Where the hell is MH370 ??

[Drewboyaus]

Want to know how quickly a flight can go wrong? Check out this about the Air France A330 crash into the Atlantic:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Scary stuff to see how fast disaster can strike on an Airliner! I love flying but it even gave me the heeby geebies.....

[threedogs]

Gee that really puts the F in flying eh

[Clunk]

Tis very interesting.
I'm now not thinking termism though. If it was someone woukd have claimed it by now surly.

Is that like snakes on a plane?

[Hodge]

I love flying but it even gave me the heeby geebies.....

Same here. Love it. But...
Reminds me of our last trip home from QLD. Had time to kill before flight, sat down for a coffee at the resorts lounge and they had air crash investigations going ... And they just happen to air the episode discussing how short flights are most at risk. Thanks !
Needless to say, few stubbies followed the coffee to settle the nerves.

[threedogs]

Now they are looking in the Indian ocean

[Stropp]

my mate is a conspiracy theorist and says that the ping from the plane received by boeing 5hrs after they lost contact has some relevance as the US has an airbase exactly 5 hrs flying time from where it last was on radar, could have some relevance as phones are still ringing etc etc ????

[growler2058]

The only good thing that comes from this, is schapelle and her dodgy clan are outta the news YEE HAA

[Drewboyaus]

Having worked with the guys that build and sell air traffic management systems, Australia is one of only a handful of countries that have continent wide GPS tracking of aircraft. It means that once you get a distance away from an en-route radar site, it's all managed by manual check-ins and proscribed locations. The pilots themselves are ultimately responsible for aircraft separation when beyond radar range.
My theory of the accident is that there are two "reasonable" things that could have happened......I think that it was either a controlled flight into terrain due to a systems malfunction.....their nav and communications systems lost the plot and they flew the airplane into the ocean at speed without realising it. Or there was a cabin decompression and the crew were rendered unconscious and the plane eventually crashed into the sea, also at speed.
But really, who knows. There are so many things that "could" have happened and as per my link above, it only takes a couple of minutes of dis-orientation of the crew to bring an aircraft down........fast.

[Drewboyaus]

Well it's getting stranger now! Apparently various US officials seem pretty sure the flight headed west now after the transponder was turned off and it was still flying some several hours after the transponder signal was lost!

[Hodge]

Who's to believe anything with so many different speculations from every country.
Personally I wouldn't believe breath of what US says.