Aren't there rules regarding minimum fuel reserves on board?
Photos seem to suggest quite a low energy impact... Such a tragedy. But thankfully there were some survivors.
Here's a link to an article regarding the alleged emergency landings <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/egyptair-flight-ms804-made-three-emergency-landings-in-24-hours-before-crashing-into-the-mediterranean-sea_uk_574fdf1de4b040e3e818f59f" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...
Jump to postAnsa in Italy reporting that the aircraft made three emergency landings in the preceding 24 hours to the crash, due to erroneous technical malfunction warnings.
Anybody have any further info?
I'm still surprised as to why the Egyptians mentioned terrorist activity so quickly saying it was more likely than technical failure. They would have absolutely nothing to gain from that. That is unless whatever happened would reflect worse on them/have worse consequences... But what? Egypt has also...
Jump to postCabin pressure perhaps? Plus, sounds like main people involved were standing- pilots were fine. Simultaneous drop in blood pressure? Weird. But if it were air quality wouldn't more have been affected? Found this study reported in BBC - could be related? <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/102...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pihero" class="quote" target="_blank">Pihero</a> (<a href="#120" class="quote">Reply 120</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Pihero, what's ...
Jump to postJust skimming the front pages of newspapers and tabloids here in the UK, and there's a few already running the aeroplane was blown up theory. Apparently tour operators are offering alternatives to anybody booked to sharm. Fair enough, tabloids are notoriously unreliable- on the other hand it's looki...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/EMAman" class="quote" target="_blank">EMAman</a> (<a href="#150" class="quote">Reply 150</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> But the fr24 pl...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/txjim" class="quote" target="_blank">txjim</a> (<a href="#40" class="quote">Reply 40</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I'm going to take a...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/777Jet" class="quote" target="_blank">777Jet</a> (<a href="#199" class="quote">Reply 199</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I really cannot...
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Jump to postI remember in the week following MH370, ch 5 here in the UK held a live tv programme debating likely theories of what had happened. The air accident investigator (iirc that was her title) had the opinion it was a cyber crime- that somehow the plane got hacked. I'm starting to think about that.... Ab...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/lancelot07" class="quote" target="_blank">lancelot07</a> (<a href="#92" class="quote">Reply 92</a>):<br/><i>I don't think your idea with a vesse...
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Jump to postI await the find of the actual wreckage and black boxes. Until then it's an <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> flap from a 777, of which two were downed consecutively. Not necessarily endorsing conspiracy theories, but I certainly won't draw any conclusions from this. And I'm not sure I...
Jump to postStill, begs the question- how can they stop this sort of thing happening? Take a nut job flying into <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>, for a proper carrier, radicalised- decides to miss runway and slam into <acronym title="Turkmenistan Airlines">T5</acron...
Jump to postAccording to this rather vague article, two pilots have been identified as having potentially been radicalised by ISIS. <a href="http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/234715611" target="_blank">http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/234715611</a> Apart from being worrying for Indonesia, it does...
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Jump to postI still don't understand the slow descent... It's a failure point in terms of risk. Surely just pointing down would have been more likely?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/777Jet" class="quote" target="_blank">777Jet</a> (<a href="#95" class="quote">Reply 95</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> With the differen...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/777Jet" class="quote" target="_blank">777Jet</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Have you read manda...
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Jump to postAgain, probably optical illusion... But that plane looks huge compared to what I it usually does!
It's totally incredible that anybody survived... Amazing, well done to the pilots.
I really wish we could find out why the climb was initiated- that to me seems to be the pivotal, unexplained episode here. I don't think they would climb knowing there was heavy traffic in the area. So why climb at all? ATC did eventually clear them, but by then they weren't able to get a response.
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Jump to postThe MH370 briefing for today had been cancelled, according to some twitter reports- one from Mandala- apparently due to "unforeseen circumstances".
Anyone know anything?
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/aerodog" class="quote" target="_blank">aerodog</a> (<a href="#128" class="quote">Reply 128</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I'm pretty su...
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