Air Malaysia missing.

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Originally Posted by VladTepes

A green is NEVER on the right track, and wants to close the ones YOU drive on.....

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Sorry, but that's both a flawed and overly sweeping statement. I consider myself pro-green, but I'm not anti 4WD. I'm anti dickhead.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yeah, but you're still in a signal area and your phone is still on, whereas they would have been told to turn off their phone before takeoff at KL, I assume, and then have flown out of signal range, so the connection would have dropped out.

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Not necessarily. I live in an area with at best, crap 3G reception, and almost zero phone reception and it won't sign me out. Besides, what if the individuals are deceased?

There is a theory that a small leak might have caused a slow decompression which caused everyone to drift off to sleep and the plane just flew on under the autopilot until it crashed somewhere, but it should still have been sending out regular tracking signals, I think.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

There is a theory that a small leak might have caused a slow decompression which caused everyone to drift off to sleep and the plane just flew on under the autopilot until it crashed somewhere, but it should still have been sending out regular tracking signals, I think.

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Autopilot does not let planes disappear or drop out of the sky.

There has even been a report today of the possibility of one of the pilots being suicidal. The flight deck of a Boeing 777 is a two crew flight deck, there is no Flight Engineer. So there are times when there is only one pilot at the controls, for example toilet breaks. However, the lack of any debris is now very worrying and highly unusual.

On an unrelated topic, anybody remember the show "Lost"?

A ringing phone can just mean the phone is ringing the network, it doesn't have to mean its reached the other phone.

http://technology.inquirer.net/34822...-phones-expert

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

There is a theory that a small leak might have caused a slow decompression which caused everyone to drift off to sleep and the plane just flew on under the autopilot until it crashed somewhere, but it should still have been sending out regular tracking signals, I think.

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You been watching air crash investigation? Happened before, think it was a Greek flight or thereabouts. All onboard went to sleep except one sighted by an airforce jet through the window, that would chill me too he bone. :(

Yes, and wasn't thre something similar in America a while back?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

There is a theory that a small leak might have caused a slow decompression which caused everyone to drift off to sleep and the plane just flew on under the autopilot until it crashed somewhere, but it should still have been sending out regular tracking signals, I think.

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I read that in an article today also. It is nothing more than speculation but the theory is based on an advisory of a potential cracking point at the satelite antenna mount point. A rupture at this point could knock out the tracking antenna and cause slow decompression of the cabin.

A slow decompression failure happened to a small plane out of Perth several years ago, and the plane flew on autopilot to eventually crash up near the gulf in QLD. If this happened to the MH370 flight, it could have flown for thousands of km before eventually crashing. With no satelite "sqwark", only military "primary" radar could have picked it up?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yes, and wasn't thre something similar in America a while back?

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how time flies!...14 yrs ago.. Payne Stewart (pro golfer) and several of his mates died in a Lear jet in which the pressurisation failed -ultimately the plane ran out of fuel...

I'd have thought that the 777 and newer aircraft would have a sensor to detect this...

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Originally Posted by cjc_td5

I read that in an article today also. It is nothing more than speculation but the theory is based on an advisory of a potential cracking point at the satelite antenna mount point. A rupture at this point could knock out the tracking antenna and cause slow decompression of the cabin.

A slow decompression failure happened to a small plane out of Perth several years ago, and the plane flew on autopilot to eventually crash up near the gulf in QLD. If this happened to the MH370 flight, it could have flown for thousands of km before eventually crashing. With no satelite "sqwark", only military "primary" radar could have picked it up?

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nahh pretty much any modern radar would pick up anything down to the size of a cessna, unless it was military and designed not to be seen...

it should have also continued to send out its automated telemetry updates that would have shown it doing a long glide when the fuel ran out (if the depressurisation theory was right)

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Originally Posted by Hoges

how time flies!...14 yrs ago.. Payne Stewart (pro golfer) and several of his mates died in a Lear jet in which the pressurisation failed -ultimately the plane ran out of fuel...

I'd have thought that the 777 and newer aircraft would have a sensor to detect this...

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Some do, in the event of cabin pressure loss the autopilot will initiate the descent to low altitude. I think its only enabled on long over sea hauls when the pilots are realistiacally little more than the passangers with the best view.