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OT - Pennies on the rail tracks.
bob haller posted for all of us...
And I know how to SNIP On Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:21:49 AM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote: On 3/26/2014 8:19 PM, nestork wrote: When I was a kid, me and my friends would put coins on the railway tracks and let the trains run over them. I learned that nickel was much harder than copper. Now, pennies are zinc. I'm not sure how zinc rates, on hardness. Harder than copper, I'd guess. -- . Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus www.lds.org . zinc is farly hard, melts a way lower temperature and corrodes easily. te copper plating may help money last longer Not in my wallet... -- Tekkie |
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OT - Pennies on the rail tracks.
RobertMacy wrote:
Although handy to walk along the tracks, I quickly learned to walk along the OUTSIDE of the tracks! as in yeccchhh!!! If you look at the typical power unit (locomotive), theres the long hood where the diesel-electric generator and resistor bank for dynamic braking live, and the short hood in front of the cab. The short hood contains two things; a major connection panel for the control circuitry and the crapper. They may be better now, but the latter used to be a straight drop. It wasn't a real pleasant place to have to work. In fact, being an electrician working on old power units wasn't too pleasant in general. Changing traction motors was a real ball. |
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Flight MH370 disaster - new theory (asphyxia - air problems)
On Thursday, March 27, 2014 7:51:11 PM UTC-4, Robert Green wrote:
"trader_4" wrote in message news:19ce2cf9-1e57-471e-addb- stuff snipped The crazy thing here is that if the ocean is chock full of garbage, they can't even find that. For about a week now it's been a satellite or plane spots some big object, but later when someone finally gets there or the plane returns, they can't find it again. I haven't heard about them finding a single thing in the search area that they thought could have been from the plane, but isn't. It's just that they can't find anything and poor weather isn't helping. The original search area was equal to the size of the US. Now it's only 3 times the size of France. People just don't realize the incredible amount of area that has to be searched, often just by bored people with binoculars looking through the glare of an airplane cabin window. A lot of the surrounding detritus that marks the typical ocean crash site was dispersed by winds and waves for almost a week before they got the area right. This wreckage might not ever get found because there's so much unrelated junk in the water and because the Indian Ocean is so remote. The planes spend most of their time and fuel getting to the search area and then have to turn back after a few hours. -- Bobby G. And if you think this search area uncertainty, conditions, etc to locate even one piece of debris is tough, what does that say about what comes next, ie finding where the plane actually went down is? With 2+ weeks having gone by, the uncertainty is going to lead to another large possible area. One that can't be searched by airplanes going 200 mph. It took 2 years in the AirFrance case and that was with a much better idea of where the plane went in. I don't hold out any hope of the pingers doing any good. Even if they are working and last 2 months instead of one, they just aren't going to be able to cover much of the possible area, and they haven't even figured out where the possible area is. One possibility would be that they could get luck and backtrack from the debris field, if they find it, using sat pics going back in time. If you found the debris today, you know the currents, wind, etc and would know where to look in all the sat pics going back to the day it crashed. Even if they only find pics of where that same debris field was a week ago, it would narrow down the possibilities of where to search. But then it's going to still be a huge area and those remote control drones only go so fast, it could take many years. A related question, who is going to pay for it? In the case of AF, the French paid for it, heard numbers like $50mil. In this case, since the Malaysians are in charge of it, what's the chance they will pony up for what it takes, versus just calling it quits after a few months? And if that happens, then what? I doubt Boeing or anyone else will pay for it. On the issue of the pingers, one wonders why they are limited to just a month? They have shown them on TV and they are just small gizmos. I don't see why by now they don't have ones that last many months. Also, they've said they emmit a ping every second. Wonder who came up with that and what it's based on. You would think that if it emitted a ping say once every 5 secs, a sub, drone, whatever would still be likely to detect it and then even with the current size, batteries, etc it would last 5 months, instead of one. Seems to me I'd rather have on ping every 5 secs for 5 months instead of what we have now. |
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Flight MH370 disaster - Some thoughts about telemetry, hijacking
"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
"Robert Green" wrote: some sort of standard that indicates that they don't put out a real anything that happens to float past and looks like a couple extra minutes are filled. By all means, let's have the government license them and publish journalistic standards . . . no, wait, that's not such a good idea afterall. Gee, it was really nice of you to succinctly make my point about taking whatever floats by and mangling it until it fits what you want it to. Never was there any mention of government intrusion (especially from me of all people). I just cut to the chase for you. In the final analysis, externally imposed standards are the only ones that are effective. The desire to see journalists act "professionally" means that there's a) a standard defined and b) there's a way to enforce or cause journalists to adhere to that standard. That's how we insure professional behavior from doctors, lawyers and even massage therapists. The competitive pressure of a free market dissolves away those standards in the face of the reality that day old news has no value. So, to get the "scoop" news organization now are willing to pay for interviews and accept statements from interviewees without attempting to vet them in any way. There used to be internal standards that you had to meet that were imposed by your bosses, their bosses, or just plain old peer pressure to get it right instead of merely filling up time with whatever weirdness happens to pass by or calls looking for air time. I'm not sure there ever were the "standards" you're talking about. The kind of speculation you're talking about has always been with us, and it typically gets worse when there aren't any "real" facts to be had, as in the MH370 case. Read the new archives about Amelia Earhart. Different time but same sort of speculative coverage in the absence of verifiable facts. It's important to remember this isn't a "top down" process. Now, more than ever, news organizations have a very good grasp on what their readers want to read - you see it with almost every news site's "most emailed" or "most read" feature. Newspapers before the internet very rarely knew what stories people read or passed on. Now they know with excruciating detail what interests people and what they want more of. You're just mad because it's not representative of what you want more of. (-: There used to be rotary phones, men used to wear hats and there was a time when the web wasn't even a dream. Internal standards are still practiced by some, but not many, news organizations. They're the ones that have enough revenue to be able to afford that luxury. Not many can anymore. Look at all the supposition that came about after the Challenger disaster, the OK city bombing, etc. When people have incomplete information on a newsworthy subject they resort to "what if" scenarios. Pretty much makes my point. I have no problem with people doing that, but journalists should not just pass along the latest rumor. Oh yeah, think of the competitive advantage of saying nothing when your competitors provide stuff that people are interested in reading, even if it's supposition in the absence of hard facts (he says, sarcastically). Since I first read this post I've been reading MH370 stories with an eye to whether news organizations make it clear that what they are reporting are not necessarily facts, but the best "guesses" we have available from the people in a position to know something about the situation. That's why I give reports like Chris Goodfellow's (that there was a fire) much greater creedence than some turkey in the Malaysian government. Goodfellow's a pilot who's "been there, done that" whereas a defense