so heres my take on the MH370 disappearance. 16:41 Take-off, heading roughly north everything smooth the copilot listens to mp3 music on his cell-phone, which is on airplane mode 17:19 above the gulf of Thaïland. Last contact with ATC right after that, the copilot changes batteries on his phone. The phone, powering on again, briefly makes contact with a cell-phone tower in Penang ( edition.cnn/2014/04/14/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/), before the copilot sets it on airplane mode again. that done, he sets it on the most logical place, at his side, on the pedestal to his left (meriweather/flightdeck/777/deck-777.html) youll notice that that space there between the Emergency Evacuation Signal System and the Audio Controls is just asking for it ! 17:20 oups ! the copilots cell phone lithium battery catches fire, as described here : runwaygirlnetwork/2014/02/27/ped-battery-fires-on-777s-prompt-call-for-action/, except this time its not in the cabin, but in the cockpit ! 17 :21 as the flight attendants did in similar cases, (see above), the copilots first reflex is to put water on it (or alternatively something else, even a proper fire retardant) both the transponder (meriweather/flightdeck/777/ped/atc.html#) and the audio control (meriweather/flightdeck/777/ped/audio.html#) panels are ruined. 17:22 the transponder ceases to function, as well as the satcom right after that, the pilot, who was a very careful professional, validates the emergency destination that he had pre-entered in case of emergency into the auto-pilot. The new destination, as it has been abundantly commented, is Palau Langkawi. The plane turns to the west. 17:30 Vietnam ATC, unable to raise the plane on radio, asks another plane to contact them. They kind of succeed, but can not communicate. The communication is garbled. MH370s radio is as good as dead. The two pilots think they have the fire on the pedestal under control, but they dont. They are overcome by fumes and fall unconscious right at the time when the pilot disengaged the autopilot by taking the controls over again to make his turn for the approach to Langakwi. The last heading happens to be south. 18:15 last radar contact, in the strait of Malacca. The pilots are dead. the cockpit door is shut and unopenable. Anyway, its night, so most passengers are sleeping. By the time the rest of the crew realizes that they are not going to the emergency airport (the pilots probably told them about the problem), they are in the middle of the Indian Ocean, far from any cell tower that might have (or not) been able to let them communicate with the rest of the world. The plane continues on its heading until fuel exhausted. Once again, youve heard it here first. (And probably last).
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:01:49 +0000
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