
Yes,. but air traffic control radars would observe instantly deviation from the route. Yes, for a few different planes... not for a Boeing 777 jet... What space does it need to land? 2.000? maybe 3.000 metres? and that in a ready runway a 777? We aren´t speaking about a Cessna...Your theory would only partially possible if could have gained the full support of a state...We also have logistical problems (239 people per day eat a lot) and the reason for the kidnapping .. terrorist hijackings seek notoriety, not silence. Too much sophisticated, many people, many help from very different places etc etc... and the Motive?I just hope that all people are safe, but I fear the worst.
Civilian Air Traffic Controllers didn't even notice the plane was missing for 90 minutes. A couple of reasons for that. It was late at night, ATC staffing was probably low, and I'm told that ATC in that part of the world is some times a little lazy. Not to mention, once the transponders are turned off, unless the radar's primary mode is on (and generally, it isn't because it creates too much static from birds and clouds and stuff), it would totally disappear from the screen. Depends on the weight. But you would be very surprised in an emergency situation how little runway a modern airliner needs. The ones you've experienced are slow and gentle for comfort. If comfort is not important, they can cut it by half or more. Sadly though I think the plane survived, I doubt the passengers did. And I can't rule out state support. But you would be shocked how many abandoned air fields there are in the world. Some with rusty old hangers big enough to stick a 777 into. And I am not in any way ruling out the support of a State.
Scary in the sense that they were able to hijack it, or that they might do some damage with it? If the former I'm not concerned. Quite the opposite. Aviation security is absolutely absurd - far beyond anything the free market would possibly demand. If the latter, what's the worst they could possibly do? Bomb a building? That sucks, but in a world of 8 billion some bad (*)(*)(*)(*) is bound to happen every now and then. Don't worry about what you can't change.
I would guess that it's a pilot suicide, one of the pilots killed the other with the cabin door locked, turned off the transponders and changed course. The plane crashed when it ran out of fuel over the Indian Ocean, in a place thousands of miles away from where it was supposed to be. Not even pilots knew about the system that reports engine data, until it was just revealed. So a pilot wishes to commit suicide, but not reveal that to the world, so he makes the plane disappear into thin air, without a trace, no wreckage, nothing. The passengers wouldn't even know anything is wrong. Except the pilot didn't know about the engine data reporting system. As far as hijacking the plane, certainly not to use again, even if you could put it down on a remote hidden runway, you'd need to fuel it up, and take off, and that's a pretty tall order. But what if you knew there was a courier on the plane, with shipment of diamonds, or something of like value worth tens of millions or more, then piracy becomes a possibility. But a long shot.
> Hostile middle east country hijacks plane > Plane gets repainted and a reprogrammed transponder as a legitimate charter plane > Files flight plan to several neutral countries then on to the U.S. or what ever country they want to harm It seriously could happen.