minister hasn't and worse, yet, probably has some pretty good reasons *not* to tell the whole truth. In most cases, they properly indicate that it's conjecture and not fact. I think a greater problem is how many news sites co-mingle opinion with reporting and deliberately "mark up" the former so it looks like the latter. Sometimes, although I have noticed that CNN tends to get somewhat inconsistent on that, especially after the first iteration. I'd have to agree with the other part, and it is indicative of how the mighty have fallen. There's still a long, long way to go before we hit bottom, but we're getting there. In an age where Bill O'Reilly considers Darryl Hannah an "expert" on solar energy and Katie Couric gives ex-Playmate Jenny McCarthy a forum for her anti-vaccination views, anything goes. You are indeed Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. The Golden Age of journalism has come and gone. And that is the direct result of the journalists themselves. And I have mentioned earlier and numerous times, that don't make it right... No, it's not the journalists, it's the competitive pressures forced on them by external forces. It's a number of those, too. It's businessmen who have bought up newspapers, saddled them with debt and then bled them dry and left them to rot on the vine. It's the Internet, too, providing stiff competition for advertising and lowering the bar spreading rumors. Other factors have played a large role in the dissolution of large media organizations, too, but if you look at any of the major newspapers, the path to extinction has been a pretty standard one for all of them. As they all cut back on editorial staff, the product suffers. The right questions (is this news source credible?) don't get asked and the beat goes on. But that is acknowledged as out of the box and not some actual occurrance UNTIL the actual facts back it up. I get a chuckle out of the next line fixing a cause and then bending facts. Isn't that exactly what you are doing with the supposition that it the thing was hijacked and then either flown into the sea or landed somewhere? But I am not a news organization or even a journalist. I am allowed to posit possibilities. (-: How Jenney-esque of you (grin)\ http://www.google.com/search?q=jenney You'll have to be more specific. I'm sorry, I don't get the reference and Google didn't help either. -- Bobby G. |
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Flight MH370 disaster - Some thoughts about telemetry, hijacking
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 6:59:41 AM UTC-4, Robert Green wrote:
"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message "Robert Green" wrote: some sort of standard that indicates that they don't put out a real anything that happens to float past and looks like a couple extra minutes are filled. By all means, let's have the government license them and publish journalistic standards . . . no, wait, that's not such a good idea afterall. Gee, it was really nice of you to succinctly make my point about taking whatever floats by and mangling it until it fits what you want it to. Never was there any mention of government intrusion (especially from me of all people). I just cut to the chase for you. In the final analysis, externally imposed standards are the only ones that are effective. The desire to see journalists act "professionally" means that there's a) a standard defined and b) there's a way to enforce or cause journalists to adhere to that standard. That's how we insure professional behavior from doctors, lawyers and even massage therapists. The competitive pressure of a free market dissolves away those standards in the face of the reality that day old news has no value. So, to get the "scoop" news organization now are willing to pay for interviews and accept statements from interviewees without attempting to vet them in any way. There used to be internal standards that you had to meet that were imposed by your bosses, their bosses, or just plain old peer pressure to get it right instead of merely filling up time with whatever weirdness happens to pass by or calls looking for air time. I'm not sure there ever were the "standards" you're talking about. The kind of speculation you're talking about has always been with us, and it typically gets worse when there aren't any "real" facts to be had, as in the MH370 case. Read the new archives about Amelia Earhart. Different time but same sort of speculative coverage in the absence of verifiable facts. It's important to remember this isn't a "top down" process. Now, more than ever, news organizations have a very good grasp on what their readers want to read - you see it with almost every news site's "most emailed" or "most read" feature. Newspapers before the internet very rarely knew what stories people read or passed on. Now they know with excruciating detail what interests people and what they want more of. You're just mad because it's not representative of what you want more of. (-: There used to be rotary phones, men used to wear hats and there was a time when the web wasn't even a dream. Internal standards are still practiced by some, but not many, news organizations. They're the ones that have enough revenue to be able to afford that luxury. Not many can anymore. Look at all the supposition that came about after the Challenger disaster, the OK city bombing, etc. When people have incomplete information on a newsworthy subject they resort to "what if" scenarios. Pretty much makes my point. I have no problem with people doing that, but journalists should not just pass along the latest rumor. Oh yeah, think of the competitive advantage of saying nothing when your competitors provide stuff that people are interested in reading, even if it's supposition in the absence of hard facts (he says, sarcastically). I agree with your general argument here. It's kind of a paradox in a way. I think the media has given this story far more attention than it deserves. CNN in particular. Some almost insignificant thing comes out like someone says a week into this that the plane made a "sharp turn to the left" when it first went off course, and they blow it into major breaking news. Then they finally admit that it's unclear if that means that it was a sudden, extreme bank turn, or just that it was a sharp change from it's original course. We knew the latter from day one, and even if was a steep bank turn, it's hardly major knews. Yet they had pilots demonstrating both in a flight simulator and they talked about if for hours. I especially enjoyed that British buffoon they have in Australia, who's their aviation expert. About a week ago, when the Australian Prime Minister made an announcement while he was before pariament, he was so excited he must have wet his pants. He was saying that for anyone who understands Australian politics, there has to be major significance, that they've really found something that they know must be from the plane, or the PM wouldn't be saying that. Well, now as I suspected at the time, he was full of BS. It's just the PM should have known better to talk about finding something while he was before Parliament because it would be misinterpreted by buffoons like the CNN clown. The paradox is that if you're interested in the latest on any of this, even I put on CNN to watch for 20 mins to see what's going on, because they've been covering it pretty much 24/7. You just have to be able to filter the BS from the facts, and sadly a lot of people can't do that. Since I first read this post I've been reading MH370 stories with an eye to whether news organizations make it clear that what they are reporting are not necessarily facts, but the best "guesses" we have available from the people in a position to know something about the situation. That's why I give reports like Chris Goodfellow's (that there was a fire) much greater creedence than some turkey in the Malaysian government. Goodfellow's a pilot who's "been there, done that" whereas a defense minister hasn't and worse, yet, probably has some pretty good reasons *not* to tell the whole truth. The problem with Goodfellow's fire theory is that it doesn't conform at all to most of the facts we have. I don't just take someone's conclusion because they are a pilot. We'll get to his pilot credentials later, but there are more commercial pilots in fact who are saying they too believe deliberate criminal human action was the likely cause. I've asked you these points before and I'll ask them again regarding what Goodfellow is claiming: "When I saw that left turn with a direct heading, I instinctively knew he was heading for an airport. He was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi, a 13,000-foot airstrip with an approach over water and no obstacles. The captain did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000-foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier toward Langkawi, which also was closer." When they made that left turn, the