Earlier quoted context omitted.
Operational Testing Lead Quality Assurance Tester El Pollo Hermano
Excuse me sir, it is: SENIOR OTL-QA-TEPH
Sounds like a Mayan diety.
Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
201–210 of 457 posts
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
[flagged]
That scenario seems wildly improbable. First, the existence of the large U.S. airbase at Diego Garcia isn't remotely secret. As for an accidental shoot-down of an airliner before any visual identification or confirmation, I suppose it could happen but it goes against every policy and procedure the U.S. is known to follow. If an unidentified aircraft approached an airbase, they would scramble an intercept for visual i…
> Also, there are many examples of the U.S. military making such mistakes and NOT trying to cover it up.
Including shooting down an airliner. No coverup.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
You sound like you have a problem with that, but I can't fathom what alternative course you'd rather them pursue.
It is just a note. I don't mean it to sound anything other than what Wikipedia itself states. I see a tonne of "Wikipedia agrees" but none of "Wikipedia is a living document" and it isn't its place to be a gospel of truth...
Wikipedia is not and cannot, as per their own policies, be the primary source. 'Wikipedia agrees' is shorthand for 'the sources mentioned by this particular Wikipedia article agree'
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#204another great article about a horrible crash.
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-way-down-the-cr...
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
[flagged]
I'd rate the ability of the US Gov't to successfully keep something like that a secret to be roughly zero, plus or minus zero.
> I'd rate the ability of the US Gov't to successfully keep something like that a secret to be roughly zero, plus or minus zero.
You'd be very wrong. There are hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) classified missions going on all the time involving large amount of people. And aside for the exceedingly rare whistleblower, all of them are kept secret for decades or more until they get declassified (sometimes never).
(Not trying to give any credibility to the previous comment, just commenting on how effectively governments keep classified secrets.)
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the point being that accidentally hitting this switch is probably of some concern.
I read a story about the "landing gear down" button being close and similar to the "shut off all engines" button in some bombers during WW2. A few of them crashed after very long flights, on approach of the runway. Inexplicably, they suddenly felt right when they should have deployed landing gears. So aircraft makers learned from that incident that no amount of training can mitigate a bad user interface. Especially i…
That was the "flaps down" switch, not "shut off engines". The key feature of fixed-wing aircraft is being able to glide unpowered; dropping the flaps however would be equivalent to yanking the yoke all the way forward.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the US two people must be in the cockpit at all times. If one of the pilots needs to use the bathroom, a flight attendant has to take their place in the cockpit until the pilot returns. This prevents a suicidal pilot from taking down a plane (or makes it much harder anyway). This wasn't a requirement on Malaysian Airlines at the time. (I don't know if the regulations have since been updated.)
[flagged]
It feels a little more reasonable to me than removing your shoes or restricting liquids. Even if the shoe bomber had been successful, he wouldn't have been able to take down an entire plane. But it's trivial for a rogue pilot to kill everyone on board a plane. Since 9/11, cockpit doors have been reinforced so that it's basically impossible for anyone in the cabin to force their way into the cockpit. Ensuring that there are at least two people in the cockpit isn't too much of a burden and basically eliminates that attack vector.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#208"Before Fariq can attempt to get back into the cockpit, Zaharie reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize." I really want to believe that a single switch doesn't control whether people in the back of the plane can breather or not...
What's with so many of these comments being flabbergasted that there's a switch in the cockpit that can cause harm to everyone on the plane?
Do you realize you're entrusting two people in the front of the plane with your life as soon as the plane takes off? There are probably DOZENS of switches that if they are flipped maliciously will result in everyone on the plane dying.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#209Hearing about all the painstaking analysis of this flight made me wonder something: If you look deeply enough, how frequent are inexplicable situations? That is, if you took all the info from a normal flight, and cut it off at the halfway point and gave it to a group of enthusiastic investigators, would they find aspects that contradicted or truly did not make sense? My guess is they would. This is not to say MH370 w…
It's unlikely, since about 98% of the Earth has transponder coverage, so you at least have position and what the aircraft think's it's altitude is, with pretty good precision and sample rate. It's only in a few spots in the middle the ocean that this doesn't exist. This was also relevant in that Airbus crash from maybe 15 years ago between South America and Africa. This is not a problem on the main to/from North Amer…
[deleted]
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
what, like he somehow smuggled a parachute onboard and then survived a late-night ditch into the middle of the ocean?
Might be wrong, but I had heard it was possible to enter a pre planed flight path. Plane did a turn back over land before heading out to sea.
All air carrier flights are flown from shortly after takeoff to some point in the approach phase on a clearance that is entered in the flight management computer during pre-flight. Until the initial unplanned left turn the flight was likely flying in this manner. The turn itself could not have been executed on autopilot though. It was far too steep. The autopilot flight envelope protections would have limited the bank angle at that altitude. As it is, the plane was likely riding a fine line on the edge of a high altitude stall/spin scenario in order to execute that tight maneuver.