Flight 370

Watched a very interesting show on flight 370 tonight on the Smithsonian Channel.

After reviewing the data, investigators believe the following:

After the last radio communication between air traffic controllers and flight 370, the flight turned 180 degrees off course.  

At about the same time the aircraft disappeared from radar, and the Transponder and Aircraft Communication Addresssing and Reporting System (ACAR) we’re turned off.

Interestingly, even while turned off, the ACAR continued to send pings (a request for service) for over 7 hours after it disappeared from radar, so investigators believe that the flight did not crash into the gulf of Thailand as originally thought. 

This increased the search area from the China Sea to the Indian Ocean and to the South Pacific. 

After the initial 180 turn in direction, the ACAR indicated that the flight made two more turns in the next 90 minutes, taking the plane west, and then south. Those turns suggest that this was a carefully planned event by one of the pilots to avoid detection. 

After this, they have no idea where the plane went. The show ended by saying flight 370 is still one of the greatest mysteries in Aviation history. 

It’s only 13,000 ft under the surface of wide open ocean. It’s almost 2.5 miles down! Didn’t read the whole article yet. 

It's been found

Langewiesche noted that while the co-pilot had nothing but a bright future ahead and no red flags in his past, Zaharie's life raised multiple concerns. After his wife moved out, the captain, who was reported to be "lonely and sad," also "spent a lot of time pacing empty rooms" and obsessed over two young internet models.

Forensic examinations of the pilot's simulator by the FBI also revealed he experimented with a flight profile that roughly matched what's believed to have happened to MH370, and that ended in "fuel exhaustion over the Indian Ocean." New York Magazine reported in 2016 that the simulated flight was conducted less than a month before the plane vanished.

Copied and pasted from the article. This is the key to the whole  deal, imo. The deranged co- pilot theory makes the most sense. Did he act alone or was there accomplices. It doesn’t seem like a 1 man job.

When this happened I was teaching reading to teenagers with emotional disorders. This topic hooked them and I found a lot of great articles and viewpoints. You never know what teenagers might find interesting but this topic really was responsible for a positive academic outcome. I know that thought is sort of random but that group of kids holds a special place in my heart and 370 led to a huge amount of discussion, research, and hypothesis among students who normally don’t take a vested interest.

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Thank you.. that’s better

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5 years... where is BA.. he should have been all over this..

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The Full Report

"The 449-page report concludes that the plane’s sudden turns were not likely the result of a system failure, Bloomberg reports. However, investigators say they are confident the aircraft was deliberately flown off course and into the Indian Ocean. “It is more likely that such maneuvers are due to the systems being manipulated,” wrote the report’s authors. "

"Speaking to reporters today, Kok Soo Chon, chief inspector of the MH370 investigation team, said intervention by a third party couldn’t be ruled out. At the same time, the report says there’s nothing to suggest the aircraft was deliberately evading radar, as suggested by aviation experts who appeared on an Australian news program a few months ago. "

"According to the Straits Times, some families of the 239 people onboard the flight said the investigation offered no new information about the mysterious disappearance, although it did highlight a number of protocol failures on the part of air traffic controllers in Kuala Lumpur, who were said to have acted too slowly in initiating emergency procedures."

So, basically a big nothing sandwich.

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MH370 report says cause of plane's disappearance cannot be determined