So what happened to Flight 370
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?sr=fb031114malaysia2p
Peter Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, thinks all this information -- if correct -- ominously suggests that someone purposefully cut off the transponder and steered the plane from its intended investigation.
How does a Boeing 777 become invisible? Authorities 'puzzled' by missing flight How can a massive airplane go missing?
"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Goelz.
If the data cited by the source is correct, the aircraft was flying away from Beijing and on the opposite side of the Malay Peninsula from its scheduled route.
Why would the transponder -- an electrical instrument in commercial airline cockpits that continuously transmits information such as altitude, location, direction and speed -- have gone off?
Goelz, the former NTSB managing director, and others point out the only reason for someone to intentionally turn off the transponder is to conceal the plane's location and direction. Someone with nefarious intentions of taking over an aircraft and steering it to where it wasn't supposed to be -- or perhaps planning on crashing it -- might do just that.
"You have to have a very deliberate process to turn the transponder off," he said. "... There might still be mechanical explanations on what was going on, but those mechanical explanations are narrowing quickly."
Peter Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, thinks all this information -- if correct -- ominously suggests that someone purposefully cut off the transponder and steered the plane from its intended investigation.
How does a Boeing 777 become invisible? Authorities 'puzzled' by missing flight How can a massive airplane go missing?
"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Goelz.
If the data cited by the source is correct, the aircraft was flying away from Beijing and on the opposite side of the Malay Peninsula from its scheduled route.
Why would the transponder -- an electrical instrument in commercial airline cockpits that continuously transmits information such as altitude, location, direction and speed -- have gone off?
Goelz, the former NTSB managing director, and others point out the only reason for someone to intentionally turn off the transponder is to conceal the plane's location and direction. Someone with nefarious intentions of taking over an aircraft and steering it to where it wasn't supposed to be -- or perhaps planning on crashing it -- might do just that.
"You have to have a very deliberate process to turn the transponder off," he said. "... There might still be mechanical explanations on what was going on, but those mechanical explanations are narrowing quickly."
Appears an attempt to utilize the global nuclear event satellite detection network in determination if the Malaysian Flight disappearance had a high altitude (35,000 ft) explosion prior to disappearing off radar, GPS and communications. The space telescopes and atmospheric burst locator's onboard those birds carry a variety of sensors and surveillance filters. That means no stone left unturned in the search.
PS: At the very least it makes for good idea generating stuff for screen writers and novelists.
PS: At the very least it makes for good idea generating stuff for screen writers and novelists.
Whomever the dumbass was who designed all the integrated computers on the 777 actually put a bunch of critical systems on the same level (and connected to parts of the entertainment system.)
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...ft-with-an-android-app-some-conditions-apply/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-could-jets-system-have-been-hacked-1439928
People have warned about this vulnerability for a while..... but as usual, no one took them seriously.
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...ft-with-an-android-app-some-conditions-apply/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-could-jets-system-have-been-hacked-1439928
People have warned about this vulnerability for a while..... but as usual, no one took them seriously.
