Thread: Air Malaysia missing.

What I can't understand is.......in the clip in my earlier post, the fellow (whom I assume is a pilot) giving an explanation on what might have happened said the co-pilot may have left the flight deck and the other pilot may have turned on a "deny" button the lock the access door to the flight deck.

Why isn't there a keypad on the outside to allow access by flight crew in the advent of a problem on the flight deck????

Maybe anybody here with flying experience can answer that one.

I spoke to a friend who is a maintenance engineer for a large airline about this. There is a keypad for the crew to access the cockpit but the pilot can deny access to anyone putting in the code. This is so the pilot can control who enters. The crew could be forced to enter the code by terrorists.

I asked a retired commercial pilot, whom I was working for, the other day, what his theories on this were. (I should mention here that I haven't read all the way through the preceding posts)
He said that the pilot had expressed a desire to leave his wife, and that he'd received phone traffic from an unregistered sim that can't be traced.
Also that if he locked the rest of the crew out of the cockpit, then ascend to something like 24,000ft, then depressurise the cabin, all those in the cabin would be dead in something like 15 seconds. He has an oxygen mask on and has brought a parachute aboard. He descends to about 5,000ft, sets the plane to follow a level course at that height, then parachutes out the cabin door, presumably to be picked up by waiting boat. The plane flies on till it runs out of fuel.
It all sounds bloody far fetched to me, but then something far fetched must have happened, and, he says something along these lines has been done at least twice before.
I pass this on for what it's worth. Perhaps nothing.
Don.

Originally Posted by Landover

I spoke to a friend who is a maintenance engineer for a large airline about this. There is a keypad for the crew to access the cockpit but the pilot can deny access to anyone putting in the code. This is so the pilot can control who enters. The crew could be forced to enter the code by terrorists.

If the busses have been pulled or there was a massive systems failure including the electrical power, then the power to the cabin door would have been cut would it not?
.

Originally Posted by Don 130

Also that if he locked the rest of the crew out of the cockpit, then ascend to something like 24,000ft, then depressurise the cabin, all those in the cabin would be dead in something like 15 seconds. He has an oxygen mask on and has brought a parachute aboard. He descends to about 5,000ft, sets the plane to follow a level course at that height, then parachutes out the cabin door, presumably to be picked up by waiting boat. The plane flies on till it runs out of fuel.
It all sounds bloody far fetched to me, but then something far fetched must have happened, and, he says something along these lines has been done at least twice before..

Twice where? In James Bond films perhaps......

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Twice where? In James Bond films perhaps......

He said in one of this two cases they found the money the bloke had accumulated to pull off his disappearance, but not the bloke. I think he bailed out of a 707, the one with a door and stair out the back under the tail.
Don.

It's the 727 with the rear tail door. There was a show on SBS a while back where they crashed one to film what happened in the cabin. A flight crew got it airborne then the copilot jumped. They had a remote control in a chase plane was really basic control, once that was on the remaining pilot legged it down the back and jumped out too - that would be an odd experience!

You couldn't do it on a 777 though, you'd get torn apart by the wind even at minimum speeds

Originally Posted by BigBlackDog

It's the 727 with the rear tail door. There was a show on SBS a while back where they crashed one to film what happened in the cabin. A flight crew got it airborne then the copilot jumped. They had a remote control in a chase plane was really basic control, once that was on the remaining pilot legged it down the back and jumped out too - that would be an odd experience!

You couldn't do it on a 777 though, you'd get torn apart by the wind even at minimum speeds

I have no doubt. I'm not arguing his theory is the right, just reporting it. Like many, I'm also wondering what could have taken place, so I asked the bloke what he thought.
Don