Thread: Air Malaysia missing.

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Originally Posted by Hall

Apparently relatives of the Chinese passengers have reported that the phones that where on the flight ring out. This would be nigh on impossible if there was a high speed impact with either the sea or land and if the sea the phones would be very deep under water. Also there is reports that some of the passengers face book or twitter accounts show them as being on line.
Cheers Hall

Now this is bonkers....really makes you wonder what the hell is going on.

If any of the passengers had phone signal at all, surely they'd be smart enough to use the gps in their phone and put an SOS out... I think it's a myth...

What does a phone ringing out prove? Just that its out of range?

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Originally Posted by Orkney 90

However, a successful controlled ditching could leave the entire plane intact, and thus sink intact with little or no trace of its where-abouts.

True, though I would think that if they had the time and control available to make a controlled ditch, they'd also by able to send a mayday.

So there's now talk of the flight turning and heading west, which was picked up by military radar. If this is the case, you would have to wonder why it has taken 5 days from disappearing for the military to divulge this info.

And from the latest Malaysian airlines press release

Malaysia Airlines has become aware of the allegations being made against First Officer, Fariq Ab Hamid which we take very seriously. We are shocked by these allegations.
We have not been able to confirm the validity of the pictures and videos of the alleged incident.

Malaysian MH370 co-pilot entertained teenagers in cabin on earlier flight | World news | The Guardian

Martyn

Wouldn't be the first time pilots had allowed children in the cabin and having an accident. I think this happened with a Russian aircraft.

You have to wonder why in this day and age why airlines are not also tracked automatically by GPS - afterall most phones can be tracked if the system is turned on.

For sure the aircraft had its transponder etc but that mainly responds when interrogated by a radar station where an independent GPS that is recorded centrally somewhere in the world could track aircraft - no an expensive project at all.

If the aircraft did go west that should have been tracked at least initially by air traffic control - they would have followed the transponder track until out of range.

Garry