On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:54:11 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:39:43 -0400, "Robert Green"

wrote:



wrote in message news:95b02554-320f-4775-ae05-



In the case of the ADS-B,

you have the plane making a final small turn to the right, just

like other flights on other days, then the data stops.



Another mark in the wing failure category. When you bank, it shifts the

load on the wing/fuselage connections and that's a very likely point of

failure. Was it the right wing tip that had been previously damaged? I

think so.



The MAF is now saying they tracked the plane for over an hour after it

turned around. If they had a decompression I would expect them to

quickly dive to 6000-8000 feet so they had enough air to survive.



They are starting to suggest it may have been a hijacking by the

flight crew.



They have moved the search to the Straight of Malacca and I suppose

the Indian Ocean.

Anything is possible, but one thing we don't know is what exactly
the MAF is basing all this new theory on. Do they have consistent
hits, enough that they are highly confident it's this plane? Or
do they just have some intermittent contact with something that
might be some other small plane, etc. And if they have any decent
supporting evidence, why did it take 2 - 3 days before they started
to come up with this? The radar data is available and you'd think
within hours of the crash it would have been analyzed. If they have
hits from the area at the time the plane disappeared, a somewhat
consistent hit trail back over Malaysia, etc, then you'd think we
would have heard about it in hours. Seems more likely they have
some hits of something, we don't know how many, where, when, etc.
Just like the floating debris, oil, that have so far turned out
to be wrong, could be nothing.

As I said in another reply, post 911 one simple change that could
have been made would be to make it impossible to turn off the
radar transponders, the ADS-B, etc once a plane is in the air.
I can't think of any reason you would need to turn it off. That
would have gone a long way to resolving this.