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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS - Part 7

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/wilco737" class="quote" target="_blank">wilco737</a> (<a href="#169" class="quote">Reply 169</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table borde...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 4

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/wilco737" class="quote" target="_blank">wilco737</a> (<a href="#125" class="quote">Reply 125</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table borde...

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RE: Germanwings A320 Crashed Enroute BCN-DUS! Part 4

The plane was quite old, I'd say metal fatigue in a window seam or nearby which suddenly broke. The depressurization must have been so fast the crew was incapacitated within few seconds. Just enough to start decent.

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RE: Aircraft That Just Didn't Work Out

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Max+Q" class="quote" target="_blank">Max Q</a> (<a href="#86" class="quote">Reply 86</a>):<br/><i>The A380 for Airbus, a prime example of pursui...

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RE: UK Aviation Chaos Due To 'rogue' Russian Bombers

Glorious News! Soviet Museum Plane Tour 2014-2015 continues!

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RE: Article: How The 777X Will Beat The A350

"Production will begin in 2017, with first delivery of the 777-9X targeted for 2020, with initial deliveries of the -8X following around 18 months later. " Paper plane vs. real plane. A350 will be also improved a lot by 2022 (the usual production delay added to the Boeing <acronym title="Philippine ...

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RE: Airbus Might Have Found Another A380 Buyer

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/G500" class="quote" target="_blank">G500</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>Looks like Airbus might have convinced or e...

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RE: Why Isn't Finnair Buying From Mighty B Anymore?

Well, the way Putin is behaving, soon there will be no overflights over Russia and there goes the Finnair's vital routes. They have tried every trick on the book to save money, fired tons of people and outsourced everything they can think of, but still having losses in almost every quarter. They wil...

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NY Times On The 380: Oversize Expectations Part 1

Every single year since 2001 Airbus has received more A380 orders unlike the 787 lemon. There is a steady demand for this plane.

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RE: Rumor:DL Will Be 1st US Carrier To Own A380 Part 2

USA is a small, irrelevant sideshow for A380. About as important as Finnair is to Airbus. Maybe they will sell few A380 planes to USA eventually but that would be like nice to have, extra bonus. Asia with over ten times more people is the important one. Asians are starting to earn enough money per c...

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RE: Spiegel A350 Piece: Fewer Problems Than 787

The reason 787 program has been so f*cked up is that the Boeing management started huge organizational change with extreme outsourcing on top of tons of new technologies and wanted both cheap. So no wonder the original 6 billion dollar budget mushroomed into 32 billion dollars. Now the management wa...

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RE: Spiegel A350 Piece: Fewer Problems Than 787

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/airmagnac" class="quote" target="_blank">airmagnac</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i>Apples to oranges...different kind of ...

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RE: The A380 Without Emirates. Would It Exist?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/redflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">redflyer</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>The A380 would still be a financial fail...

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RE: Emirates Sees A380 Upgrade

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Revelation" class="quote" target="_blank">Revelation</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i> The program is already a money lose...

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RE: Emirates Sees A380 Upgrade

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/AirFRNT" class="quote" target="_blank">AirFRNT</a> (<a href="#29" class="quote">Reply 29</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emir...

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RE: LH Removing A380 From JNB Route

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PEK777" class="quote" target="_blank">PEK777</a> (<a href="#47" class="quote">Reply 47</a>):<br/><i>Not all that surprising. The markets have sh...

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RE: And Now We Are Down To Just 4x Pax. MD11

It is kind of ironic, 15 year old car is junk while 20 year old plane still is quite valuable and 30 year old plane still has some value.

[Edited 2014-04-07 03:51:53]

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 50

With slight modification of the assumed flight path it is like a mirror image of the normal flight path to Beijing. I posted the link in reply 131.

Any 777 pilots, could this mirror image flight path be inputted accidentally? Assuming the pilots were then incapacitated due to hypoxia for example.

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 50

A wrong sign theory, already discussed? "Essence of the theory: The aircraft navigation and autopilot system was temporarily re-programmed from its original destination, Beijing. This may have been due to any number of causes. Until the black box is found it will be pure speculation as to why this w...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 47

Roaring Forties and then Screaming Sixties there with 15 meter waves. Task of finding any debris is pretty much hopeless.

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 47

"Skynews: Missing Plane: Image Shows Objects In Sea."

The sky is blue too. Thanks for the info

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 43

Transponder requires 200 watts but your typical Inmarsat handset only about 6 watts. So that could be the way to create alternative path for location info.