airport at Kota Bahru, with an 8000ft runway, perectly capable of landing a 777, was about 140 miles away. It's right on the coast. Yet they chose to fly a burning plane 175 miles farther, all the way across Malaysia to the other coast? He just picks that Palau Langkawi airport because it happens to be near where the plane went by, on the other side of Malaysia. Oh, and note that the plane didn't land there, or pass close to it, instead it made a precise zig-zag to waypoints that left in perfectly aligned with the flight path to India/Middle East at 29,500 ft. It was on radar contact hundreds of miles past the airport he claims it was going to land at. "When I heard this I immediately brought up Google Earth and searched for airports in proximity to the track toward the southwest." The question isn't to find airports 350 miles away from where the fire was detected that just happen to be along whatever flightpath it took. The question is where is the closest airport that can land the plane. That's Kota Bahru, about 150 miles. They could have landed there in 25 mins. "What I think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued on the heading, probably on George (autopilot), until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. You will find it along that route-looking elsewhere is pointless." If it was on autopilot, then either it would maintain it's current heading and speed indefinitely or it would be following waypoints. We know it wasn't just on one heading, it made that precise zig-zag over the Straits, *after* it had passed the closest point it ever got to the airport he claims it was trying to land at. That left it aligned with the flight paths to India/ME. And unless Inmarsat is full of baloney, it made at least one major heading change again to get to the South Indian Ocean. So again, that is consistent with someone either flying it at the controls or else having entered those waypoints in the autopilot. How are either of those consistent with his fire theory? "There was a well known accident in Nigeria of a DC8 that had a landing gear fire on takeoff. Once going, a tire fire would produce horrific, incapacitating smoke." Tires are instrumented to flag pressure out of range, the brakes are instrumented to measure temperature, etc. It's hard to conceive that a properly inflated tire is going to catch fire or that even if it does, that they are not going to start seeing alarms go off indicating brakes over temp, tire deflating, etc. Along with this theory, I've heard "experts" claiming that the 777 was fully loaded with fuel, heavy on takeoff, etc. That is pure BS, it had less than half it's max fuel and was nowhere near max takeoff weight. But it feeds the "hot tire" theory, so let's just throw that BS in. The plane is also outfitted with smoke/fire detection systems, halon fire systems to put out fires. The probability of a smoldering tire going unnoticed for 40 mins and then the first indication of that isn't a fire alarm, it's the sudden loss of transponders, all electrical systems, no mayday, whatever is about .000001% And the probability of said fire just happening to occur within a couple mins of being handed off from Malaysian ATC and never contacting Vietnam ATC, ie exactly at the poing where it's ideal to deliberatly make the plane disappear is about .0000000001%. "Yes, pilots have access to oxygen masks, but this is a no-no with fire." Says who? He's the first one I've heard ever say anything like that. Unless the cockpit itself is on fire, it's hard to imagine that the tiny amount of oxygen in those masks is going to make a difference to the alleged flaming tire. But, better to go unconscious I guess. And who exactly is this Chris Goodfellow? "Chris Goodfellow has 20 years experience as a Canadian Class-1 instrumented-rated pilot for multi-engine planes. " From that it appears that he is just a private pilot with a multi-engine IFR rating. Is he even jet rated? A commercial pilot? It's very possible that all he's flown is a small twin engine plane and he's never flown a commercial airliner. |
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Flight MH370 disaster - Some thoughts about telemetry, hijacking
"trader_4" wrote in message
news:81baa3d6-c7c4-4e1e-964a- I agree with your general argument here. It's kind of a paradox in a way. I think the media has given this story far more attention than it deserves. CNN in particular. Some almost insignificant thing comes out like someone says a week into this that the plane made a "sharp turn to the left" when it first went off course, and they blow it into major breaking news. Then they finally admit that it's unclear if that means that it was a sudden, extreme bank turn, or just that it was a sharp change from it's original course. We knew the latter from day one, and even if was a steep bank turn, it's hardly major knews. Yet they had pilots demonstrating both in a flight simulator and they talked about if for hours. Editors love it when they can cover a story cheaply from afar by assembling talking heads and doing "gee whiz" stuff like showing people what a trainer does. Hopefully they're not giving would-be hijackers quick flying lessons or ideas. You've just illustrated why I am so suspicious of anything other than actual radar images, recorded transmission, passenger logs and the few other things like cargo manifests that aren't subject to "reinterpretation." I thought it was clear from the beginning that the MGov was concealing information, probably to keep their terrible air defense practices a secret. A contact that big that wasn't scheduled should have been investigated by jets. The MGov failed to do so many important things that I am now hard over in DIS-believing anything they say. I simply assume there's an ass-cover going on somewhere. I especially enjoyed that British buffoon they have in Australia, who's their aviation expert. About a week ago, when the Australian Prime Minister made an announcement while he was before pariament, he was so excited he must have wet his pants. He was saying that for anyone who understands Australian politics, there has to be major significance, that they've really found something that they know must be from the plane, or the PM wouldn't be saying that. Well, now as I suspected at the time, he was full of BS. It's just the PM should have known better to talk about finding something while he was before Parliament because it would be misinterpreted by buffoons like the CNN clown. You'll find that getting intelligent people to serve as talking heads, especially ones affiliated with professional organizations or companies is very difficult. There are always buffoons looking for their moment in the sun and many, many times the outcomes are laughable. I've seen Fox, PBS, ABC, CNN and more get skewered by the "expert" that really wasn't. Redskins owner Dan Snyder got foxed by someone claiming to be an Indian chief who was telling reporters he didn't find the team name offensive. Turns out he wasn't a real chief - that was just his nickname. Real expert witnesses get a *lot* of $ for their services in court. AFAIK, most news orgs don't pay for the occasional expert and they get what they pay for. (-: The paradox is that if you're interested in the latest on any of this, even I put on CNN to watch for 20 mins to see what's going on, because they've been covering it pretty much 24/7. You just have to be able to filter the BS from the facts, and sadly a lot of people can't do that. I check Google News under the "Malaysia airline" topic heading every day and the coverage really waxes and wanes. Some days, nothing, other days, reams of stuff. It's almost always triggered by some new discovery that turns out to be nothing. Enough people are reading the stories to make the "most emailed list" and that generates even MORE coverage and the cycle feeds on itself. People generally read/watch the news not so much to learn new things, but to reinforce whatever ideas they currently hold. If they hate Joe Schmoe, the first story they will pick to read in a newspaper will be anything that mentions Joe Schmoe in a negative light. Confirmation bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias We're both doing it now. You're selecting information which favors the hijack theory and I am selecting information that confirms to the fire theory. It's no surprise we're at an impasse. There's nothing that can be proved further without the wreckage and the cockpit recorders. If the wreck is deep enough, there might be bodies that reveal smoke inhalation, explosion damage, asphyxia and more. There might be enough of the cabin to be salvageable and that could tell us very quickly if there was a fire. Nothing short of that can. Even worse for the hijack theory is that the crucial moments when the plane turned are very likely to be written over *unless* a fire interrupted power to those devices as well. We're basically arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of