You don't think clearly in the moments before you pass out from hypoxia. Maybe they were making faulty inputs shortly before they passed out
If it's dark out and you have a total electrical failure, how are you supposed to know where you're going at 38,000 feet over dark, featureless terrain? That's of course playing along with the scenario just posted. I think explosive decompression is the actual likely culprit
Kinda off topic, but do we have a thread for the 3 abandoned 747s that have been sitting at a Malaysian airport for like a year?
(CNN)A piece of wreckage from a Boeing 777 -- likely from MH370 -- was found washed ashore over the weekend on the coast of Mozambique, a U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday. The newly discovered debris is on its way to Malaysia for further examination. The wreckage is a piece of horizontal stabilizer skin, the U.S. official said. A second aviation source says there's no record of any Boeing 777 missing other than Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. The mystery of what happened to the plane remains unsolved. The search has turned up some aircraft debris, but also false leads. Debris found in Thailand in mid-January turned out not to be from MH370. In September, French investigators confirmed that aircraft debris found on Reunion Island in July was from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Well they found that piece on Reunion Island previously. I'm guessing they'll never find it or someone will find it by accident a number of years from now.
Ok, so they found parts on Reunion and Mozambique. Where does that mean it would/could have gone down? To the north or south of Madagascar?
With how long ago that MH370 disappeared, didn't they already say they couldn't really determine much from where plane wreckage was found? Just looking at the ocean currents and the fact that those are just generally the way the water flows, it could have crashed almost anywhere in the Indian Ocean and had wreckage wash up in those two places. I think I heard or read that somewhere right after they found the flaperon on Reunion, but somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
Probably correct, yes. But unlikely it made it all the way to north/south of Madagascar before crashing.
I'm sure people much smarter than I can figure out how much fuel the plane had along with how long it took for those pieces to make its way to the island based on ocean currents and figure out a zone where it likely crashed. That's not to say tomorrow or really ever they find the plane. But one would think all of this should be pieces of a huge puzzle they could eventually and hopefully solve.
if it crashed just to the west of Australia, along where the last pings were, that West Australian Current could've spit wreckage north into the South Equatorial Current and take it straight to Madagascar...I'm just sayin'
Agreed, but the consensus is kinda "who the fuck knows" (re: where they could be finding wreckage now) given how long it's been, isn't it?
Ya I mean they basically knew that from early on in the search, and this stuff washing up in Mozambique and Reunion kind of reinforces that they're at least in the general area of where it went down. They'll probably still never find it though
Malaysia saying that the debris found off of Mozambique almost certainly part of MH370 http://www.wsj.com/articles/debris-...most-certainly-from-mh370-1458786791?mod=e2tw
(CNN)A piece of debris thought to be from the Malaysian airliner that went missing more than two years ago over the Indian Ocean has been found in the island nation of Mauritius. The debris suspected to be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished in March 2014 with 239 people on board, was found Thursday on the coast of Rodrigues Island, an employee of the Mourouk Ebony Hotel, where the debris was stored for safekeeping, told CNN. Jean Josie Milazare said two hotel guests, Jean Dominique and Suzy Vitry, from La Reunion, found a piece of debris on the beach. Milazare said police now have the debris. Mauritius, a volcanic island nation in the Indian Ocean that is a bit over 10 times the size of Washington, D.C., is known for its beaches, lagoons and reefs. It lies about 700 miles east of Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. Debris thought to be from MH370 was found on Reunion, an island southwest of Mauritius, last July. And another piece of debris thought to be from the missing airliner was found on a sandbar off Mozambique in February. Dan O'Malley, a spokesman for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, said Australian authorities were aware of the debris found on Rodrigues Island, but he expected Malaysian authorities to take the lead in the investigation.
CNBC Now @CNBCnow 4m4 minutes ago BREAKING: EgyptAir says one of its flights from Paris to Cairo "has disappeared from radar"; the jet is a Boeing 737.
@NBCNews: BREAKING: EgyptAir says plane with 69 aboard from Paris to Cairo vanished from radar http://nbcnews.to/23XQJXu Nice. Spoiler but seriously, that sucks
Jon PassantinoVerified account@passantino Developing: EgyptAir flight appears to have vanished from radar over the Mediterranean