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 43

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Kaiarahi" class="quote" target="_blank">Kaiarahi</a> (<a href="#118" class="quote">Reply 118</a>):<br/><i>ACARS sent nothing. It was disabled (n...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 43

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DeltaMD90" class="quote" target="_blank">DeltaMD90</a> (<a href="#113" class="quote">Reply 113</a>):<br/><i>Don't mean to be rude, but you don't...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 43

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Starlionblue" class="quote" target="_blank">Starlionblue</a> (<a href="#101" class="quote">Reply 101</a>):<br/><i>One flight in a billion may be...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 43

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Starlionblue" class="quote" target="_blank">Starlionblue</a> (<a href="#99" class="quote">Reply 99</a>):<br/><i>We may be progressing towards th...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 43

One thing is clear, we treat oceans as our personal junkyard

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 43

So the pinging in black boxes works for 30 days, right? So they got 15 days to go. “It certainly depends on the location,” Sarah McComb, chief of the recorders division at the National Transportation Safety Board, said Tuesday. “I don’t think the range is quite five to 10 miles, but there are a lot ...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 42

"Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein announced the finding after being handed a note during a press briefing where he expressed concern about a category one cyclone forming the Indian Ocean near Australia’s remote Christmas Island." Soon they will be very lucky if they someday ...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 42

Australians are dropping a lot of sonar buoys so any submarine would not be that useful for listening.

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 34

Pretty hopeless to find it that far away in ocean unless they find that 30 day black box ping sound in time. They might someday find some piece of debris thousands of kilometers away washed onshore. The bodies are by now fish food.

[Edited 2014-03-18 02:00:09]

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 34

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Starlionblue" class="quote" target="_blank">Starlionblue</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>230000 square miles - 600000 sq....

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 31

Well, if you planned to do the heist of the century by hijacking and flying low and fast between mountains, the super enthuastic and very experienced pilot/instructor/inspector with the simulator at home would be your go-to guy.

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 31

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/hivue" class="quote" target="_blank">hivue</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i>So the flying into space theory was right afte...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 26

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SLCGuy" class="quote" target="_blank">SLCGuy</a> (<a href="#41" class="quote">Reply 41</a>):<br/><i> If so, what's the possibility of this being...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 25

I assume, they got signal to noise level numbers from pings, then figured out the satellite position and drew a coverage map. Then found out two paths with similar predicted signal to noise figures within that coverage map.

[Edited 2014-03-15 00:16:38]

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 25

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/JimJupiter" class="quote" target="_blank">JimJupiter</a> (<a href="#71" class="quote">Reply 71</a>):<br/><i>My problem with the hijacking theori...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 25

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/spacecadet" class="quote" target="_blank">spacecadet</a> (<a href="#41" class="quote">Reply 41</a>):<br/><i>Also, ACARS was "switched off" *befo...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 24

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/spacecadet" class="quote" target="_blank">spacecadet</a> (<a href="#421" class="quote">Reply 421</a>):<br/><i>Did they? </i></font></td></tr></t...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 24

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jetfuel" class="quote" target="_blank">jetfuel</a> (<a href="#414" class="quote">Reply 414</a>):<br/><i>Going out on a very wide tangent here bu...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 24

They had plenty of fuel to reach north-west Australia. This latest info just does not make any sense! Unless they flew so low and fast that the fuel consumption skyrocketed?

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 24

My theory is that something hit the cockpit window (meteroid one in millions chance but still possible) and caused it to shatter. The pilots tried to descent, turn and change the transponder code to emergency but accidentally knocked it to standby. Just before they passed out, they managed to set th...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 24

Somebody in NYtimes comments mentioned that the way the plane supposedly behaved, sudden altitude changes, would be like a passenger without any pilot background trying desperately to fly the plane. So my questions are: How hard it would be to fly this plane and how hard it would be to try to use th...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 21

Bodies stay underwater at salty warm waters at sea for about 4-10 days before starting to float due to gasses produced inside the body. The warmer water temperature, the more faster the process. So this could help a bit in searching.

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 20

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/gr325" class="quote" target="_blank">gr325</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i> Dont want to sound stupid, but couldnt that b...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 20

There is one possible sighting via Tomnod (article in Finnish) : <a href="http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/Tutkija+ar...+kadonnut+lentokone/a1394680271317" target="_blank">http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/Tutkija+ar...+kadonnut+lentokone/a1394680271317</a> The photo looks very interesting, does not resemble ship ...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 19

China is acting like a bullyboy in South China Sea and the mutual distrust among the nine nations involved is quite an issue, especially when dealing with the Chinese. So any sharing of primary radar images, that are military secrets, is out of question. Asian cultures are also very different than w...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 16

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/nupogodi" class="quote" target="_blank">nupogodi</a> (<a href="#154" class="quote">Reply 154</a>):<br/><i>I am sorry your news outlets are so ba...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 16

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/nupogodi" class="quote" target="_blank">nupogodi</a> (<a href="#139" class="quote">Reply 139</a>):<br/><i>They're not trying to trip anyone up, ...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 16

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SQ452" class="quote" target="_blank">SQ452</a> (<a href="#133" class="quote">Reply 133</a>):<br/><i>You know after watching the press conference...

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