Doesn't the NSA have all of the GPS tracking data for all of the smart phones on the plane?
Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
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#192Finding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is a problem google could solve by crowdsourcing the search on the google doodle They could use an algorithm to generate different satellite images through the possible search images as the google doodle, they could put a toggle button, 'anything look like a plane or wreckage here?' Yes/no. For every yes, show it to more people, see if they agree I’m sure google has better algorit…
Isn't Tomnod doing this already (although I don't think they've updated their images to the newest area)?
Think of the eyeballs Google could add to the project by making it the doodle though
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#193Why are we still looking for this damn plane? Thirty countries involved? Thirty nation's worth of ships, planes and satellite analysts, flying and sailing around and for what, some debris and a box? To buy the families closure of some sort? Maybe a defect in the 777? To keep hope alive that the passengers might be alive and safe somewhere captured by reasonable terrorists with a lot of food?
Doesn't seem worth the fuel.
These black boxes from what I heard stop pinging after a month. Can we stop then, and just move on in life until one day some seat cushion washes up in California and have a moment if silence? Without it pinging, just how wide an area can a ship in substantial depth detect a wingtip?
I realize you didn't, but if you ask me, they should just frame that copilot, say they found on his flight simulator evidence that he intended to make that "deliberate" turn every night, disabling the transponder with the ctrl+shift+T combination and purposefully crashing hours later each time in a different location, with known Islamic terrorists on his WhatsApp and Skype, or a suicide note, then call off the hunt, pay the families off for failing to screen this guy effectively, bam, there's your closure, problem solved.
/insensitivity
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#194Doing this is sure cheaper and easier than building a bomber capable of deploying a nuclear weapon or another type of WMD. Definitely cheaper than building an ICBM.
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#195Good theory. Yours is as good as anyone's at this point in time. Incredible, how we think that our tech is so advanced yet a commercial jet can go completely missing. MH370 makes for an incredible setup to 'Lost'.
> MH370 makes for an incredible setup to 'Lost'. I believe it's more like Timtim's Flight 714 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_714
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#196I really wonder how much of this rampant speculation is just people desperately wanting 300 people not to have died, either at all or just for no reason at all. Secret terrorist masterminds secretly hijacking a plane is more comforting than "sometimes shit happens and people die and there's nothing anyone can do".
Great, except where are the dead people? And how did the plane keep flying for 7 hours after they were "dead"? Too many unanswered questions, me thinks.
Perhaps the plane didn't keep flying for 7 hours but it kept floating on the water for those 7 hours (at least that part/device).
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#197Just a quick question, but I'd have thought the number of airports where a plane the size of MH370 could land would be quite small. Is it not possible to work out the number of airports within it's range, and examine those?
here you go: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/03/15/mh370_the_...
Someone already thought of it! Perfect, thank you.
Re: Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
#198Why are we still looking for this damn plane? Thirty countries involved? Thirty nation's worth of ships, planes and satellite analysts, flying and sailing around and for what, some debris and a box? To buy the families closure of some sort? Maybe a defect in the 777? To keep hope alive that the passengers might be alive and safe somewhere captured by reasonable terrorists with a lot of food? Doesn't seem worth the fu…
I expect this type of comment on Reddit, please take it there.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
First of all, hijackers would have threatened passengers to give them their mobile phones. If the plane indeed was landed on a remote airport with the passengers alive, the hijackers would have stripped the passengers of their clothes to ensure nobody could bring weapons or devices with them. By now, most mobile phones (even the Nokia developing world ones) would have been out of battery.
I find it a little disturbing that the passengers would be so docile, especially after 9/11.
Well problem is for them the cockpit door is very secure. They can try to open it all day but they will not be able to.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hijackers would probably want to make it public. It's an insurance for their safety right now. A government might simply bomb the parked aircraft and blame it on a crash or the hijackers.
There are ways to cover that - not all the hijackers will be with the plane. All they've got to do is keep some proof of the negotiation for the survivors to publish and that would be easily disprovable. Besides, if they knew where the plane is to bomb it this would be a hostage situation right now. They might be in a country which wouldn't welcome the incursion but I can't see the Chinese being overly bothered about…
But why not make it public?