mattwnz:

itxtme:

mattwnz:

turnin: https://www.youtube.com/user/catalinapby1
^ Pilots youtube page, he subscribed to some fairly normal stuff, science mainly, including TED, some of his comments were political but hey so are mine, I'd guess he was left wing - ish, he also made a couple of vids, sounds pretty normal to me.
 

Apparently he also stayed in NZ in 2012. Love how NZ media love to give the story some NZ connection.

Its called "The kiwi connection" and it infuriates me.  Its like nothing in the world can be relevant to us all unless the persons uncles cousin once googled going to NZ (or some other *connection*)

Now TV 1 has done it, they have said that the background of the pilots photo is that Auckland.

Fred99:

snowfly: Yet another possible yet interesting theory: http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malaysian-airlines-370-disappear-using-sia68

Now that's actually very good, IMO.
I don't know enough about radar on the SIA flight, but I guess it's only in the nose and with a big blind area to the rear (what's behind you isn't important). Nav lights off, transponder off, secondary radar off, ACARS off, tuck in close with care to stay away from the wash, and sit there for a few hours.  Perfect.
I wonder if he could have had a cellular device connection to "flightradar", to confirm schedule/position of the SIA flight, as if it was a few minutes late, then he'd have otherwise had only visual - looking for nav lights - and there's a lot of sky out there would have been a problem.
(edit to that - there's probably an ADS-B receiver on the 777 cockpit displays anyway - and which doesn't need two-way connection - just line of sight to the other plane)

Technofreak:

Fred99:

snowfly: Yet another possible yet interesting theory: http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malaysian-airlines-370-disappear-using-sia68

Now that's actually very good, IMO.
I don't know enough about radar on the SIA flight, but I guess it's only in the nose and with a big blind area to the rear (what's behind you isn't important). Nav lights off, transponder off, secondary radar off, ACARS off, tuck in close with care to stay away from the wash, and sit there for a few hours.  Perfect.
I wonder if he could have had a cellular device connection to "flightradar", to confirm schedule/position of the SIA flight, as if it was a few minutes late, then he'd have otherwise had only visual - looking for nav lights - and there's a lot of sky out there would have been a problem.
(edit to that - there's probably an ADS-B receiver on the 777 cockpit displays anyway - and which doesn't need two-way connection - just line of sight to the other plane)

Aircraft radar will not pick up other aircraft.

Yep, I guess you could say the TCAS was an ADS-B receiver BUT for it to work the transponder needs to be on, then it only identifies relative altitude and distance from you with limitations of about 7000 feet above and below you.  There is no specific aircraft identification.

Tagging in behind another aircraft would certainly mask that aircraft from radar, however, anyone whose done any formation flying will tell you it's pretty hard to get into formation and stay in formation without training and then plenty of recent practice.  I'm not sure a home flight sim would cut the mustard as a way to practice.

Fred99: 

Edit - Oh FFS - the Uighur "artist" in various news reports has a PhD and works (or worked) as an assistant professor in electrical and electronics engineering at a university in Turkey...
And that report claims he also had some flight simulation training.

Technofreak: One thing I'm trying to figure out. We are have been told about this being a well thought out "event".

One thing that does not add up, why the large gap from switching the ACARS off till switching the transponder off?  If you wanted to disappear in the ten minute time frame that is being suggested why wouldn't you carry out both activities at the same time in that time frame?  

Apparently the ACARS was switched off prior to leaving the Malaysian coast line, while the aircraft was still climbing. Why would you turn this off where it could have provided a possible alert and while still in radio contact where it would have been possible to query the crew on this action?

This also suggests either the hijacking took place very early on in the flight (during the climb phase) or both pilots were involved as it's highly unlikely either pilot would leave the cockpit during the climb portion of the flight. I doubt you could switch of the ACARS without the other pilot knowing.

Fred99:   But would disabling ACARS involve leaving your seat and flicking a circuit breaker etc - presumably in the cockpit?  That might not exclude the flight crew, but pretty well kills the idea of a hijacking.


If the hijacker's plan was to knock out both pilots and fly the plane to a destination - and land it himself, then it's just not credible IMO.

Every scenario seems to come to a dead end - unless it was the pilot, and the dead end there is motive.

 There's now a news item saying the aircraft dropped down to 5000 feet to avoid radar, this story matches the sighting of the fishermen and those people on the beach that morning. The terrain map provided by the enhanced ground warning system would make it possible to avoid terrain at night.

Sidestep:

 There's now a news item saying the aircraft dropped down to 5000 feet to avoid radar, this story matches the sighting of the fishermen and those people on the beach that morning. The terrain map provided by the enhanced ground warning system would make it possible to avoid terrain at night.

Hmm have to be pretty crappy radar not to catch you at 5000ft, that's where a lot of aircaft fly

snowfly: Yet another possible yet interesting theory: http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malaysian-airlines-370-disappear-using-sia68

I wonder if he could have had a cellular device connection ...

frankv:

snowfly: Yet another possible yet interesting theory: http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malaysian-airlines-370-disappear-using-sia68

Interesting, but there is an assumption that the military primary radar continued to correctly track MH370 after it arrived in the area of SQ68. It could also be true that at that point they misidentified SQ68 as being MH370, and the track from then on is actually of SQ68.

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joker97: so ... is this the same "plane" that flew across Malaysia revealed on day 2 of the crisis by somebody which was then denied by the air force which later became "we are not sure if that is the plane" and then now it was definitely the plane?

if so, they simply let unidentified flying objects across their airspace and then go back to sleep?

joker97: I'm a little skeptical now that a political motivation is being investigated ... 

Knowing the Malaysian government they can easily plant evidence and blame the opposition as being instigator and causation of the tragedy. Let's see how low they go to cover up ...