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Malaysia Airlines tragedies

EarlyMon said:
Pseudo science firm makes wild, ridiculous claim, picked up first by CNN early this morning, now spreading.

Actual news - the company wants in the news for all the obvious reasons, finds easy target.
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The people in charge of the search has to wade through a bunch of leads from many different sources and decide which are worth investigating. In an effort to get the news out quickly, they didn't bother to really verify why this lead isn't being investingate. I would think that the search team who has a mandate to find the plane would have a good reason to reject this claim and not spend any resources on a follow-up search.

Stories like this really upset me. The story seems to not be complete when it was first released. The incompleteness of the story is likely to make the families and loved ones of the missing passengers even more upset as it may falsely bring their hopes up only to have them crushed again.
 
They used a method to detect the resonance of atomic nuclei - something that they claim they can do remotely and accurately detect specific atoms even 1000 meters below ground.

And thus found the plane off the coast of India.

Yeah. No.

I'm trying to imagine having to be polite to the public while explaining that the lead wasn't credible.

They might just as well used a bucket of fried chicken and divined the location from the grease stains in the bucket.

And yet - some idiots at CNN just had to call it breaking news. Not to be outdone, others repeated it.
 
EarlyMon said:
They used a method to detect the resonance of atomic nuclei - something that they claim they can do remotely and accurately detect specific atoms even 1000 meters below ground.

And thus found the plane off the coast of India.

Yeah. No.
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Sounds like something I'd read from the Star Trek Technical Manual.
 
Yes, the word 'Hollywood' sparks instant suspicion. But I see what appears to be a new tidbit and I post it... not much else I can do with this mystery.
 
I know this is about a week late, but FIT those of you that have never seen the flight map on a plane (international flights)...this is a flight I just took from ORD (chicago) to FRA (Frankfurt)
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It glitched twice, showing us back in chicago twice lol. Provides basic flight data. Tail wind, airspeed, altitude, miles traveled, airspeed.
 
I imagine that's not based on live GPS data. It's just them plugging how fast the plane is travelling, how long it's been flying, and where along the route it should be based on that.

And even if it was live data, it would be stored on the plane, and is probably sitting ruined at the bottom of the ocean somewhere.
 
cheeers to you Sol for getting to fly Biz Class. I've done ATL to FRA a few times and it isn't too bad. Only an 8 hour flight tops. It just sucks landing in Germany in the AM and then trying to stay up all day to get on the right sleep schedule.

I flew to Melbourne AUS last year. It's my longest flight to date and will probably stay that way. Total travel time was about 40 hours. It did not feel good.
 
EarlyMon said:
I hate ORD more than I can say. Hope you got to fly Lufthansa, Sol.
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No I was on United I like the food better on United than Lufthansa. Though I prefer to fly out of EWR, or even IAH because they use better pods on the plane's out of IAH. I do like the seats on Lufthansa, though.


I don't care for ORD, either. It's never easy going through there
 
Stuntman said:
In the aftermath of this tragedy, some changes in aviation are being made to ensure there is better tracking of airplanes. India is the first to initiate changes.

In wake of Malaysia Airlines MH370 tragedy, India sets new aircraft tracking rules | The Indian Express
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The problem is that their solution seems to be "talk to us every 15 minutes". Better than nothing, if it gives some indication of your position and heading before an incident happens, but I don't think it would have made any difference in this case. Whatever the reason for the radio silence during the final hours of the flight, I doubt it was that just that the crew hadn't been told to make routine calls.
 
so i just landed in Korea a few hours ago from the states.....

on this flight over i couldn't help but be a little more attentive to what was going on around me in the plane. Just in general, when people were moving around or talking i would pay a little closer attention to. It was kind of eerie feeling because i was thinking of what might have went on in that Malaysian flight.
 
Larry King on CNN

"The tough time I would have at CNN now, I think, would be doing this airplane story--because I think I'd crack up laughing." He added, "You know, how many times can you cover a plane? Six weeks and all we know is it made a left turn."
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Priceless:rofl:
 
Hadron said:
The problem is that their solution seems to be "talk to us every 15 minutes". Better than nothing, if it gives some indication of your position and heading before an incident happens, but I don't think it would have made any difference in this case. Whatever the reason for the radio silence during the final hours of the flight, I doubt it was that just that the crew hadn't been told to make routine calls.
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It also depends on how this system is implemented and if the real time communications system can be easily turned off by the pilot. There also has to be some process built around it to take action if a plane missed its scheduled, automated check-in. If Malaysia 370 had such a communications system and it cannot be turned off like the satellite handshake, then at least it wouldn't have taken weeks to find out the plane's last known location.
 
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