Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: The Theories

[OwlHoot]

This made me think of some catastrophic event, but what if it was a slow decompression thus rendering the pilots unconscious. ...

Wouldn't "slow decompression" be immediately detected by cabin pressure sensors, which would start wailing like a banshee and alert the pilots to don oxygen masks long before they passed out?

[sasguru]

So what knocked out the radar?

Who said anything about radar failing. With slow hypoxia you don't realise anything's wrong till its too late.

[sasguru]

Wouldn't "slow decompression" be immediately detected by cabin pressure sensors, which would start wailing like a banshee and alert the pilots to don oxygen masks long before they passed out?

Good point. I don't know if there are such sensors. There have been past accidents caused by slow hypoxia I believe, although on smaller planes?

I still believe it's most likely that there was a catastrophic event that stopped all comms immediately. It's too much of a coincidence that this particular plane had to be fixed after seriously damaging its wing in an earlier incident.
What if the repair hadn't been done properly or deep damage hadn't been noticed?

[MicrosoftBob]

Who said anything about radar failing. With slow hypoxia you don't realise anything's wrong till its too late.

So they could bizarely find the pilot wearing stockings, with a plastic bag over his head and an orange in his mouth

All because he hadn't heard of xhamster

[suityou01]

Who said anything about radar failing. With slow hypoxia you don't realise anything's wrong till its too late.

Vietnames air traffic control.
The air crash investigators.
The media.
New reporters world wide.

HTH

[sasguru]

Vietnames air traffic control.
The air crash investigators.
The media.
New reporters world wide.

HTH

Whose radar failed? Got any links?

[OwlHoot]

And then there's this:

Helios Airways Flight 522 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Skimming that, it sounds like to miss a gradual depressurisation in a passenger plane requires an almost unbelievably long sequence of oversights and blatant disregard of numerous warnings, which include several pre-take off checks, flashing lights, even oxygen masks popping down.

FWIW, I'm with Sas on this - That earlier wing tip clipping must have weakened or loosened something, maybe a fuel line attachment or suchlike.

[doodab]

Vietnames air traffic control.
The air crash investigators.
The media.
New reporters world wide.

HTH

The radar is ground based. I don't think anyone is saying the radar failed, but that the ATC lost contact with it and it disappeared from their radar. Apparently it never checked into Vietnamese airspace at all.

It seems to me that some sort of rapid disintegration is the most likely explanation that fits the facts, whether terrorism or not is anyone's guess that this point, we won't really know till they salvage the wreckage and piece together what happened and that could take years.

What does the interweb fruitloop network say?

[sasguru]

What does the interweb fruitloop network say?

Ask Suity - he's a collectoid (to coin a phrase) of the most bizarre conspiracy theories going

[mudskipper]

If it was terrorism, you'd think someone would be claiming it by now. Not much point in downing a plane if no-one knows about it.