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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 O__________O »

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…

My understanding is the emergency doors pull inward and once cabin is depressurized, they are possible to remove; very possible that’s wrong though.

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

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Post by roxgib »

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.

From the report it was recovered from backup files at the system level, it wasn't as simple as a save game file or whatever. It's possible there's more data there or that what's there has different interpretations - we can only speculate at this point based on the very limited information that's been released.

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

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Post by EricE »

dml2135 wrote: post #29

Fascinating article. I had a chuckle at this excerpt: >The Malaysian investigators did look into whether the cargo could have started a fire, noting that it consisted mainly of ripe mangosteen fruits along with a small number of lithium batteries. Extensive attempts by the investigators to get mangosteen juice to react with the batteries and trigger a fire were unsuccessful. I'm sure plenty of people here have spent…

Strikes me as a desperate attempt to save face and explain away the most plausible explanation - that one of their pilots committed an atrocity.

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

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Post by swyx »

apparently Ocean Infinity, the private salvage search company mentioned in the article that spent millions on a "no find no fee" search for MH370 is committing to doing it again this or next year: https://www.reddit.com/r/MH370/comments/t85bdv/ocean_infinit...

how exactly do these guys fund themselves? this must be a horrendously expensive enterprise and fairly infrequent at that.

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

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Post by wnevets »

phlipski wrote: post #5

Fascinating read but for some REAL fun Jeff Wise's "Russian Hijacking Theory" is pretty awesome.... http://jeffwise.net/2019/03/09/the-russian-passengers-aboard...

>His wife, Elena, gave several interviews to local media. In one, she calmly indicated that her husband was still alive. “He’ll be back,” she told the Komsomolskaya Pravda, “and he will tell all.”

How did that turn out?

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

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Post by jjeaff »

EricE wrote: post #273
dml2135 wrote: post #29

Fascinating article. I had a chuckle at this excerpt: >The Malaysian investigators did look into whether the cargo could have started a fire, noting that it consisted mainly of ripe mangosteen fruits along with a small number of lithium batteries. Extensive attempts by the investigators to get mangosteen juice to react with the batteries and trigger a fire were unsuccessful. I'm sure plenty of people here have spent…

Strikes me as a desperate attempt to save face and explain away the most plausible explanation - that one of their pilots committed an atrocity.

Considering lithium batteries have been known to combust in an impressive firestorm, it definitely seems worth trying to rule out. But the fruit being involved does seem implausible.

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

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Post by jquery »

nobrains wrote: post #27

The article doesn't mention the amateur ham radio interference pattern research data to figure out the flight path. See this: https://youtu.be/Jq-d4Kl8Xh4

I looked into this, it’s a sham theory. Such tech doesn’t exist.

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

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Post by listenallyall »

yellowapple wrote: post #270
themodelplumber wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> I created an OpenAI account solely so I could ask

was it worth it? no.

Feel free to ask OpenAi whatever happens to amuse you. Please don't waste the rest of our time or attention or bandwidth on it. Nobody cares.

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

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Post by phire »

lxgr wrote: post #232
TylerE wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The newer systems that have come online over the past decade or so (partially in response to 370) actually use the iridium satelites

These systems are using ADS-B and are only designed for operational/informational purposes so far, as far as I know. They are not used for air traffic control or other safety-critical purposes.

And for anyone who doesn't know; ADS-B is simply the aircraft voluntarily reporting its own GPS coordinates.

So it's not going to help at all in a MH370 scenario.

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

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Post by absenceOfQuiet »

treeman79 wrote: post #164
femto wrote: post #158

> However, engineers also could not rule out that some or even most of this frequency offset was due to the crystal oscillator inside the transmitter warming back up after the power interruption. Didn't the plane have two power interruptions, the first of which it is known that the plane wasn't in the process of crashing at high velocity? I wonder what effort was made to compare them, possibly allowing the effects of…

20 years In college we had a link between campuses for the mainframes. Occasionally systems go out. When that happened. It was my job to replace the lightbulb that sat on the transmitter to keep it warm.

Interesting. Why do transmitters need to be kept warm?
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