pin. It's all blue sky hypothecation so we get to choose which theory we like the best. Since I first read this post I've been reading MH370 stories with an eye to whether news organizations make it clear that what they are reporting are not necessarily facts, but the best "guesses" we have available from the people in a position to know something about the situation. That's why I give reports like Chris Goodfellow's (that there was a fire) much greater credence than some turkey in the Malaysian government. Goodfellow's a pilot who's "been there, done that" whereas a defense minister hasn't and worse, yet, probably has some pretty good reasons *not* to tell the whole truth. The problem with Goodfellow's fire theory is that it doesn't conform at all to most of the facts we have. I contend we don't have many *real* facts but a lot of theories and suppositions masquerading as facts. I don't just take someone's conclusion because they are a pilot. We'll get to his pilot credentials later, but there are more commercial pilots in fact who are saying they too believe deliberate criminal human action was the likely cause. If I have to choose between a Malaysian Defense Minister's opinion about what happened v. a guy who's actually flown a plane, I'm going with the latter. Especially since the MDM has backtracked on so many things. That's my courtroom background. I consider him impeached and his testimony to be worthless. That makes it easy for me to dismiss any facts he proffers. Our difference lies in your willingness to accept some of his statements as factual, and they well may be. For me, he's in the realm of "if you say it, something ELSE has to back your claims." I've asked you these points before and I'll ask them again regarding what Goodfellow is claiming: "When I saw that left turn with a direct heading, I instinctively knew he was heading for an airport. He was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi, a 13,000-foot airstrip with an approach over water and no obstacles. The captain did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000-foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier toward Langkawi, which also was closer." When they made that left turn, the airport at Kota Bahru, with an 8000ft runway, perectly capable of landing a 777, was about 140 miles away. It's right on the coast. Yet they chose to fly a burning plane 175 miles farther, all the way across Malaysia to the other coast? He just picks that Palau Langkawi airport because it happens to be near where the plane went by, on the other side of Malaysia. I think it was all over very quickly in that plane. That's especially if, as the EgyptAir fire suggests, they had an oxygen fed fire, perhaps started by the lithium battery cargo. It might have been an explosion in the cargo hold or it could have been an electrical fire. It wasn't until the Valuejet cockpit recorder was recovered that they could read the distinctive signs of an on-board explosion (a "bup" on the CVR and a sharp rise in internal air pressure). We don't have any of that information but we do know an oxygen-fed fire can destroy a cabin within 17 seconds. My theory, which explains even your facts, is that the plane caught fire, the pilots tried to pull busses to kill the fire and to get it to safety but it was all over (for them, not the plane) in seconds. Once the on-board fire suppression system kicked, the people were already dead, and the plane stabilized and flew on auto-pilot until it ran out of gas and crashed. Oh, and note that the plane didn't land there, or pass close to it, instead it made a precise zig-zag to waypoints that left in perfectly aligned with the flight path to India/Middle East at 29,500 ft. It was on radar contact hundreds of miles This is all based on data from the Malaysian government, isn't it? Ptui! It's not worth anything because they've not been straight with the public on so many things. If that's what happened, who can say whether the auto-pilot did it? Didn't we see the same segment on CNN that explains how the AP would "fill in" way points if nothing was entered in time? The pilots could have mis-entered course data as the cabin filled with smoke or they behaved erratically as the oxygen ran out. Somewhere on YouTube there must be videos of people passing out from anoxia. They get *very* punchy before they pass out. Maybe you can point me to way-point and radar data I find credible, but my last recollection was that the MGov recanted their claims about way points and the times of radio and transponder transmissions. The MGov got enough stuff wrong enough times to be deemed very untrustworthy. The Inmarsat Doppler analysis, however, I find much more credible but I am not aware that it could discriminate motion finely enough to determine if the plane was "hitting standard waypoints." So my position is that the way point data is inconclusive at best. If someone *was* at the controls, why did it eventually just fly in a straight line into the middle of the Indian Ocean? That's big damn hole in the human intervention theory. Those recorders are going to stop pinging soon - they're running out of time to find them. If they don't get them soon, it could easily take more than the two years it took to find AirFrance's BB's. At least they knew where that plane went down. -- Bobby G. |
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OT - Pennies on the rail tracks.
rbowman posted for all of us...
And I know how to SNIP the crapper may be better now, but the latter used to be a straight drop. We should get Al Gores lazer sharp focus on the waste here. Whatever happened to the "Sanitized for YOUR protection" labels for terlet seats? -- Tekkie |
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Flight MH370 disaster - Some thoughts about telemetry, hijacking
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 4:19:56 PM UTC-4, Robert Green wrote:
We're both doing it now. You're selecting information which favors the hijack theory and I am selecting information that confirms to the fire theory. I don't believe I'm selecting data. I'm using the data that's out there, that has remained pretty much unchanged for the last 10 days or so. It all fits with either the pilots or a knowledgable hijacker being in control of the airplane. Pilot being the more likely of those, I'd say. It's you who's ignoring very key and established pieces of information that don't fit with the fire theory. Examples: They did not head to the nearest airport, Kota Bahru, which was just 25 mins away. Instead the plane flies across Malaysia to the Straits, does a zig-zag there and winds up on a heading consistent with the air routes of that area to India/Mid East. The biggest "hole" I've heard in the nut pilot theory is that the plane didn't just crash in a sudden dive on it's usual flight path, but instead went off to the middle of nowhere. That can be accounted for by the fact that if you're nuts enough to commit suicide and take 240 people with you, then who knows what reasoning that person would have. Maybe they wanted it to remain a Amelia Earhart mystery to be talked about for 100 years. That's perfectly plausible in ny world. It's no surprise we're at an impasse. There's nothing that can be proved further without the wreckage and the cockpit recorders. I disagree. We know very little about the dynamics in the pilots lives. There are reports that Shah's family moved out of his house just the day before. Another interview with someone who is supposed to know him, says that in the days before the flight he thought he was unfit to fly. There is another report out that he was related to the former deputy PM that was just convicted/sentenced hours before the flight. IDK where all that will bottom out, but the point is we don't know much about any of that at this point. Same thing with the two mysterious Iranians. Soon as it looked like they were using stolen passports to get into Europe, everyone just lost interest, like they are just some Mexicans crossing the border into the USA. Have you heard anything from any of their friends, families, who the hell they and that guy Ali who disappeared are? That could lead somewhere. There are lots of avenues that could still provide useful information. Just because they were not in anyone's terrorist database doesn't mean they couldn't be that. If the wreck is deep enough, there might be bodies that reveal smoke inhalation, explosion damage, asphyxia and more. There might be enough of the cabin to be salvageable and that could tell us very quickly if there was a fire. Nothing short of that can. Even worse for the hijack theory is that the crucial moments when the plane turned are very likely to be written over *unless* a fire interrupted power to those devices as well. True for the CVR, the FDR will have data for the entire flight. I'm still waiting for an explanation of how the fire theory fits with the behavior we already know the plane took. It made many