Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

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TTmonkey

20,911 posts

247 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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hmmm, how far geographically is this crash from where the Malaysia plane was reported to have 'climbed fast to an altitude that it wasn't supposed to be able to get to'.....?

Anyone think they should perhaps be looking again at the sea bed near where it was first lost from radar contact?

AreOut

3,658 posts

161 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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They are not connected in any way, MH370 never crossed that area.

matrignano

4,361 posts

210 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Is a modern airliner totally unrecoverable from a stall situation?

Tyre Tread

10,534 posts

216 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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" Let's go round again
Maybe we'll turn back the hands of time
Let's go round again
One more time"

Maybe a separate thread for that one?

Le TVR

3,092 posts

251 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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matrignano said:
Is a modern airliner totally unrecoverable from a stall situation?
The question is a lot more complex.
There are different types of stall that can all happen in different parts of the flight envelope. However, there are areas of the flight envelope where recovery becomes more and more difficult.
There is also the question of whether flight simulators correctly perform in all the areas of stalling, especially high altitude stalls.
You get to the top end of the flight envelope and the first task is to identify whether you are dealing with high speed or low speed buffet. You may not get a second guess if you id it wrongly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVt6LiDbLos

Stall techniques on airliners.

KTF

9,804 posts

150 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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TTmonkey said:
hmmm, how far geographically is this crash from where the Malaysia plane was reported to have 'climbed fast to an altitude that it wasn't supposed to be able to get to'.....?

Anyone think they should perhaps be looking again at the sea bed near where it was first lost from radar contact?
The worlds biggest tin foil hat couldn't link the two together because there is no link.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

284 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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KTF said:
The worlds biggest tin foil hat couldn't link the two together because there is no link.
I would put money on the tin foil lovers linking them.

Vipers

32,869 posts

228 months

jshell

11,006 posts

205 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Vipers said:
Would be a good job to get onto! (Emotions aside)

Transmitter Man

4,253 posts

224 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Sorry if this has already been posted.

BBC documentary interviewing spokesman from Cranfield University where they train air crash investigators debunked the Russiam statement that it was bullets from a Ukrainian fighter jet that shot down MH17.

Shows a piece of wreckage with comparison if bullet hole against missile damage. Bullet hole is clean while missile is not - and MH17 shot down by missile.

Phil

Vaud

50,426 posts

155 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Wrong thread... This is the other one... wink

AreOut

3,658 posts

161 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/01/us-malay...

(Reuters) - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cannot go on forever, Australia's deputy prime minister said, and discussions are already under way between Australia, China and Malaysia as to whether to call off the hunt within weeks. (...)

The search of a rugged 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq mile) patch of sea floor some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) west of the Australian city of Perth, which experts believe is the plane's most likely resting place, will likely be finished by May.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told Reuters that a decision would have to be taken well before then as to whether to continue into the vast 1.1 million sq km area around the primary search zone if nothing has been found.

Discussions had already begun about what to do in that event, including the possibility that the search might be called off, said Truss, who is also transport minister.

Steffan

10,362 posts

228 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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AreOut said:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/01/us-malay...

(Reuters) - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cannot go on forever, Australia's deputy prime minister said, and discussions are already under way between Australia, China and Malaysia as to whether to call off the hunt within weeks. (...)

The search of a rugged 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq mile) patch of sea floor some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) west of the Australian city of Perth, which experts believe is the plane's most likely resting place, will likely be finished by May.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told Reuters that a decision would have to be taken well before then as to whether to continue into the vast 1.1 million sq km area around the primary search zone if nothing has been found.

Discussions had already begun about what to do in that event, including the possibility that the search might be called off, said Truss, who is also transport minister.
Curioser and curiouser saud, Alice.

It really does beg the questions as to how a plane of this size can disappear apparently without trace. Are they looking anywhere near the right spot? Why were there apparently definite pings heard by more than one searching vessel? All very odd and I really do wonder what the truth is in this conundrum. We may of course not know for some time.

HTP99

22,531 posts

140 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Wow; it's a year in 6 days.

