blues deville Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 CNN is reporting again about this mysterious missing plane. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/03/asia/mh370-final-report/index.html Coincidentally I recently flew with a former MAL pilot who was the duty Captain at Malaysian the night MH370 went missing. He spent several days at KUL Operations after the event. There is strong belief amongst some former MAL 777 pilots that this may have been a repeat of what happened to the Qantas 747 and an O2 bottle exploding. Apparently Malaysian had a history of issues with replenishing bottles on their aircraft. If the valve failed and the bottle damaged the fuselage plus loss of crew O2 it might explain this unusual event. The crew 02 bottle is located in the forward EnE compartment. (Schematic below) He also told me the last known radar tracks show the 777 lining up exactly for an ILS22 approach at Penang (PEN) Malaysia. An airport the Captain would have known quite well. Of course it never completed the descent into that airport. Here is a link to the Qantas flight 30. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakelad Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 . Did MH370's pilot take one last look at his hometown before he took the doomed plane down? Experts assembled by Australia's '60 Minutes' think they've finally solved the mystery of the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight Tue May 15, 2018 - Washington Post Cleve R. Wootson Jr. All but one of the 239 people on the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had probably been unconscious — incapacitated by the sudden depressurization of the Boeing 777 — and had no way of knowing that they were on an hours-long, meandering path to their deaths. Along that path, a panel of aviation experts said Sunday, was a brief but telling detour near Penang, Malaysia, the hometown of Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah. On two occasions, whoever was in control of the plane — and was probably the only one awake — tipped the craft to the left. The experts believe Zaharie, the plane’s pilot, was taking a final look. That is the chilling theory that the team of analysts assembled by Australia’s “60 Minutes” have posited about the final hours of MH370. They suspect that the plane’s 2014 disappearance and apparent crash was a suicide by the 53-year-old Zaharie – and a premeditated act of mass murder. But first, the experts said, they believe Zaharie depressurized the plane, knocking out anyone aboard who wasn’t wearing an oxygen mask. That would explain the silence from the plane as it veered wildly off course: no mayday from the craft’s radio, no final goodbye texts, no attempted emergency calls that failed to connect. That would also explain how whoever was in control had time to maneuver the plane to its final location. The wreckage has not been found, though hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into the four-year search. The secret of what happened in the final moments of the ill-fated flight — and the motive behind it all — probably died with its passengers and pilot. But the “60 Minutes” team – which included aviation specialists, the former Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief in charge of investigating MH370’s crash and an oceanographer — put forth what they believe is the most likely theory. “The thing that gets discussed the most is that at the point where the pilot turned the transponder off, that he depressurized the airplane, which would disable the passengers,” said Larry Vance, a veteran aircraft investigator from Canada. “He was killing himself. Unfortunately, he was killing everyone else onboard. And he did it deliberately.” Zaharie’s suspected suicide might explain an oddity about the plane’s final flight path: that unexpected turn to the left. “Captain Zaharie dipped his wing to see Penang, his home town,” Simon Hardy, a Boeing 777 senior pilot and instructor, said on “60 Minutes.” “If you look very carefully, you can see it’s actually a turn to the left, and then start a long turn to the right. And then [he does] another left turn. So I spent a long time thinking about what this could be, what technical reason is there for this and, after two months, three months thinking about this, I finally got the answer: Someone was looking out the window.” “It might be a long emotional goodbye,” Hardy added. “Or a short emotional goodbye to his home town.” Flight 370 disappeared March 8, 2014, shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur, with 239 people aboard who believed they were bound for Beijing. The craft is thought to have crashed in the far southern Indian Ocean. The governments of Malaysia, China and Australia called off the official search in January 2017. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s final report said authorities were no closer to knowing the reasons for the plane’s disappearance or the exact location of its wreckage. But the “60 Minutes” experts tried to answer one of the biggest questions surrounding the flight: How could a modern aircraft tracked by radar and satellites simply disappear? Because, they say, Zaharie wanted it to. And the veteran pilot, who had nearly 20,000 hours of flight experience and had built a flight simulator in his home, knew exactly how to do it. For example, at one point, he flew near the border of Malaysia and Thailand, crisscrossing into the airspace of both, Hardy said. But neither country was likely to see the plane as a threat because it was on the edge of their airspace. “Both of the controllers aren’t bothered about this mysterious aircraft because, oh, it’s gone, it’s not in our space anymore,” Hardy said. “If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try to make a 777 disappear, I would do the