turns, obviously flying in a controlled fashion, not a damaged, uncontrollable plane, an hour and a half after the alleged fire and then flew apparently perfectly fine to Australia. We're basically arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of pin. It's all blue sky hypothecation so we get to choose which theory we like the best. No, it's that I can fit a nut pilot or a hijact to the data that's available. The fire theory, almost nothing fits. Since I first read this post I've been reading MH370 stories with an eye to whether news organizations make it clear that what they are reporting are not necessarily facts, but the best "guesses" we have available from the people in a position to know something about the situation. That's why I give reports like Chris Goodfellow's (that there was a fire) much greater credence than some turkey in the Malaysian government. Goodfellow's a pilot who's "been there, done that" whereas a defense minister hasn't and worse, yet, probably has some pretty good reasons *not* to tell the whole truth. The problem with Goodfellow's fire theory is that it doesn't conform at all to most of the facts we have. I contend we don't have many *real* facts but a lot of theories and suppositions masquerading as facts. If you're going to discard the basic facts, eg, that if made a left turn, flew at various altitudes, wound up aligned perfectly with the flight paths to India over the Straits, etc, then what's better? Just make up stuff and chuck out what's out there and call it a fire? Good grief. I don't just take someone's conclusion because they are a pilot. We'll get to his pilot credentials later, but there are more commercial pilots in fact who are saying they too believe deliberate criminal human action was the likely cause. If I have to choose between a Malaysian Defense Minister's opinion about what happened v. a guy who's actually flown a plane, I'm going with the latter. Sure, a guy who apparently is only a private pilot with an IFR rating. Apparently no jet experience, no commercial flying experience. Use him as an authority on a 777 commericial flight. I've already seen commercial pilots debunk his nonsense, starting with his claim that the crew would not put on oxygen masks if they had a fire. Especially since the MDM has backtracked on so many things. That's my courtroom background. I consider him impeached and his testimony to be worthless. That makes it easy for me to dismiss any facts he proffers. Fine, so then you don't have any facts to base anything on, so why all the fire nonsense, if it's not based on anything based in fact? Our difference lies in your willingness to accept some of his statements as factual, and they well may be. For me, he's in the realm of "if you say it, something ELSE has to back your claims." In the case of the left turn, flying not to the nearest airport, but to the Straits and last seen on the flight paths to India, that has been seen by NTSB and the US manufacturer of the radar eqpt. Thailand also reported seeing the plane on it's radar. You would surely think that if it was bogus, someone would be saying it by now. So, no what? Just chuck that and stick to the fire theory because some guy with private pilots license says so? I don't think that guy even bothered to follow the facts as they've emerged. He just ignored what we know and went with almost pure speculation. I've asked you these points before and I'll ask them again regarding what Goodfellow is claiming: "When I saw that left turn with a direct heading, I instinctively knew he was heading for an airport. He was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi, a 13,000-foot airstrip with an approach over water and no obstacles. The captain did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000-foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier toward Langkawi, which also was closer." When they made that left turn, the airport at Kota Bahru, with an 8000ft runway, perectly capable of landing a 777, was about 140 miles away. It's right on the coast. Yet they chose to fly a burning plane 175 miles farther, all the way across Malaysia to the other coast? He just picks that Palau Langkawi airport because it happens to be near where the plane went by, on the other side of Malaysia. No response that your "fire" source is so dumb that he didn't even know that the nearest airport was Kota Bahru? Instead, he looks where the plane winded up, the Straits, finds an airport that's somewhat near there, and says "I instantly knew they were headed to that airport" Sure, fly the flamning plane, 175 miles farther. And then no indication at all that they even where headed exactly to that airport, it's just in that general area. What an idiot that guy is. I think it was all over very quickly in that plane. That's especially if, as the EgyptAir fire suggests, they had an oxygen fed fire, perhaps started by the lithium battery cargo. It might have been an explosion in the cargo hold or it could have been an electrical fire. Then the plane would be off Kota Bahru. It would not be flying, making precision turns, over the straits, and then yet at least another left turn to get to Australia. Good grief. There are only two ways for that to happen. Either someone was flying it by hand or those waypoints were in the autopilot. Either one points to a nut pilot or hijack, not a fire. Unless it was a magical fire that managed to result not only in loss of VHF radio, ACARS, transponder, etc, just at the point in flight where it would be idea to go missing, but also so magical that it somehow made the plane fly 8 more hours, making precise turns. It wasn't until the Valuejet cockpit recorder was recovered that they could read the distinctive signs of an on-board explosion (a "bup" on the CVR and a sharp rise in internal air pressure). They knew it was a fire because the pilots made a mayday call, like any sane pilots would do in that situation. SwissAir did the same thing. There's probably one a week somewhere in the world, where they smell smoke, think they see smoke and make a call to ATC to head to the nearest airport. And if it was the sudden raging inferno in the cockpit, which you've also advanced, that killed everyone, then the plane would be in the ocean off Kota Bahru, not Australia. Most bizarre of all is your attempt to blame the ValuJEt crash on them making a mayday call. Read the NTSB report. The fire resulted in destruction of the flight control systems and left the plane uncontrollable. Those pilots did everything right, starting with the mayday call. We don't have any of that information but we do know an oxygen-fed fire can destroy a cabin within 17 seconds. There we have it, the inferno theory again, that leaves the plane making precise manuvers, aligning with the flight paths, etc an hour and a half later and flying to Australia. Good grief. My theory, which explains even your facts, is that the plane caught fire, the pilots tried to pull busses to kill the fire and to get it to safety but it was all over (for them, not the plane) in seconds. Once the on-board fire suppression system kicked, the people were already dead, and the plane stabilized and flew on auto-pilot until it ran out of gas and crashed. And how the hell is it that the autopilot took it to the Straits, made a precise zig=zag there, aligning with paths to India? And how did the autopilot make the reported altitude changes along the way? And then how did the autopilot take it to Australia? Answer: No way, unless someone put those waypoints into it. Is that what you'd do in a fire? Enter bizarre waypoints instead of doing the simple, obvious thing, which is declare an emergency and ask for immediate vectors to the nearest airport? You could do the latter with a 15 sec push of the mike button on the controls. It's what every other pilot does. You don't have to screw with the autopilot and enter a route to Australia. Oh, and note that the plane didn't land there, or pass close to it, instead it made a precise zig-zag to waypoints that left in perfectly aligned with the flight path to India/Middle East at 29,500 ft. It was on radar contact hundreds of miles This is all based on data from the Malaysian government, isn't it? Ptui! Sure, better to make up the fire theory and then make up whatever you need to go with it. If you're not going to use what data there is then you can just make up any crap, which is what your pilot reference guy apparently did too. The flight radar data referenced above has been seen by NTSB, the radar manufacturer. IDK who all else. It's also consistent with Inmarsat. Are they lying? Good grief. Either use what's available and reasonably vetted at this point, or else you have *nothing* but wild conjecture. It's not worth anything because they've not been straight with the public on so many things. If that's what happened, who can say whether the auto-pilot did it? It doesn't matter if the autopilot did it or the pilots hand flew it. It