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by Dragonfighter
Mon May 19, 2014 1:48 am
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mojo84 wrote:It could be somewhere being prepared to deliver a weapon of mass destruction. I still think it had to have been deliberately hidden from the radar for it to have disappeared like it did. Just a wild conspiracy floating in the back of my mind. Hope I'm wrong.
Rest easy. The undocumented Muslim males had nothing to do with it. After all, undocumented people get on planes regularly. :roll:

How they can make a statement like that without knowing what happened to the plane, without a FDR recovery or even a reliable radar track is beyond me, but hey.
by Dragonfighter
Sun May 18, 2014 3:12 pm
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baron wrote:BREAKING NEWS

KHAQQ still missing!
Smart A...uh, alec.
by Dragonfighter
Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:24 pm
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jmra wrote:The "Ocean Shield" has detected the pings again.
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"Hopefully in a matter of days, we will be able to find something on the bottom that might confirm that this is the last resting place of MH370," Houston said at a news conference in Perth, the starting point for the search in the southern Indian Ocean.

"I'm now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not too distant future - but we haven't found it yet, because this is a very challenging business," he said.
Someone a week or so ago said, "It's impossible to find the needle in the haystack until you've found the haystack," or words to that effect. Sums it up pretty well.
by Dragonfighter
Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:30 am
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philip964 wrote:I know the families are hoping the people are alive. If we imagine for a second they are alive. Think of the logistics of detaining 250 people for two weeks. No one escapes, uses their cell phone. None of your compatriots tells anyone where they are being kept. Deserted island somewhere? If it was Pakistan, or some place like that they would have been discovered already.

Time will tell.
If you were taken hostage by hijacking and flown somewhere in the back of a plane, could you tell your loved ones where you are? Provided your phone wasn't discovered and taken in the first place I mean.
by Dragonfighter
Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:31 pm
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Dave2 wrote:I was playing table tennis with a few friends today, and one of them had an interesting theory. He thinks whoever stole the plane knew about the satellite thing, landed the 777 right after a "ping", transferred said satellitey bits to a drone, and flew that out over the ocean to crash.

Dunno how much that antenna weighs, or how much a drone can lift these days.
The FMS (computer) is tied in through ACARS, that's how they know the course change was entered in in the first place. Depending on the system a heading and altitude can be entered in in a few strokes, so no "codes" really needed. The ACARS is also how the satellite telemetry is sent and received and can also transmit voice messages. The "satellitey" bits (love that BTW) are too expansive and interdependent to be transferred to anything.

I am not a pilot, but I play one on computer.

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