Wtf? How does a plane vanish?
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universe ,planet , have you been norfolk its not a county its britons area 51
If that's where the plane is stu, Norfolk, expect men in black suits and a black saloon to pull up outside you house soon, very soon.
only kidding mate ,yes it is nice in fact i feel very fortunate to live in a setting such as norfolk
i think they would be in sacking and have a horse and cart,muttering and pointing to the sky gods about a big iron bird
Planes have vanished and been found many many years later. There was one that disappeared from radar and was not found for decades. It crashed into a mountain which set off an averlanche and covered everything in deep snow and Ice. This thawed out years later and plane wreckage started to appear.
The black boxes do give out a signal but its by no means accurate and there have been many instances where finding the black box has been difficult.
Planes can also fly below radar so its quite possible the plan had a problem ended up very low and crashed at speed leaving lots of small parts in the sea away from where they are currently searching.
The biggest worry for me is the 777-200 is a very reliable aircraft. To my knowledge there has never been a major incident involving one and this is the first full loss. If its a design fault with the aircraft they need to find out what happened as soon as possible. The 777-200 is one of the most used wide bodied aircraft in the world, its very worrying that one has inexplicably gone down.
I fly a lot & there are certain airlines that I've blocked on my profile so that I NEVER fly with them. Even if I miss a flight it ensures I'm not re booked on one I don't wish to fly on.
That said there are around 1200 777's in service & the only other major incident was with British Airways when a fire broke out in one of the wings while landing at Heathrow in 2008 which considering the number of flights made daily is pretty dam good.
latest speculation is the (hijacked?) plane flew for another 4 or 5 hours and has landed - maybe at a disused airstrip in Pakistan or the Arabian Sea area
That's mental - if it was a 2-seater propeller plane I could understand but a 777 with over 200 people on board - one of the biggest aircraft there are now - mad!!
Surely some one would have picked that up on their radar when they enter someones airspace. Or their defences are highly vulnerable, I mean its a massive **** off passenger plane!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ur-hours-after-lastknown-contact-9188719.html
US investigators are examining whether missing Flight MH370 was “intentionally diverted” from its planned route after new data revealed the plane may have flown for a further four hours from the point of its last confirmed location.
A report in the Wall Street Journal said US counter-terrorism officials are examining the possibility the plane’s course was changed “with the intention of using it later for another purpose” and that its transponders were intentionally turned off to avoid radar detection. Police in Malaysia have been questioning the family of the chief pilot in an attempt to determine whether he was suffering any psychological problems.
The report said data downloaded automatically from the plane’s engines, suggests the plane flew for a total of five hours. Its final confirmed location was at 1.31am last Saturday, about 40 minutes after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. At that point it was heading north-east across the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand on what should have been a six-hour flight to Beijing.
If true, the information downloaded from the plane’s Rolls-Royce engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring programme, suggests the plane could have flown on for up to 2,000 miles and reached as far as northern India or even the north-west coast of Australia. It would expand the possible search area almost limitlessly.
I fly a lot too, usually to the US.I normally fly Virgin or United, but my next trip is on BA. United use 777's a lot so I have made a lot of trips on them. My forthcoming BA flight is on a 777-200
I would be interested to know which airlines you don't use and why, I hate flying but I have to do it for work.
There was a problem years ago with fuel freezing and clocking up the fuel intake pipe (I think on the 777) but that's been fixed.
All this talk about it flying for another 4 hours seems skeptical to me, you can't tell me millitary radar did not pick it up in that time, conspiracy theories will run wild on this. It took 2 years to find an Air France site that went down in the sea. They will find the plane, it will take time but they will find it.