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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 by outworlder »

whywhywouldyou wrote: post #211
roxgib wrote: post #133

At this point the data from his computer, at least the data from the flight simulator software, should be released publicly so that those with experience can apply their knowledge to reconstructing the data. It's entirely possible that someone with more knowledge of the software in question, rather than a generic computer expert, might have more luck.

What about the data would require an expert to reconstruct? They have the simulated flight path. It's very similar to the final flight path of the real plane.

Probably because it wasn't just a simple 'replay' file.

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

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

chs20 wrote: post #93

I agree that much evidence points towards the pilot intentionally crashing. However, it's not proven and constructing a story around this theory is a bit distasteful. Otherwise, the article is quite interesting.

What bothered me was how personal it was made to be. If it had just said “Pilot A” rather than repeatedly naming them and bringing in personal details, it would have felt more tasteful to me, less… “true crime”-y.

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

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Post by KiwiJohnno »

thriftwy wrote: post #151
interestica wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Investigations have some weird bits. I've always wondered if there's a certain title for the person who prepares the chickens for the 'chicken gun' in airplane testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun

This story has been going around the world for 50 years, and in different variations. According to some sources, the first time it appeared in a publication in USA in 1958, in the professional magazine "Meat and Game" of the California Associations of Game Producers (proven fact). The authenticity of the story, however, is questionable. The FAA has at its disposal a unique device for measuring the strength of aircraf…

I read a story, "Maybe" true, probably not that once one of the testing organizations that did exactly these sorts of tests used to use frozen chickens from the supermarket. They would load the air-cannon the night before the test, then in the morning the chicken would be defrosted and they were ready to go.

However one morning the test results were rather more "messy" than they were expecting. They had no clue what had gone wrong, so they reviewed the high-speed footage to see the chicken leave the barrel along with a stray cat that had been chewing on it when the cannon fired...

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

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ak_111 wrote: post #91

The strangeness of this story - a 777 disappearing into thin air in one of the most surveilled and monitored (due to geopolitics) places on earth leaving no traces behind - has spooked people so much that there is a section on the wikipedia page debunking theories related to black holes.

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

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Post by outworlder »

fosk wrote: post #119
LatteLazy wrote: post #65

To me, the most interesting thing about all of this is that civilian airports don't really have radar. You can disappear from an ATC screen just by turning off a transponder. If they'd had radar we would at least of known which way the plane went. A curious controller could have asked "unidentified object at height X, region Y" who they were and why they were in controlled airspace without a transponder on. The artic…

Radar is not exactly “new” technology, to your point I wonder why airports are not equipped with one. Shouldn’t break the bank. Plus don’t militaries have radar anyways for air defense? How is it possible that no radar from multiple countries picked up a silent Boeing 777 flying to nowhere?

> Radar is not exactly “new” technology, to your point I wonder why airports are not equipped with one. Shouldn’t break the bank.

But it does break the bank. Radar may not be new tech, but it is still expensive to operate. Even the US is removing radars. To be fair, the US has thousands of airports (and even more small airfields), but it has a huge area to cover.

Also, the military angle is covered in the article.

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

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Post by outworlder »

sleton38234234 wrote: post #94
gautamcgoel wrote: post #3

Can someone TL;DR this please?

There seems to be a knee jerk reaction to react negatively to anyone who doesn't read the article or doesn't read it in depth. i don't think the comment about TL;DR OR asking chatgpt is completely out of line. I could see businesses being built on top of chatgpt to create summaries of articles on the internet. This is a pretty big use case. Sometimes, people want a more efficient way to read articles, rather than act…

> You might even be able to ask chatgpt or a service on top ofit, "has this article any new conclusions about the state of Mh370?" without actually reading the article.

The problem is, if ChatGPT doesn't have the data, it likes to create completely fictional narratives.

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

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Post by loeg »

ceejayoz wrote: post #228
loeg wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In an evacuation event, the aircraft would be at sea level and the interior would not be pressurized relative to outside air. You only need to depressurize if you're going to parachute out, which... is not an option in commercial aviation.

Unless you, say, make an emergency landing somewhere like Denver or La Paz.

Aircraft are pressurized to 8k feet above sea level. Denver is only 5k. La Paz, specifically, sure. It’s a lot less broadly useful than your original language made it sound.

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Post by bdowling »

somat wrote: post #115
O__________O wrote: post #37

Curious, based on actual evidence, is there any reason to believe the pilot didn’t exit the plane prior to it crashing?

I don't think you can open the door on a 777 in flight. For comparison the plane that D B Cooper used had a stairway in the back(sometimes called airstairs). He was able to override the in flight lock and get out that way. My understanding is that the db cooper incident is in a large part why they don't put airstairs on planes any more. But now you have me watching videos on 777 doors. they open outward than forwards…

For those who don't know (I didn't), D. B. Cooper is a 1971 hijacker who skydived out the back of a 727 with a $200,000 ransom and was never found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

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

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

pigtailgirl wrote: post #82
TylerE wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you enjoy this sort of thing, I'd encourage you to check out this guy. https://www.youtube.com/user/blancolirio

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