same thing. As far as I’m concerned, it’s very accurate flying, and it did the job.” Still, as News.com.au wrote, the experts’ hypotheses are just theories — and not entirely new ones. Zaharie and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid were prime suspects in the plane’s disappearance from the beginning. There were rumours that Zaharie’s marriage was ending and that he downed the plane after learning that his wife was about to leave, the news site said. Another theory was that he hijacked the plane in protest of the jailing of Anwar Ibrahim, who was then the opposition leader in Malaysia. A group called the Chinese Martyrs’ Brigade claimed responsibility for the downing, although skeptical officials called it a hoax. Two men on the plane were flying with phony passports, but one was apparently an asylum seeker, and neither had terrorism links. The wreckage, of course, might provide some insight about what caused the airplane to crash, and crews were still looking for it as recently as this year. The latest attempt to discover it was a $70 million effort by a Texas company called Ocean Infinity, according to the Associated Press. The mission scanned 500 squares miles a day during a three-month search. Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Plunkett said the company’s technology had performed “exceptionally well” and collected “significant amounts of high-quality data.” Still, it found no trace of MH370. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 Got to love the Aussies. A night time fly by. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Pusher Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 The video MH370 - The Situation Room | 60 Minutes Australia - Youtube with a runtime of 49 minutes is probably worth a watch. More importantly to understand how the media can manipulate their "actors" to achieve the desired outcome. The participants were - Martin Dolan - former Chief Commissioner of the ATSB., Simon Hardy - airline captain, UK., Larry Vance - former Canadian TSB safety investigator, John Cox - Aeronautical safety advisor, USA., Charitha Pattiaratchi - Oceanographer, Australia, and Tara Brown - Presenter, Channel 9 Australia. Once you've viewed the video, the following Mark Young (South Africa) blog post will help in understanding what the hell was going on, and the insidious manner in which the producers of the program achieved their preordained outcome. The facts and truth were ultimately the victims, while the general public will unknowingly be lead to believe what they saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 I think former Canadian accident investigator Larry Vance’s theory requires more evidence than a barnacled covered flaperon. https://globalnews.ca/news/4215390/flight-mh370-crash-murder-suicide-canadian-expert/?utm_source=skies-daily-news-news-from-the-web&utm_campaign=skies-daily-news&utm_medium=email&utm_term=news-news-from-the-web&utm_content=V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 Former 777 pilot Simon Hardy says the immediate left turn and descent was an evasive maneuver to avoid radar detection however it would also take you towards the nearest airport, Penang, which is capable of handling a 777. A single runway but a major FedEx hub. I could argue my previously posted O2 bottle therory with the amount of evidence produced thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 Case is now closed and final report to be issued. The Australian Transportation Board's investigation concluded that Shah and his co-pilot were probably unconscious at the time of the crash, perhaps victims of a sudden cabin depressurization. http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/national-today-newsletter-mh370-search-italy-politics-eu-1.4675883?utm_source=skies-daily-news-news-from-the-web&utm_campaign=skies-daily-news&utm_medium=email&utm_term=news-news-from-the-web&utm_content=V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Pusher Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 The Seabed Constructor is still making its way steadily northwards along the 7th Arc, and is continuing to launch and recover AUVs. At 30-0330 UTC, SC was stopped at 26° 07.3'S 101° 41.1'E, about 22.5NM east of the 7th Arc. The AUVs are engaged in a grid search with 2km between adjacent tracks in +/- 22NM long swathe centered on the 7th Arc with a WNW/ESE axis. This search is expected to continue until June 08, 2018, so the case is not closed yet. Should nothing be found by the conclusion of the search, it is expected that the Malaysian CAD will prepare their Final Report and release it in a timely manner. That of course will lead to speculation that debris from the aircraft was missed - highly unlikely, and the new focus will then be on a non passive end of flight scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEFCON Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Thanks Woody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Pusher Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 The present search for MH370 has now ended with the Seabed Constructor recovering the last of its AUVs mid survey near 24°55'S 101°40'E at about 07-1900 UTC, and is now heading for Dampier, West Australia to undertake an Offshore Oilfield contract. An expensive exercise for Ocean Infinity, but their profile in the business has gone from zero to outstanding with the technology used and speed of the survey undertaken. The post mortem will now begin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 https://www.livescience.com/64861-lost-malaysia-mh370-crash-site-sounds.html Notwithstanding the story's reference to the 777 as a "four engine" aircraft (para. 6), does this theory have merit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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