Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

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NoddyonNitrous

2,117 posts

232 months

Tuesday 15th May 2018
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El stovey said:
Those are just made up though. We don’t know why the transponder stopped working or why that route was flown.

What probability are you attaching to a pilot committing suicide after flying around loads of countries and wanting the aircraft to never be found?

What probability are you attaching to him trying to reach Australia and something happening which stopped him.

You appear to have ruled out every conceivable technical problem and combinations of events and multiple problems. What probability did you give to them?

It’s just guesswork. You’re attaching probability randomly,

There are loads of accidents that people wouldn’t have worked out without the ‘black box’ and CVR.

Who would have guessed that an Aeroflot A310 would have crashed because someone’s children disengaged the autopilot by accident whilst occupying the pilots seats? What was the probability of that happening?

Kids sitting in pilots seats in flight. 1:100
Kids disengage autopilot by accident 1:100
Nobody realising autopilot disengaged 1:100
Aircraft stalls
Pilots can’t recover.
Aircraft crashes
No radio calls.

Imagine if that was over the ocean and they didn’t find the aircraft. What would they think happened?

There are loads of crashes like this that would never have been guessed correctly by probability. So many different things have to go wrong for there to be a crash.
Or the Costa Concordia's captain showing off to his bint on the bridge and stuffing it up the rocks...

StuVT

79 posts

111 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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^^^^^ Is that the nautical equivalent of smashing the ladies back doors in?

AreOut

3,658 posts

161 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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eharding said:
Just wondering, since you've now been comprehensively handed your @rse by the aviation professionals here,
how so?! I appreciate everyone's knowledge and experience but it's not like I have made any substintially wrong claims.

It's like solving a disappearing car mystery, your knowledge about cars and driving wouldn't help much if it was the driver who made decisions where the car will go.

Ean218

1,965 posts

250 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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AreOut said:
how so?! I appreciate everyone's knowledge and experience but it's not like I have made any substintially wrong claims.
Other than the presumption in your next sentence.....

AreOut said:
It's like solving a disappearing car mystery, your knowledge about cars and driving wouldn't help much if it was the driver who made decisions where the car will go.

JuniorD

8,624 posts

223 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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El stovey said:
AreOut said:
but there is a probability you can attribute to each event, turning off transponder at a handover area? 1:100. Flying along the border? 1:100. Going around Sumatra? 1:100. (I don't claim these are exact numbers but you get the idea)

Now you multiply numbers.
Those are just made up though. We don’t know why the transponder stopped working or why that route was flown.

What probability are you attaching to a pilot committing suicide after flying around loads of countries and wanting the aircraft to never be found?

What probability are you attaching to him trying to reach Australia and something happening which stopped him.

You appear to have ruled out every conceivable technical problem and combinations of events and multiple problems. What probability did you give to them?

It’s just guesswork. You’re attaching probability randomly,

There are loads of accidents that people wouldn’t have worked out without the ‘black box’ and CVR.

Who would have guessed that an Aeroflot A310 would have crashed because someone’s children disengaged the autopilot by accident whilst occupying the pilots seats? What was the probability of that happening?

Kids sitting in pilots seats in flight. 1:100
Kids disengage autopilot by accident 1:100
Nobody realising autopilot disengaged 1:100
Aircraft stalls
Pilots can’t recover.
Aircraft crashes
No radio calls.

Imagine if that was over the ocean and they didn’t find the aircraft. What would they think happened?

There are loads of crashes like this that would never have been guessed correctly by probability. So many different things have to go wrong for there to be a crash.


Juanco20

3,214 posts

193 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Does hypoxia impact everyone the same? Or would some people remain alive longer than others? If so, how much time difference are we talking?

Flumpo

3,743 posts

73 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Juanco20 said:
Does hypoxia impact everyone the same? Or would some people remain alive longer than others? If so, how much time difference are we talking?
A difference in seconds not minutes.

Flumpo

3,743 posts

73 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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I only spotted this topic a few days ago so I haven’t read all of it from the beginning!

However if anyone is interested in mh370 I can highly recommend they read the metabunk mh370 threads. The detail and analysis on there is very thorough and interesting. Might be a bit heavy for some, as pilots discuss things in minute detail, posts of transponder manuals, the satellite data, the full Atsb reports etc.

Seventy

5,500 posts

138 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Flumpo said:
A difference in seconds not minutes.
Helios 522 might convince you otherwise.

Flumpo

3,743 posts

73 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Seventy said:
Flumpo said:
A difference in seconds not minutes.
Helios 522 might convince you otherwise.
How so?

I was under the impression the other person was asking if it effects people differently like say altitude sickness.

Hypoxia as far as I’m aware can be slow or fast depending on how quickly there is a loss of breathable oxeygen. But by the point the air runs out some people won’t last longer than others by minutes. If you can’t breath you can’t breath.