didn't go to the nearest airport. It didn't go near the nearest airport. Even if the autopilot was flying it, who put the flight waypoints to the Straits, to Australia into the autopilot? Martians? Magical fire that rages throught the plane, taking out radios, transponders, ACARS, and just damaging the autopilot so that it now has some bizarre route and flies it? That's probable, more probable than one of the pilots did it? Good grief, you're making less sense every post. Didn't we see the same segment on CNN that explains how the AP would "fill in" way points if nothing was entered in time? IDK what you saw. I never saw any such thing or anyone ever talk about an autopilot putting in waypoints to the straits, to Australia, etc on it's own. That's pretty nutty. The pilots could have mis-entered course data as the cabin filled with smoke or they behaved erratically as the oxygen ran out. If they had just contacted ATC with the radio that was working perfectly fine 2 mins before, they could have just dialed the autopilot knob to a heading, which is far simpler than entering waypoints to Australia. And it does have the benefit of clearing out the airspace ahead of you so you don't run into a 747 at night. About now it's time for the old: aviate navigate communicate Except in your world, you just apparently go back and forth between 1 and 2, totally ignoring 3. And in #1, I guess aviating doesn't include making sure you don't fly into a 747 on your course choice of your own. And even #2, they wouldn't have to navigate if they issued a mayday call and request for vectoring to Kota Bahru. In 15 secs they'd have a response to turn left, heading 275, any flight level, your discretion. Then they turn the autopilot knob to 275. Seems a lot simpler, safer, and easier than entering coordinates to the straits and then onto australia. Somewhere on YouTube there must be videos of people passing out from anoxia. They get *very* punchy before they pass out. It's probably a video of the pilot with the fire theory while he was writing that nonsense. Maybe you can point me to way-point and radar data I find credible, but my last recollection was that the MGov recanted their claims about way points and the times of radio and transponder transmissions. AFAIK, they only recanted that they knew the waypoints had been entered into the autopilot a considerable time before the plane first made it's left turn and went missing. There is no excuse for that confusion, they should have known one way of the other. What more radar data do you need or want? The plane could have landed at Kota Bahru. It flew to the Straits. It was headed toward India. It wound up at Australia. How does a fire, everyone dead, the autopilot did it explain even that? Of course it doesn't. But the nut pilot theory fits just fine. Here's a good description of some of what came out: http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-...370-flown-deli http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/0...so-far/359355/ http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A2D0DG20140314 The MGov got enough stuff wrong enough times to be deemed very untrustworthy. The Inmarsat Doppler analysis, however, I find much more credible but I am not aware that it could discriminate motion finely enough to determine if the plane was "hitting standard waypoints." So my position is that the way point data is inconclusive at best. If someone *was* at the controls, why did it eventually just fly in a straight line into the middle of the Indian Ocean? That's big damn hole in the human intervention theory. Why in the world is that a big hole? A nutty pilot has taken at least two similar planes and put them into the ocean, committing suicide, killing everyone aboard. Who says another one couldn't choose to put it into the hardest spot to ever figure out, to leave the world with a mystery? As far as flying a straight line, AFAIK, no one has said what route they think it flew after last radar contact was lost over the Straits. They only have circles of where it could be once an hour. It's probably pretty much a straight line, but so what? Nut pilot could be sitting there, getting loaded on scotch, popping pills, praying to Allah or jerking off, or have killed himself already with the plane on autopilotwhat. What difference does a straight line make? Those recorders are going to stop pinging soon - they're running out of time to find them. If they don't get them soon, it could easily take more than the two years it took to find AirFrance's BB's. At least they knew where that plane went down. -- Bobby G. They aren't going to find them via pinging. More likely you'd win the Mega millions jackpot, because as you point out, the potential area to search is huge and the process is slow. |
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stuff snipped I think there is still a reasonable probability that they will find debris doing the search. But I agree it's also possible that someone will just come across something floating or washed up on a beach somewhere. Even that, if it happend months from now, would be a major step. We'd at least know for sure which general area it went down in and that it's not being outfitted with bombs in Pakistan. There was a news item in the NY Times today that had some interesting things to say, some of which both of us had already noted (fair use excerpt below): http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/24...arch-plan-for- malaysia-airlines-flight-370-is-based-on-farther-controlled-flying.html Investigators have concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which veered off course and disappeared on March 8, was probably not seriously damaged in the air and remained in controlled flight for hours after contact with it was lost, until it ran out of fuel over the southern Indian Ocean . .. . The altitude readings from the radar now appear to have been inaccurate, officials said . . . Initial reports about the radar readings suggested that along the way, the plane soared as high as 45,000 feet . . . But a comprehensive international review has found that the Malaysian radar equipment had not been calibrated with enough precision to draw any conclusions about the aircraft's true altitude. "The primary radar data pertaining to altitude is regarded as unreliable," said Angus Houston, the retired head of the Australian military who is now coordinating the search . .. . he said he doubted whether anyone could prove that the plane had soared and swooped the way the initial reports suggested . . . Martin Dolan, the chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, agreed with Mr. Houston. "There's nothing reliable about height," . . . Other officials involved in the crash investigation have suggested that either of the plane's pilots might have commandeered the aircraft in order to commit suicide, or that smoke from a fire in the fuselage might have overcome the pilots and passengers but left the engines and autopilot working normally . . . Some investigators are convinced that one of the pilots was involved . . . But others say that the evidence suggesting pilot involvement is inconclusive and contradictory . . . the dismissal of the radar altitude data prompted a change in the focus of the search . . .The specifics are still being finalized, but the new search zone is likely to be a band roughly 400 miles long and about 60 miles wide, straddling the arc . .. . The width of the band is based on a crucial assumption: that when it ran out of fuel, the plane was being flown by its autopilot. Another article I read dismissed "pilot suicide" as being seriously out of character with suicidal behavior (as in taking 5 hours to commit it) and with previous incidents of pilot suicide. Meanwhile, "soft" forensic evidence is probably being nibbled away by crabs and other undersea scavengers. If they find the craft, there's still no guarantee the wreck will tell us much more than we already know. At least it will settle our disagreement about a fire in the cabin, but the remaining evidence may never tell us, if there was no fire, precisely what *did* happen. -- Bobby G. |
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On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:47:20 PM UTC-4, Guv Bob wrote:
"Robert Green" wrote in message ... "trader_4" wrote in message news:e4aa3ac2- stuff snipped I think there is still a reasonable probability that they will find debris doing the search. But I agree it's also possible that... Just one more reason to go back to "training" and put primary control back in the hands of people and use automation and computer control as backup. Not sure what that means. Primary control always has been and continues to be in the hands of the pilots. And no evidence from anything I've seen related to 370 that indicates that has anything to do with whatever happened. |
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"Robert Green" wrote in message ...
