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Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MH370 likely had systems that enable tracking deliberately disabled by someone in the cockpit (or they all failed at the same time). That's not part of the threat model for good reasons.

seems quite addressable if that was the case? just don't let humans disable tracking, what's a sane use case for that anyway?

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Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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Better question is what has been done to prevent the next MH370 and I bet the answer is nothing much, it took a back burner once the story was out of the headlines. There are only a thousand reasons aircraft operators might want to know where their planes are and if there are any issues. I’m sure that the gps position and black box data could be streamed over radio and/or satellite.

Feel like if we believe this was a pilot suicide then it would also be important to try to address that - though I'm not sure how unless we fully automated (and people liked that). There has been a German and Chinese flight since with 100+ fatalities where this happened. Given how few crashes there are on commercial flights its one of the biggest risk factors today.

Risk has to be put in context. It's one of the biggest risks, where all the risks are fantastically low against number of flights and passenger/miles. All airline risks are lower than driving.

I would have said the 787 lithium battery risk was more concerning personally. Or the 737 Max problem.

Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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According to experts hired by NBC news, the audio between the pilots and ATC were edited: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/missing-jet-re... For whatever reason, this doesn't seem to be widely discussed.

edited for brevity. You can't edit the recordings of the black box but you could certainly doctor recordings from either side. It mentions that in the article that it doesn't mean anything nefarious but rather just a matter of fact. If they were edited before release, its probably to cut out silence or something. I wouldn't go conspiracy theory here.

Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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post #6

I try to think positively. It successfully landed on the beach in North Sentinel Island, where all the passengers and the crew still live happy lives away from these pesky newfangled life we call civilization. edit: satellite data needs to be bogus though, so my theory makes perfect sense

Civilization can be pesky until someone falls and needs antibiotics to prevent sepsis.

I'm sure this magical island would have some mushroom to deal with that. Obviously.

Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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post #28

Better question is what has been done to prevent the next MH370 and I bet the answer is nothing much, it took a back burner once the story was out of the headlines. There are only a thousand reasons aircraft operators might want to know where their planes are and if there are any issues. I’m sure that the gps position and black box data could be streamed over radio and/or satellite.

> I’m sure that the gps position and black box data could be streamed over radio and/or satellite. Find My: Boeing 777

1) hide your AirTag in some airplane

2) name the AirTag “Boeing 777”

3) you have your personal Boeing in Find My to show off

Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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This is the crux/TL;DR: "Perhaps the most compelling reason to believe that Zaharie hijacked his own plane is its simplicity. It’s the only explanation that doesn’t rely on a series of independently improbable events: given a desire to do it, everything else falls into place as a reasonable part of the plan. In fact, from the timing of the transponder failure to the specific locations of the turns to the flight path…

The part where he had flown the route in a simulator is compelling as well. What a long article though

Except they made this up and he never flew that route, on his simulator or otherwise.

Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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This is the crux/TL;DR: "Perhaps the most compelling reason to believe that Zaharie hijacked his own plane is its simplicity. It’s the only explanation that doesn’t rely on a series of independently improbable events: given a desire to do it, everything else falls into place as a reasonable part of the plan. In fact, from the timing of the transponder failure to the specific locations of the turns to the flight path…

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Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

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post #39

This is the crux/TL;DR: "Perhaps the most compelling reason to believe that Zaharie hijacked his own plane is its simplicity. It’s the only explanation that doesn’t rely on a series of independently improbable events: given a desire to do it, everything else falls into place as a reasonable part of the plan. In fact, from the timing of the transponder failure to the specific locations of the turns to the flight path…

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