Malaysia says engine phoning home was false. U.S. and Rolls Royce say the engine phoning home was true.
Malaysia says engine phoning home was false. U.S. and Rolls Royce say the engine phoning home was true.
Dr. Hess wrote: Malaysia says engine phoning home was false. U.S. and Rolls Royce say the engine phoning home was true.
Ok, I had heard this morning that RR was denying it too! This is just a berkeleyed up mess for information.
Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this for the next 50 years.
Yes everyone's denying it, but the news channels aren't letting silly things like facts get in the way 
Lucas doesn't make the engine controls do they?
I am guessing this plane met the same fate as the ones that allegedly struck the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. Someone probably botched up the explosives on the target in Moscow which would have given the Russians a convenient excuse to invade the Ukraine.
Wally wrote: I am guessing this plane met the same fate as the ones that allegedly struck the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. Someone probably botched up the explosives on the target in Moscow which would have given the Russians a convenient excuse to invade the Ukraine.
YOu left the smilies out right?
In reply to Adrian_Thompson:
Does it matter?
In reply to Adrian_Thompson:
Maybe I did. If the weather is nice next week I will try to pass this along to some of the conspiracy nuts that come talk to me at work. Last year I got a few to buy into my story that the Statue of Liberty is a fake.
I suspect the Klingons.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/16/israel-s-secret-iran-attack-plan-electronic-warfare.html
HappyAndy wrote: At this point the "Lost" island is more and more plausible by the day.
Alright, I really am going with this now.
Anyone guessed Langoliers yet?
Anti-stance wrote:HappyAndy wrote: At this point the "Lost" island is more and more plausible by the day.Alright, I really am going with this now.
Or it's the most ill conceived viral marketing campaign ever for "Lost-the movie"
In reply to JThw8:
That's it!!!
If it was aliens I hope when they beam it back they leave it somewhere really inconvenient like in the Capitol lobby to show they have a sense of humor.
I can not believe that not one of you know what happened to this plane!
It is obvious that the pilot engaged the Improbability Drive!
From the BBC: "In an echo of claims made in the Wall Street Journal earlier on Thursday that the plane transmitted engine data for hours after the plane disappeared, US officials briefed on the search told Associated Press that Boeing systems on the plane also sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing.
The Boeing 777-200 was not transmitting data to the satellite, but was instead sending out a signal to establish contact, said the official, who was not named.
If true, it could suggest the aircraft was still flying.
Boeing offers a satellite service that can receive a stream of data during flight on how the aircraft is functioning. Malaysia Airlines did not subscribe to that service, but the plane was still automatically sending pings to the satellite, the official said."
Hmm I guess it is possible that hijackers landed it at the mother of all airstrips and now don't know what to do next...but getting it off the ground again would take 6 digits in fuel, if it doesn't need any other service.
I still think the oil slick found on the flight path hours after the plane went missing, combined with the report of a crashed plane from the oil rig worker is too much of a coincidence.
If they took it someplace remote for later use, where are they gonna get fuel for it? Filling up is around 45000 gallons of jet fuel, which will get you 7700 miles. 4-5 tanker trucks of jet fuel don't disappear unnoticed.
So you don't think they landed this thing in a wheat field and pulled branches over it to hide it?
Our spy satellites have found it, but we cant say where it is, as it would show our hand... 
I have a couple questions:
Is it possible that the transponder info disappeared because the plane flew out of range of the radar instead of "being turned off, etc"?
townsend7 wrote: From the BBC:The Boeing 777-200 was not transmitting data to the satellite, but was instead sending out a signal to establish contact, said the official, who was not named.
So it was "pinging the satellite" and not sending data? Is it possible that the transmitter was attached to a piece of wreckage floating around that took 4 hours to sink?
I have not seen a reasonable answer to either of these questions addressed in the news yet.
In reply to Hal:
No.
Transponders forward a plane's position, altitude, and call sign.
If it had been floating around on a piece of wreckage, it would squawked an altitude of 0.
Additionally, it's position would have remained very still (only changing by tides and/or winds). An airspeed of 0 knots would have also been an indicator that it was not attached to a moving 777.
I was listening to a military guy on the radio today. He cleared up one point for me, which is the transponder shutting off. Apparently the transponder can be controlled from the flight deck, and it is quite typical for the tower to request it be shut off when there is too much clutter on the controllers radar screen.
Doesn't explain WHY it was shut off, just that it can be...
Wait...
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/for/4370884298.html
Nmna.
In reply to xflowgolf:
Why don't you have a seat other there, the NSA has a couple of questions.
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