Unless I’m missing something Helios flight slowly lost pressure and breathable air. It happened slowly, but there wouldn’t have been people who remained conscience or alive minutes after others had died.

The sure stewardess has a portable breathing kit so was able to survive longer than the others.

So if I’ve missed the point of the question I would still say once hypoxia has actually set in some people would not be alive minutes after others. Most would be knocked out around the same time.

If I’m wrong happy to know why, I’m not a doctor but that was my understanding!

slartibartfast

4,014 posts

201 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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Flumpo said:
I only spotted this topic a few days ago so I haven’t read all of it from the beginning!

However if anyone is interested in mh370 I can highly recommend they read the metabunk mh370 threads. The detail and analysis on there is very thorough and interesting. Might be a bit heavy for some, as pilots discuss things in minute detail, posts of transponder manuals, the satellite data, the full Atsb reports etc.
I'm just going to the shop for a large roll of tinfoil,

Flumpo

3,743 posts

73 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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slartibartfast said:
Flumpo said:
I only spotted this topic a few days ago so I haven’t read all of it from the beginning!

However if anyone is interested in mh370 I can highly recommend they read the metabunk mh370 threads. The detail and analysis on there is very thorough and interesting. Might be a bit heavy for some, as pilots discuss things in minute detail, posts of transponder manuals, the satellite data, the full Atsb reports etc.
I'm just going to the shop for a large roll of tinfoil,
Erm why? Have you got a turkey to cook?

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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What can they discuss in detail after they turned the transponder off. Even experts can not discuss details as the details are not exactly plentiful, the engine sat data, and some washed up bits.

Flumpo

3,743 posts

73 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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Thesprucegoose said:
What can they discuss in detail after they turned the transponder off. Even experts can not discuss details as the details are not exactly plentiful, the engine sat data, and some washed up bits.
Ok doesn’t matter. I was just saying if people were interested then they might enjoy that website.

Strange place at times this Pistonheads forum.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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Flumpo said:
Ok doesn’t matter. I was just saying if people were interested then they might enjoy that website.

Strange place at times this Pistonheads forum.
They can discuss theories but actual details are thin on the ground, that is why every armchair pundit has something to say.

Flumpo

3,743 posts

73 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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Thesprucegoose said:
Flumpo said:
Ok doesn’t matter. I was just saying if people were interested then they might enjoy that website.

Strange place at times this Pistonheads forum.
They can discuss theories but actual details are thin on the ground, that is why every armchair pundit has something to say.
Agreed, which is why the idea of the website is to ‘debunk’ armchair experts theories based on fact, evidence and what we do know.

A lot of the armchair experts have these crazy ideas because they don’t understand the basics of how planes, technology or science works.

There is also a lot more information known than what’s printed in the headline grabbing red tops, which people base their crazy theories on.


Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

279 months

Saturday 19th May 2018
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Halmyre said:
If it went down in the Indian Ocean, finding it would be like finding a grain of rice buried under a football pitch.
If it were that easy they would have found it months ago.

Rice: football pitch is about 1 in 8 million
B777: Indian Ocean is about 1 in 10 billion



Halmyre

11,193 posts

139 months

Sunday 20th May 2018
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Ayahuasca said:
Halmyre said:
If it went down in the Indian Ocean, finding it would be like finding a grain of rice buried under a football pitch.
If it were that easy they would have found it months ago.

Rice: football pitch is about 1 in 8 million
B777: Indian Ocean is about 1 in 10 billion

Yes, I was only considering the area, not the volume, and I was being generous in my estimate (arborio, not basmati...).

Even at 8 million to one, those are bad odds.

AreOut

3,658 posts

161 months

Monday 21st May 2018
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the plane is lying on a seabed somewhere along the 7th arc so it improves the odds significantly, and they have already searched ~15-20% of theoretically possible area where it crashed, at the cost of around $200M

Vipers

32,880 posts

228 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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Flumpo said:
Seventy said:
Flumpo said:
A difference in seconds not minutes.
Helios 522 might convince you otherwise.
How so?

I was under the impression the other person was asking if it effects people differently like say altitude sickness.

Hypoxia as far as I’m aware can be slow or fast depending on how quickly there is a loss of breathable oxeygen. But by the point the air runs out some people won’t last longer than others by minutes. If you can’t breath you can’t breath.

Unless I’m missing something Helios flight slowly lost pressure and breathable air. It happened slowly, but there wouldn’t have been people who remained conscience or alive minutes after others had died.

The sure stewardess has a portable breathing kit so was able to survive longer than the others.

So if I’ve missed the point of the question I would still say once hypoxia has actually set in some people would not be alive minutes after others. Most would be knocked out around the same time.

If I’m wrong happy to know why, I’m not a doctor but that was my understanding!
Before someone jumps in, you can be hypoxic unconscious but alive. Much below 160 mbs you loose consciousness, and can be resuscitated with an adequate oxygen supply.

But generally speaking agree with your comments.