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re: Was Malaysia Arlines flight MH370 a terrorist attack?
Posted on 3/8/14 at 7:50 pm to ChineseBandit58
Posted on 3/8/14 at 7:50 pm to ChineseBandit58
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Possibly, but there should be some sort of manual backup to allow a controlled descent.
If all electronics are out, what would a manual backup allow you to do?
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Posted on 3/8/14 at 7:50 pm to Lsupimp
Someone will post something tomorrow about a banker or bitcoin person being on this flight. It is just the PT way. It has to happen.
Posted on 3/8/14 at 7:53 pm to Stingray
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If all electronics are out, what would a manual backup allow you to do?
I cannot imagine the details - but I would think there should be some sort of backup system to cope with a momentary loss of power.
Perhaps they should have some hardened electronics that could survive an EMP.
I am not conversant with this stuff, so I don't want to speculate further.
EMP sounds like a plausible explanation to me.
Posted on 3/8/14 at 7:55 pm to lsutothetop
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KILLuminati Masons brought it down for the NWO
I will neither confirm nor deny this. X
Posted on 3/8/14 at 8:44 pm to trackfan
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New terror method tested? Maybe no one would claim responsibility.
Do you remember the Islamist terrorist plot to bring down 11 trans-Pacific flights in the mid 90's? They first tested a bomb on a Philippine Airlines 747. The bomb exploded killing one passenger but the pilots were successful in controlling the aircraft and landing it safely in Japan. The masterminds, Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, did not claim responsibility because it was a test run for a much larger terrorist attack. This was the begining of what eventually evolved into the 9-11-01 attack.
the Bojinka plot
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Posted on 3/8/14 at 9:23 pm to Lsupimp
If Obama wasn't such a pussy, those people would be alive today.
Posted on 3/8/14 at 9:26 pm to VOR
Put the bong up and go to bed. 
Posted on 3/8/14 at 10:56 pm to Jbird
Except that it was mostly Chinese on the flight
Posted on 3/8/14 at 11:09 pm to Lsupimp
No one is taking credit.
Posted on 3/8/14 at 11:42 pm to Lsupimp
I fricking hate hearing about airline crashes.
As safe as air travel is, when one goes awry it always unsettles me. Can't imagine being affected by it.
As safe as air travel is, when one goes awry it always unsettles me. Can't imagine being affected by it.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 12:16 am to VOR
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If Obama wasn't such a pussy
Well he is a pussy but what does it have to do with a plane crash?
Posted on 3/9/14 at 9:28 am to Enadious
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quote: The total loss of electrical equipment would prevent signals about a problem, but the plane is designed to still fly under those circumstances, Marks said.
Does he mean fly like the engines would still work or does he mean fly like a slow glide into the ocean?
Posted on 3/9/14 at 9:31 am to Stingray
Fly as in go up, down, left and right.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 9:34 am to Jbird
The flight control system for the Boeing 777 airplane is a Fly-By-Wire (FBW) system. The FBW system must meet extremely high levels of functional integrity and availability. The heart of the FBW concept is the use of triple redundancy for all hardware resources: computing system, airplane electrical power, hydraulic power and communication path. The Primary Flight Computer (PFC) is the central computation element of the FBW system. The triple modular redundancy (TMR) concept also applies to the PFC architectural design.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 9:48 am to Jbird
Phantom guys used to joke about F-16 pilots not actually being in control. A Viper pilot only "votes," and if the HAL 9000 agrees it will make the plane do what you request.
Here's a good example of the computer overriding pilot inputs.
They had the throttles firewalled, and were hauling back on the joysticks, but the computer said "NO."
Call me old fashioned, but I like a stick/yoke that's connected to hydraulic valves or cables, not copper wiring.
Here's a good example of the computer overriding pilot inputs.
They had the throttles firewalled, and were hauling back on the joysticks, but the computer said "NO."
Call me old fashioned, but I like a stick/yoke that's connected to hydraulic valves or cables, not copper wiring.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 9:55 am to son of arlo
The best part of the Viper flight controls IMO was if you left go of the stick the FLCC figures you GLOC'd so it would put you into straight and level flight. A guy I know departed flight and finally on his HUD tape you heard him say "let go of the stick stupid" a second or two later, straight and level just as advertised.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:17 am to Jbird
As I said, call me old fashioned. I like round dials and would rather be physically in control instead of just going along for the ride. 
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:37 am to son of arlo
quote:The Viper wasn't really that bad as far as limiters. But I get what you are saying.
I like round dials and would rather be physically in control instead of just going along for the ride
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:45 am to navy
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Can we rule out a youtube video? What difference, at this point, does it make?
I chuckled
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