So WTH really happened to this Malaysian aircraft??

[Blarg]

You should avoid trying to land it into a skyscraper.

[gotbeer]

I fly it everyday. Still haven't made a decent landing yet.

 

When you stick the landing, I'm sure Malaysian Air is hiring.

[Blarg]

That's the problem, he keeps sticking the landing,

 

[Tank]

waiting on blarg to find a pic of an actual f-15.

 

you're not fooling anyone with that cheesy f-16 nonsense, bub.

[ten ocho recon scout]

My afternoon instructor cancelled his sessions so I had time to experiment with fuel. This is a F-15S sim so it's not exact but it gives an idea of the difference altitude makes. I went to several altitudes and held 500 knots ground speed at level flight heading 300.

35,000 feet = 3900 pounds per hour per engine

15.000 feet = 5600 PPH

5000 feet = 7000 PPH

I also went to 45,000 to check the cabin pressure and it jump from a comfortable 12,000 at 35k to and less comfy 18,000 and 45k.

thats crazy how much more fuel it eats up to fly low

[ten ocho recon scout]

Its harder to rape their anuses with their girlfriends' vaginas and microchips on land than in air

unless youre an undercover govt agent.

[Ohtaniland]

 

We found the plane.......

[Vegas Halo Fan]

My opinion is that the plane landed somewhere well off the beaten (and closely monitored) path. As a retired American 777 captain said, it would make no sense to fly for seven hours just to crash and die. He said that a 777 light on fuel (which this one certainly would have been) can land and stop on a runway as short as 3500 feet - which leaves literally hundreds of possibilities within the flight range of a 777 airborne for seven hours. Several of them are on remote islands.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

When you stick the landing, I'm sure Asiana is hiring.

 

Fixed.

[mancini79]

 

We found the plane.......

 

Too bad nobody knows what island they are on!

[arch stanton]

waiting on blarg to find a pic of an actual f-15.

 

you're not fooling anyone with that cheesy f-16 nonsense, bub.

That's why we call F-16s lawn darts.

[NJHalo]

The United States has a "listening post" on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. This location is used to spy on most of Asia, and has been since the Vietnam war.

 

I have to believe they know something. 

[arch stanton]

The United States has a "listening post" on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. This location is used to spy on most of Asia, and has been since the Vietnam war.

 

I have to believe they know something. 

This is why I always believed they went north.

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Is it odd that Indonesia is refusing to allow search planes to fly over their airspace?

[Blarg]

Nope.

[Lhalo]

It's amazing how the 24hr news channels can cover this nonstop with barely any new details coming out. They just repeat the same crap over and over and over and over and over.

[Sully151]

It's amazing how the 24hr news channels can cover this nonstop with barely any new details coming out. They just repeat the same crap over and over and over and over and over.

Seriously. I mean, don't they know that is what Internet forums are for?

Edited March 20, 2014 by Sully151

[Ray McKigney]

Don't think has been posted here. This is a must read for those of who you are following along with this story. The author is a pilot and what he says makes a lot of sense:

 

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

Edited March 19, 2014 by Ray McKigney

[gotbeer]

Still doesn't answer why the transponder was turned off.  

[mancini79]

Australia officials believe they have found debris that looks of a plane with their satellite imaging. They are sending planes for closer inspection. Expect a more conclusive result any moment.

[Lhalo]

Australia officials believe they have found debris that looks of a plane with their satellite imaging. They are sending planes for closer inspection. Expect a more conclusive result any moment.

Finally something newsworthy about this plane story.

[gotbeer]

About time they find Amelia's plane.

[Lhalo]

It sounds like whatever they saw is quite large. It's hard to believe that something that big from a jet plane could float for 11 days in the ocean according to my all-knowing mega brain.

[Tank]

They've been searching an area the size of Colorado. Several planes in the area searching.

[QuinlansMinion]

Breaking News

 

Flight objects possibly from the plane FOUND