"trader_4" wrote in message news:e4aa3ac2- stuff snipped I think there is still a reasonable probability that they will find debris doing the search. But I agree it's also possible that... Just one more reason to go back to "training" and put primary control back in the hands of people and use automation and computer control as backup. |
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On 6/25/2014 12:55 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:47:20 PM UTC-4, Guv Bob wrote: "Robert Green" wrote in message ... "trader_4" wrote in message news:e4aa3ac2- stuff snipped I think there is still a reasonable probability that they will find debris doing the search. But I agree it's also possible that... Just one more reason to go back to "training" and put primary control back in the hands of people and use automation and computer control as backup. Not sure what that means. Primary control always has been and continues to be in the hands of the pilots. And no evidence from anything I've seen related to 370 that indicates that has anything to do with whatever happened. Not sure what you mean either. This is a quote from the NTSB report: The Asiana flight crew "over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand," he said. The South Korea-based airline said the pilot and co-pilot reasonably believed the automatic throttle would keep the plane flying fast enough to land safely, They assumed the throttle would be adjusted by automation, but that did not happen. It the automation was not there to begin with, they would have known to adjust as required. I was taught to keep the speed up on approach on my first ever landing. These guys knew that too, but relied on automation. |
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:49:05 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote: "trader_4" wrote in message news:e4aa3ac2- stuff snipped I think there is still a reasonable probability that they will find debris doing the search. But I agree it's also possible that someone will just come across something floating or washed up on a beach somewhere. Even that, if it happend months from now, would be a major step. We'd at least know for sure which general area it went down in and that it's not being outfitted with bombs in Pakistan. There was a news item in the NY Times today that had some interesting things to say, some of which both of us had already noted (fair use excerpt below): http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/24...arch-plan-for- malaysia-airlines-flight-370-is-based-on-farther-controlled-flying.html Investigators have concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which veered off course and disappeared on March 8, was probably not seriously damaged in the air and remained in controlled flight for hours after contact with it was lost, until it ran out of fuel over the southern Indian Ocean . . . The altitude readings from the radar now appear to have been inaccurate, officials said . . . Initial reports about the radar readings suggested that along the way, the plane soared as high as 45,000 feet . . . But a comprehensive international review has found that the Malaysian radar equipment had not been calibrated with enough precision to draw any conclusions about the aircraft's true altitude. "The primary radar data pertaining to altitude is regarded as unreliable," said Angus Houston, the retired head of the Australian military who is now coordinating the search . . . he said he doubted whether anyone could prove that the plane had soared and swooped the way the initial reports suggested . . . Martin Dolan, the chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, agreed with Mr. Houston. "There's nothing reliable about height," . . . Other officials involved in the crash investigation have suggested that either of the plane's pilots might have commandeered the aircraft in order to commit suicide, or that smoke from a fire in the fuselage might have overcome the pilots and passengers but left the engines and autopilot working normally . . . Some investigators are convinced that one of the pilots was involved . . . But others say that the evidence suggesting pilot involvement is inconclusive and contradictory . . . the dismissal of the radar altitude data prompted a change in the focus of the search . . .The specifics are still being finalized, but the new search zone is likely to be a band roughly 400 miles long and about 60 miles wide, straddling the arc . . . The width of the band is based on a crucial assumption: that when it ran out of fuel, the plane was being flown by its autopilot. The width of the band is based on a crucial assumption: that when it ran out of fuel, the plane was being flown by its autopilot, which was unable to control the plane when the engines stopped. In that case, the plane would have stalled and fallen quickly into the ocean. If a skilled pilot was conscious and still at the controls, however, the plane could have glided more than 100 miles before it hit the water. Another article I read dismissed "pilot suicide" as being seriously out of character with suicidal behavior (as in taking 5 hours to commit it) and with previous incidents of pilot suicide. Meanwhile, "soft" forensic evidence is probably being nibbled away by crabs and other undersea scavengers. If they find the craft, there's still no guarantee the wreck will tell us much more than we already know. At least it will settle our disagreement about a fire in the cabin, but the remaining evidence may never tell us, if there was no fire, precisely what *did* happen. |
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On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 2:50:43 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 6/25/2014 12:55 PM, trader_4 wrote: On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:47:20 PM UTC-4, Guv Bob wrote: "Robert Green" wrote in message ... "trader_4" wrote in message news:e4aa3ac2- stuff snipped I think there is still a reasonable probability that they will find debris doing the search. But I agree it's also possible that... Just one more reason to go back to "training" and put primary control back in the hands of people and use automation and computer control as backup. Not sure what that means. Primary control always has been and continues to be in the hands of the pilots. And no evidence from anything I've seen related to 370 that indicates that has anything to do with whatever happened. Not sure what you mean either. This is a quote from the NTSB report: The Asiana flight crew "over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand," he said. What I'm saying is that the thread is about Malaysian Air 370, which went missing not the Asiana flight that crashed at SFO. The post GuvBob replied to was about MH370. If Asiana is what he's talking about, which he did not say, it has nothing to do with 370 and I'm not a mind reader. The South Korea-based airline said the pilot and co-pilot reasonably believed the automatic throttle would keep the plane flying fast enough to land safely, They assumed the throttle would be adjusted by automation, but that did not happen. It the automation was not there to begin with, they would have known to adjust as required. Maybe, or they could have just as well have still flown it into the ditch. When there is confusion in the cockpit and no one is paying proper attention, that has happened plenty of times too. I was taught to keep the speed up on approach on my first ever landing. These guys knew that too, but relied on automation. The fundamental mistake would seem to be not paying attention to the most basic flight rules, ie no one watching airspeed on approach. Maybe it's more likely to happen if you set the autothrottle, but it's no excuse. And I can find you wrecks where if the plane was just put on autopilot, or had the autothrottle engaged instead of the pilot flying it into the ground, everything would have been fine too. |
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Last I've heard is that after 14 weeks of searching, not a single piece of debris from the plane has been found. Now, Australian authorities are changing the search area yet again.
I think this one is going to turn into an Amilia Earhart, where what actually happened isn't going to be known for decades. At this point, we don't even know for certain that the plane crashed. The only evidence of foul play so far is that the hard drive in the flight simulator that the pilot had at home shows that he was practicing landing on an island. And, that's the full extent of the evidence against him. Last edited by nestork : June 26th 14 at 12:36 AM |
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On 6/25/2014 3:06 PM, trader_4 wrote:
Not sure what you mean either. This is a quote from the NTSB report: The Asiana flight crew "over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand," he said. What I'm saying is that the thread is about Malaysian Air 370, which went missing not the Asiana flight that crashed at SFO. The post GuvBob replied to was about MH370. If Asiana is what he's talking about, which he did not say, it has nothing to do with 370 and I'm not a mind reader. Crap, you may be right. I was reading about the Asiana flight and may have added to the confusion. The fundamental mistake would seem to be not paying attention to the most basic flight rules, ie no one watching airspeed on approach. Maybe it's more likely to happen if you set the autothrottle, but it's no excuse. Yes |
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Flight MH370 disaster - new theory (asphyxia - air problems)
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 8:41:07 AM UTC-4, Robert Green wrote:
"trader_4" wrote in message news:b1fe4aaf- stuff snipped http://blog-peuravion.fr/2015/07/a-t...370/#more-1453 Claim to be photos of the debris which looks a lot more like a plane part than anything they've yanked out of the ocean to date. -- Bobby G. And now apparently they have a piece of luggage too. It's just one and could just be other ocean rubbish. But I would not be surprised that before long they have some other stuff that can be directly tied to MH370. The only bad part of course is that it won't shed any real light on where to look for the wreckage. And it won't stop the conspiracy theorists from continuing to believe it's in Afghanistan or Diego Garcia. |
