Missing Malaysian flight

[Mr_hANky]

Possible debris found of the WA coast.

 

[moorey]

Possible debris found of the WA coast.

Also just in, cigarettes may cause cancer.

 

[johnny]

We are referring to the same prime minister right?

lol

He's just making sure that they aren't in Australian waters - otherwise they'll have to be processed in Nauru first...

lolX2



Even if it is found of the coast of WA only one question has been answered. Many more yet to be addressed.

 

[moorey]

All that article states moorey is that the waypoint was entered into the FMC by someone. Although the pilot may have entered the waypoint into the FMC if he were hypoxic he could be oblivious that it's the wrong one.

This was the podcast I heard it initially from.
http://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-MP3.xml

 

[Unlearn]

What would it be doing off Perth? I mean what reason could there be fly out over the Indian Ocean?

 

[pharmaboy]

Either because it was a ghost flight, or to make it look like a ghost flight.

Or possibly with the belief that the wreckage would never be found - the great disappear in' plane

 

[taquar]

What would it be doing off Perth? I mean what reason could there be fly out over the Indian Ocean?

Aliens... Duh?

 

[Mr_hANky]

Also just in, cigarettes may cause cancer.

Remind me to send you a packet or 3 sometime then.

 

[moorey]

Remind me to send you a packet or 3 sometime then.

:high5::high5:
Score!!!!

 

[Dozer]

So lets say this find off the Australian coast is the plane. Claims are it was on autopilot and had been for a long time. I thought autopilot input had to have an end destination? I'm assuming the pilot wouldn't have put Antarctica then bolted to put a fire out?

 

[Art Vanderlay]

So lets say this find off the Australian coast is the plane. Claims are it was on autopilot and had been for a long time. I thought autopilot input had to have an end destination? I'm assuming the pilot wouldn't have put Antarctica then bolted to put a fire out?

Maybe taking the scenic route around the globe?

 

[Dozer]

Maybe taking the scenic route around the globe?

That's gone pear shaped!

 

[scblack]

Maybe taking the scenic route around the globe?

They mis-read the sales pitch.

They ended up on the "You are IN the scenic route" flight.

 

[redbruce]

Biggest bit is 24m long.....although the imagry isn't high res. 777 wings are about 29m in length......i'd have thought the nature of a detached aircraft wing would be to float if the (possibly empty) fuel tanks weren't breached. That said, i'm sceptical until they absolutely confirm it's parts of a 777.

Shipping container/s?

 

[willsy01]

Shipping container/s?

Standard shipping containers are only 12m long.....so unless two of them have somehow fused themselves together, I don't think that's what it is.

I"m still sceptical that they've found anything at all.

 

[johnny]

There are longer than the standard 12m though, right?

 

[C0na]

There are longer than the standard 12m though, right?

56-ft (17m) Is the biggest ISO container.
777 is 74m long.

 

[redbruce]

56-ft (17m) Is the biggest ISO container.
777 is 74m long.

And the news said 24 m objects were sighted (+_ measurement accuracy of satellite). So container theory plausible.

 

[Xavo.au]

Do containers float though?

I thought they'd have little holes that would eventually fill them with water?

 

[johnny]

A lot of the time they will float suspended just below the surface. Boats run in to them on a semi-regular basis. There's decent money in container salvaging.