Air Malaysia missing.

MH370: CSIRO scientists confident aircraft is north of actual search zone - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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The ABC understands there were no plans to extend the search at this stage despite the CSIRO's latest findings.

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hmm

...lovely...a resurrection just around easter....

A new search, perhaps.

MH370 Search Is Back on—This Time With Robots

I will post this purely for entertainment value. I get the feeling he is trying to sell his book.

Flight MH370 didn’t just "disappear": Historian suggests mystery was first case of remote skyjacking and 'was diverted to prevent delivery of secret cargo to China'

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Originally Posted by bob10

I will post this purely for entertainment value. I get the feeling he is trying to sell his book.

Flight MH370 didn’t just "disappear": Historian suggests mystery was first case of remote skyjacking and 'was diverted to prevent delivery of secret cargo to China'

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As a former commercial pilot, albeit helicopters, I do not usually read rubbish like this. He completely incriminates himself with the following:

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Data shows the strange path taken by the Malaysia Airlines plane as it suddenly jerked from west to east, away from its destination of China on March 8, 2014 - but no one has been able to explain why it took this strange path, or where it lay now.

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I love the bit about the autopilot having the capability to be ‘taken over’. Irrelevant really, because the minute it gives you a ‘what’s it doing now’ moment, any pilot worth his/her salt would resolve the MCP modes, and if it wasn’t doing what was desired, reduce the level of automation or just disconnect it and hand-fly.

So that makes it a totally useless and bypass-able ‘feature’.

This piece reminds me of the quality of sludge self-proclained aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas serves up.....

Slightly different sludge, same sewer....

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Originally Posted by Hugh Jars

any pilot worth his/her salt

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there's your answer. unsalted pilots are out there.
remember that airfrance 447 flight. 3 pilots from FL360 were unable to recognize a stall and correct it.
a recreational pilot/private pilot should of been able to do a better job.

i dont believe into the autopilot hijacking explanation btw. only why it would be possible is if the attacking also disabled the aircon and put everyone to sleep. and thats less likely imho

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but no one has been able to explain why it took this strange path

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:) :)

That is a standard line used by conspiracy theorists all over the world about all sorts of things.

Of course it is usually code for, "I don't understand it, so I claim no-one can explain it."

Sometimes it is code for, "I don't understand that there are such things as coincidences and random events."