Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: The Theories

[sasguru]

Now run along and watch the video then come and join the grown ups at the big table where we are questioning why the big plane go zoom zoom.

HTH BIKIW

If you had a brain I would have thought you were being ironic but as you don't it isn't.

[suityou01]

OK. I watched it.

I still think you are incredibly gullible. You will take any random bollocks at face value without doing the slightest bit of fact checking for yourself and seem to rely on equally credulous sources for all of your information.

Ok good. Thanks for the feedback.

[doodab]

Oooh neg repping now. Is that how the grown ups sitting at the big table roll?

If debunking some of the random crap you've posted lately makes me a cock then I'll happily wear the t shirt.

You could of course do some basic checking for factual accuracy and commonsense likelihood before posting and save me the hassle.

[suityou01]

Oooh neg repping now. Is that how the grown ups sitting at the big table roll?

If debunking some of the random crap you've posted lately makes me a cock then I'll happily wear the t shirt.

You could of course do some basic checking for factual accuracy and commonsense likelihood before posting and save me the hassle.

You are soooo silly.

[doodab]

You are soooo silly.

You're either trolling or a fruitloop, and I'm not convinced you're trolling as you seem to be emotionally committed to the BS to the point you get upset when it's questioned. Personally I'd be worried if my ego depended on people on some random internet forum taking conspiracy theories that weren't even my own work seriously.

Anyway, back to the terrorism theory. It seems the flight turned so could have been heading to a few places. No distress signal so perhaps it was a hijack and the pilots were just behaving themselves and not fighting back, or were killed and someone else took over, or perhaps they were tricked by a sophisticated GPS spoofing attack that we have reason to believe is within the capabilities of the Russians and the Iranians at least. This last is I think by far the best conspiracy theory I've heard, but only cos it's my own work*

Or perhaps there was a system failure and the jet flew on for some time all by itself.

*the motivation for the Russians being to polarise Chinese public opinion against Muslims to justify forthcoming ethnic cleansing of Tatars in the Crimea.

[darmstadt]

Just heard that everything is okay. The plane is in fact still up there and should land within the next couple of days. Apparently the pilot had only just qualified but hasn't worked out how to get it out of first gear yet and was too embarrassed to radio the fact in...

[greenlake]

Anyway, back to the terrorism theory. It seems the flight turned so could have been heading to a few places. No distress signal so perhaps it was a hijack and the pilots were just behaving themselves and not fighting back, or were killed and someone else took over, or perhaps they were tricked by a sophisticated GPS spoofing attack that we have reason to believe is within the capabilities of the Russians and the Iranians at least. This last is I think by far the best conspiracy theory I've heard, but only cos it's my own work

Someone aboard took advantage of vulnerabilities in the onboard computer network, hacked into it, and remotely took control of the aircraft's communication, navigation, and control systems and either crashed it or landed it somewhere.

https://www.federalregister.gov/arti...ctronic-system

[doodab]

Someone aboard took advantage of vulnerabilities in the onboard computer network, hacked into it, and remotely took control of the aircraft's communication, navigation, and control systems and either crashed it or landed it somewhere.

https://www.federalregister.gov/arti...ctronic-system

And we all know Boeing outsourced this stuff to India, so it was a soft target.

[suityou01]

So you are now entertaining the hijack conspiracy theory then Doodab?

I thought you didn't do conspiracy theories unless they made the front cover of a western tabloid.

[hyperD]

Back to the thread topic.

It seems that, highly unusually, there were no comms from the plane (unless the Malays are hiding something).
This made me think of some catastrophic event, but what if it was a slow decompression thus rendering the pilots unconscious.
If the plane was on autopilot it would continue flying before ditching somewhere they're not looking.
If it wasn't on auto, I guess it would just descend into the ground/sea.

Any pilots on here care to comment? HyperD?

Hi sas, I'm only a PPL with multi-engined light aircraft experience and a lapsed Instrument Rating and don't really know the true ins and outs of the heavies FMS and electrical/hydraulics systems.

As I posted earlier, it seems like a hi-alt breakup but nothing can be gained until the wreckage (and Honeywell BB systems) can be found.

A catastrophic airframe failure doesn't normally pre-warn pilots via the instrument panel.

Slow decompression should alarm (or pilot training to the effects) and the pilots don O2 masks and emergency dive down to FL100+. Rapid/explosive decompression may rupture an airframe and if not, the pilots have a useful time of 30 seconds or so at FL350 to react before confusion, hypoxia and unconsciousness.

Spent a few mins on pprune to catchup.

Transponder appears to have stopped suddenly (so limited scope on civil radar) and suggestions of an all out electrical failure have been raised.

Electrical failure/severe icing or major deviation from the flight director will disengage the autopilots.

Can't see any mention of the realtime diagnostic data stream (ACARS) been sent via the aircraft.

Military primary radar sources have suggested the plane deviated from flight. It takes time for civil to get this confirmed data from military so the delay is normal.

I suspect the major Malay bodies with various degrees of liability are keeping their cards close to their chest and we won't get anything apart from sensationalism from the journos until the wreckage is found (and of course, the full official investigation).

I agree the passports are likely to be a red herring but will be hyped by the MSM.

I also suspect the Malay equivalent of the AAIB/NTSB is not as organised as the latter although I admit that is purely conjecture from what I've read in passing.