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Flight MH370 disaster - new theory (asphyxia - air problems)
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 2:56:40 AM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:06:26 AM UTC-4, Uncle Monster wrote: Bobby G. I heard about the discovery of the part of a wing and there must be serial numbers on something that could indicate which plane it came from but how many 777 have crashed in that area? I just heard on the radio that a French team is headed there to examine the piece. 8-) [8~{} Uncle Crash Monster Only MH370. They've only lost about six 777 in the two decades they've been built. The first fatal crash was just last year, when that Asian airline ran one into the ditch in San Francisco. One was lost in landing short in London, all survived. Couple others had fires on the ground I think. Then you had the one deliberately shot down over Ukraine. None of them could have been the source. One very interesting additional possibility will be what they can learn from the damage to this flap. It's likely that they can determine something about the likely speed of the impact at least. A more intriguing possibility is that they might also be able to determine if the flap was retracted or deployed at the time of the crash. If it was deployed, that will raise all kinds of new questions, theories, etc. Another focus will be on whether that flap could have floated all the way from where they think the plane went down to where they found it. You wouldn't think it would be that watertight, but most likely it did. Another thing I don't understand why they don't do with searches like this is to use long term buoys to aid with the search. I think they actually do, to some limited extent, but I don't think they track them for long. But with MH370, if they had released some buoys near the likely crash area, even a couple weeks after the crash, and track them by satellite, then they'd know where to look for stuff washing up a month or a year later. If you knew the buoys showed up in the area of this island, then we'd have further supporting evidence and more importantly, people there could have been alerted to look for stuff. Could be other stuff, passenger items, etc are there too, but in small amounts, look like just other random things you find washed up, etc. You can bet there is a lot of focus now on what else they've picked up there. Same thing with those missing 14 year olds. I think in some of those cases they do release tracking buoys of some kind. Didn't hear what they did in that case. PS: Why didn't RG just start a new thread instead of revive this ancient and long one? Drain Bamage always strikes unexpectedly but the disappearance of the jetliner is a topic of current interest. There was a story on TV this morning about the improvements to ELT's, Emergency Locator Transmitters for small private planes going on a NASA. It seems to me that commercial jets that fly over the oceans should be equipped with a buoy that ejects upon the crash of the aircraft which contains a record of the GPS position of the plane when it goes down. It could use off the shelf technology and also contain an ELT beacon. One thing that really bothers me about the inability of naval vessels from several countries to locate the crash is the capability of government agencies like the NRO which has satellite eyes on everything all over the world including aircraft traversing the world's oceans. Perhaps some intelligence agency knows damn well where that plane went down but is keeping quiet about it in order to conceal their top secret capabilities. o_O [8~{} Uncle Secret Monster |
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Flight MH370 disaster - new theory (asphyxia - air problems)
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:09:04 PM UTC-4, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 2:56:40 AM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote: On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:06:26 AM UTC-4, Uncle Monster wrote: Bobby G. I heard about the discovery of the part of a wing and there must be serial numbers on something that could indicate which plane it came from but how many 777 have crashed in that area? I just heard on the radio that a French team is headed there to examine the piece. 8-) [8~{} Uncle Crash Monster Only MH370. They've only lost about six 777 in the two decades they've been built. The first fatal crash was just last year, when that Asian airline ran one into the ditch in San Francisco. One was lost in landing short in London, all survived. Couple others had fires on the ground I think. Then you had the one deliberately shot down over Ukraine. None of them could have been the source. One very interesting additional possibility will be what they can learn from the damage to this flap. It's likely that they can determine something about the likely speed of the impact at least. A more intriguing possibility is that they might also be able to determine if the flap was retracted or deployed at the time of the crash. If it was deployed, that will raise all kinds of new questions, theories, etc. Another focus will be on whether that flap could have floated all the way from where they think the plane went down to where they found it. You wouldn't think it would be that watertight, but most likely it did. Another thing I don't understand why they don't do with searches like this is to use long term buoys to aid with the search. I think they actually do, to some limited extent, but I don't think they track them for long. But with MH370, if they had released some buoys near the likely crash area, even a couple weeks after the crash, and track them by satellite, then they'd know where to look for stuff washing up a month or a year later. If you knew the buoys showed up in the area of this island, then we'd have further supporting evidence and more importantly, people there could have been alerted to look for stuff. Could be other stuff, passenger items, etc are there too, but in small amounts, look like just other random things you find washed up, etc. You can bet there is a lot of focus now on what else they've picked up there. Same thing with those missing 14 year olds. I think in some of those cases they do release tracking buoys of some kind. Didn't hear what they did in that case. PS: Why didn't RG just start a new thread instead of revive this ancient and long one? Drain Bamage always strikes unexpectedly but the disappearance of the jetliner is a topic of current interest. There was a story on TV this morning about the improvements to ELT's, Emergency Locator Transmitters for small private planes going on a NASA. It seems to me that commercial jets that fly over the oceans should be equipped with a buoy that ejects upon the crash of the aircraft which contains a record of the GPS position of the plane when it goes down. It could use off the shelf technology and also contain an ELT beacon. They have that for some military aircraft. For commercial, it seems more likely that we'll have some version of constant streaming data in the future. One thing that really bothers me about the inability of naval vessels from several countries to locate the crash is the capability of government agencies like the NRO which has satellite eyes on everything all over the world including aircraft traversing the world's oceans. Perhaps some intelligence agency knows damn well where that plane went down but is keeping quiet about it in order to conceal their top secret capabilities. o_O [8~{} Uncle Secret Monster I doubt they have assets focused on planes traveling in the South Indian Ocean, or even most places for that matter. There are certain high value targets that are of the most interest at any given moment. |
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Flight MH370 disaster - new theory (asphyxia - air problems)
"trader_4" wrote in message
... On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 8:41:07 AM UTC-4, Robert Green wrote: "trader_4" wrote in message news:b1fe4aaf- stuff snipped http://blog-peuravion.fr/2015/07/a-t...370/#more-1453 Claim to be photos of the debris which looks a lot more like a plane part than anything they've yanked out of the ocean to date. -- Bobby G. And now apparently they have a piece of luggage too. It's just one and could just be other ocean rubbish. But I would not be surprised that before long they have some other stuff that can be directly tied to MH370. The only bad part of course is that it won't shed any real light on where to look for the wreckage. And it won't stop the conspiracy theorists from continuing to believe it's in Afghanistan or Diego Garcia. I suspect we'll see a lot of stuff now because this in an indication that a very diffuse debris cloud is hitting or has hit the island. I also don't thinking anyone was really looking in that area but now they will be looking very much harder. I suspect passenger compartment contents might still contain traces of explosives or products of combustion (if there are any) but any other details may be lost forever. Both recorders overwrote their media after two hours IIRC, and they may not have even been powered during the flight. Human forensics won't yield much after this time although if they find people trapped in the fuselage, they might get some surprising information. One this is su this is an expensive mystery story that's probably now going to go into overdrive. The folks with the most valuable inputs are probably going to come from people who track the great patches of garbage that float in the ocean. A cloud of floating debris apparently doesn't dissipate the way one would expect but clumps together. Hopefully the MH370 debris did, too, and more pieces will be arriving shortly. I recall one case where a cell phone video retrieved from the passenger compartment of a downed plane gave investigators invaluable data regarding the crash. I wonder who tests cell phones/laptops for recoverable data in such conditions and what the success rate is? It is comforting to know this plane didn't just fly off into nowhere like Amelia Earhart. A while back they claimed to have found a piece of her plane but after this story I never read anything else: http://news.discovery.com/history/us...ane-141028.htm An aluminum plate is far less convincing than a flaperon. -- Bobby G. |
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