Thread: Air Malaysia missing.

Perhaps is something similar to what happens to the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522"]Helios Airways Flight 522 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]?

I am still curious about what that oil drilling platform worker saw, when he reported something burning about the time MH370 was in the vicinity of that oil rig.

Does the auto pilot in a 777 go automatically into a holding pattern, when the pilot fails to respond?

Some how that plane wasn't responding correctly and if the pilots were incapacitated, there may well have been damage to the tail section, leading to the erratic flight pattern and loss of signal from the locator transponder.
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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

I am still curious about what that oil drilling platform worker saw, when he reported something burning about the time MH370 was in the vicinity of that oil rig.

Probably was one of this rig workers who want my eBay stuff.

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Does the auto pilot in a 777 go automatically into a holding pattern, when the pilot fails to respond?
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No it goes where the Flight Management System was programmed or in its basic operation, a "Heading" from Pilot input.

Interestingly, I had an email from my brother, suggesting that it was landed at Putao in Myanmar, and was in the hands of the Kachin Independence army.

I do not agree with him. In my view, it is a suicide, possibly with political motives, by one (or both) of the pilots, barely possibly by a passenger or other crew member.

All the perpetrator would need to do is to switch off the transponder and ACARS, not let the other pilot into the cockpit - the cockpit door is deliberately impossible to open from outside - and depressure the aircraft, while having his oxygen mask on, to disable everyone else on the plane (with everyone in the cabin breathing oxygen, the supply is designed to give enough to allow an emergency descent - if the aircraft did not descend, it would not last long. The pilot who was not in the cockpit would probably remain in the cabin assuming the other pilot was carrying out the standard emergency procedure, until it was too late to do anything about it.

The perpetrator would then set waypoints in the navigation system to take it clear of radar coverage, and presumably out over the Indian Ocean, before removing his oxygen mask. The aircraft would then have crashed when fuel was exhausted.

John

This was very cleverly planned, I cant see why you would go to such measures just to crash a plane into the sea.

FWIW an interesting theory on how it may have avoided Indian, et al radar on the NW track.....


Keith Ledgerwood

if it flew low over land surly someone would have come forward saying they saw a big silver bird flying low

So, I see they now think the cabin pressure was turned off, sending everyone unconscious, while at least the co-pilot wore a mask, switched off the transmitters, set the autopilot, made a final message back and then headed out into the Indian Ocean, possibly going south, where he presumably took off his mask and they all died. Seems unlikely to find any wreckage out there either, as the ocean is very deep.
But why? Very strange. Terrible for the relatives too.