-crookedtail-

1,562 posts

190 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Steffan said:
AreOut said:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/01/us-malay...

(Reuters) - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cannot go on forever, Australia's deputy prime minister said, and discussions are already under way between Australia, China and Malaysia as to whether to call off the hunt within weeks. (...)

The search of a rugged 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq mile) patch of sea floor some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) west of the Australian city of Perth, which experts believe is the plane's most likely resting place, will likely be finished by May.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told Reuters that a decision would have to be taken well before then as to whether to continue into the vast 1.1 million sq km area around the primary search zone if nothing has been found.

Discussions had already begun about what to do in that event, including the possibility that the search might be called off, said Truss, who is also transport minister.
Curioser and curiouser saud, Alice.

It really does beg the questions as to how a plane of this size can disappear apparently without trace. Are they looking anywhere near the right spot? Why were there apparently definite pings heard by more than one searching vessel? All very odd and I really do wonder what the truth is in this conundrum. We may of course not know for some time.
If at all.

Isn't it a bit soon to start calling off the search?

The wreckage of AF447 took nearly two years to be found, despite there being some floating debris and the area where it went down was more or less known. This must have always been known to be long, tough and slow process in the hostile environment of the Southern Ocean, with no guarantee of success.

Vaud

50,426 posts

155 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Steffan said:
It really does beg the questions as to how a plane of this size can disappear apparently without trace.
Tiny plane, massive ocean that is very, very deep.

Megaflow

9,388 posts

225 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Vaud said:
Steffan said:
It really does beg the questions as to how a plane of this size can disappear apparently without trace.
Tiny plane, massive ocean that is very, very deep.
Yep, the Indian Ocean covers approximately 20%of the earths surface, has an area of 73,556,00km2 and a mean depth of 3,980m.

Assuming the plane is intact, and you draw a box around it's largest dimensions, it has an area of 0.00388km2. Or 0.0000000053%.

That brings a whole new meaning to needle in haystack...

Then factor in the plane will not be in one piece, but almost certainly broken into many, many smaller pieces on impact, the likely hood of finding it is so remote it doesn't compute.

karma mechanic

727 posts

122 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Megaflow said:
Then factor in the plane will not be in one piece, but almost certainly broken into many, many smaller pieces on impact, the likely hood of finding it is so remote it doesn't compute.
You would expect that there would be lots of plastic and honeycomb parts that would float for a long time. Lifejackets in packets, seat cushions and that sort of thing too. And yet after all this time there isn't a single credible report of anything being found at sea or washed up on a beach thousands of miles away. I find that nearly as odd as any of the other tinfoil-hatter explanations.

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

253 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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-crookedtail- said:
If at all.

Isn't it a bit soon to start calling off the search?

The wreckage of AF447 took nearly two years to be found, despite there being some floating debris and the area where it went down was more or less known. This must have always been known to be long, tough and slow process in the hostile environment of the Southern Ocean, with no guarantee of success.
But who pays? 2 years search in a known 'small' area for AF447 could be extrapolated easily to 20 years in the Indian Ocean, maybe 200 years?

Will whatever is learnt be worth whatever it costs? What if after x10 more cost it still isn't found?

jmorgan

36,010 posts

284 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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karma mechanic said:
You would expect that there would be lots of plastic and honeycomb parts that would float for a long time. Lifejackets in packets, seat cushions and that sort of thing too. And yet after all this time there isn't a single credible report of anything being found at sea or washed up on a beach thousands of miles away. I find that nearly as odd as any of the other tinfoil-hatter explanations.
Yeah but no but...

Thing is, for me, I do not know if this is to be expected if the plane is lost in a particular place. The southern oceans are quite nasty as I understand it. So I would expect that I do not know what is the norm. That is to say I could not say "I expect debris to be found". Maybe in the channel off Dover or well used shipping lanes or places where I expect the ocean to wash up on a beach. But even the latter, how long before a beach is found and that beach has a visiter to witness the item?

And that is assuming there are parts that will do this in the place it is and the tides play ball.