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re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:20 am to Htown Tiger
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:20 am to Htown Tiger
Not only is it weird to wait until now, but the Strait of Malacca is one of if not the most traveled sea lanes in the world. A ship would have come upon wreckage by now.
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Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:20 am to tgrgrd00
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Malaysian military now reveals it tracked MH370 to Malacca straits
What took so long.....somethings up
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:22 am to TigerDog83
Wooooooooow! Those chicks are MEGA hot!
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:22 am to Cooter Davenport
Have they said how much fuel was on the plane when it left? I assume that plane has a long range.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:25 am to Cooter Davenport
Any word from Indonesia? If it got all the way back to the strait, surely somebody on the coast saw it on radar. Or maybe it crossed back onto land....
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:27 am to Chicken
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Have they said how much fuel was on the plane when it left? I assume that plane has a long range.
Not sure, but looking on the map to where Beijing is located the plane had the range to make it a long way from where it was lost.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:29 am to TigerDog83
I read that it has a range of 5,235 to 9,380 nautical miles.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:30 am to Chicken
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I read that it has a range of 5,235 to 9,380 nautical miles.
that's a lot of fuel
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:30 am to Chicken
7.5 hours worth.
that's why I have been saying it had enough fuel to get to the middle east.
7.5 x 600mph = 4500 miles
i'd take 500 miles to be safe, but still. that's far.
that's why I have been saying it had enough fuel to get to the middle east.
7.5 x 600mph = 4500 miles
i'd take 500 miles to be safe, but still. that's far.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:32 am to TheDoc
A 777-200 ER as a range of roughly 8,800 of our miles. That's nuts. New York to LA is 2,400, for reference.
This post was edited on 3/11/14 at 9:33 am
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:32 am to BigEdLSU
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Had a pilot say in this thread yesterday you could only disable it from the ground.
Mind listing your experience? Seems like terrorism if your version is accurate.
You can turn it off, or squawk new settings from the cockpit. Like in VFR you squawk 1200, but if say I was flying from MSY to BTR. I may ask for flight following, MSY assigns me 1435 so I squawk that, then when I leave the class Bravo airspace around NOLA I get handed off to Houston Center, and squawk 1350 or whatever they ask until I enter BTR's class charlie airspace and then they ask me to squawk something new.
So it's constantly changeable. US law only requires use of a transponder within 30 miles of class bravo air space (around most US cities)
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:36 am to Cooter Davenport
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A 777-200 ER as a range of roughly 8,800 of our miles. That's nuts. New York to LA is 2,400, for reference.
yep, lot of fuel... possibilities are pretty expansive
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:37 am to TigerHam85
Even if it didn't have a full tank and only had FUEL for 4,500 miles, consider that Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is 4,362... so it could have definitely flown to the Middle East, or all sorts of other places.
This post was edited on 3/11/14 at 9:39 am
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:41 am to Cooter Davenport
Assuming they flew much lower which the reports indicate, he wouldn't have the full range.
Could the plane have been gliding after losing power?
Could the plane have been gliding after losing power?
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:42 am to Cooter Davenport
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Saudi Arabia is 4,362... so it could have definitely flown to the Middle East, or all sorts of other places.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:43 am to au21tigers
Straights of Malacca? That's pirate territory
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:44 am to Golfer
if it went down in the Bay of Bengal, it'll be much more difficult to find. avg depth is 8,500ft and it gets 1,000 miles wide.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:46 am to TigerHam85
Seems like the sudden catastrophic breakup scenario is out of the window now if the plane veered several hundred miles off course. So that makes it seem like terrorism or pilot incapacitation/suicide are the more likely alternatives.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:46 am to Golfer
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Could the plane have been gliding after losing power?
I don't think planes that big can glide far if at all.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 9:47 am to AngryBeavers
Wouldn't people have called with their cell phones to contacts if they were drifting for hours off course? Maybe they were all incapacitated somehow?
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