<p>Doesn’t seem eventful at all. But I wouldn’t mind reading the actual version of it.</p>
<p>Perhaps when they run out of false leads to publish, someone will publish the original pre-translated English version of the transcript. </p>
<p>It is very scary that till date nothing is found. Yesterday news says debris of MH370 is found in Australia coastal area.</p>
<p>It clearly indicate something sad with plane and boarding people.</p>
<p>more info - <a href=“News for Malaysia plane crash - Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: | ManagementPedia.com - Business Management & Strategy Forum”>http://www.managementparadise.com/forums/general-talks/237471-news-malaysia-plane-crash-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-a.html</a> </p>
<p>I think it was suicide. </p>
<p>My guess:<br>
When the plane was being handed off from Malaysia airspace to Vietnam airspace, Capt probably told the F.O. he had to take a whizz, got out of his seat, then took the cockpit ax and killed the F.O. while F.O. was strapped in his seat. So easy… Then he shut off the communications systems & shut off the entertainment system so the px wouldn’t be able to see the flight path on their personal video screens. </p>
<p>Then he put on his mask and pulled the circuit for the oxygen feed to the cabin oxygen masks and reset the cabin altitude to slowly bleed the cabin pressure. Everyone in the back asphyxiates. The F.A.s have pressurized bottles of oxygen, but once that is exhausted, the F.A.s asphyxiate too.</p>
<p>Then he points the plane towards the middle of the southern Indian Ocean where the water is rough & deep to hide his crime. </p>
<p>Possible, but hard to see what the motive is, and why do it in a way that takes hundreds of others with you. It would be interesting to know what the pilots life insurance situation was, and if it had changed in any way over the past couple of years. </p>
<p>I’m thinking the most recent news this morning indicates that they are about to confirm the crash site, and that the news about the lithium batteries on board may give strong support to the fire theory of what happened. We’ll see. I think without the black box you don’t have much. And I guess even if they do find it, there won’t be any pilot conversations on it because its a loop that records over everything thats older than the last 30 minutes or so (not sure of the time limit, but if the pilots were incapacitated for hours, then the recorder would have simply recorded silence over their last actual comments). </p>
<p>Unbelievable. Malaysia Airlines notified the families via text message.</p>
<p>Text message? Why not at least a phone call, if not personal visits, at least to the families nearby? Aren’t most of the camped out in hotels near the airport?</p>
<p>Couple of questions about those theories. I wish I knew about the 777, but is there actually a separate system for crew and passenger oxygen masks? That doesn’t seem likely, he would be shutting off the entire system. However, he could use a walkaround oxygen bottle, which they certainly have in the cockpit, though it doesn’t have an extended oxygen supply period. Then he could repressurize the airplane, turn the oxygen masks back on again. I just think that’s an awful lot of thinking about how you are going to kill people, and so many hours to keep flying. He could have just rolled and pulled right before landing, or drug a wingtip during landing. So much effort to commit mass murder, he would have to be a psychopath, not doing something spontaneous.</p>
<p>I also really doubt the fire theory. I don’t know how smoke can incapacitate the pilots (and it must have also incapacitated the cabin crew, otherwise they would have gone in the cockpit), and fire not consume the aircraft. Once you have a fire, you just don’t have much time to land. You can’t keep flying for several hours. There was a flight engineer onboard that airplane, and certainly someone who knew how to fly, even if the cockpit crew was incapacitated. Lithium batteries, I consider to be our biggest threat. Often these are not declared. But you don’t have much time in that case.</p>
<p>I heard something a little while ago that just in the last month, there had been a 777 bulletin that went out about watching out for minor cracks in the airplane that could depressurize the airplane. I don’t know how much validity there is in that report. And how the transponder/ACARS failure could play into that. I really hope they find the black boxes so the families can get some answers.</p>
<p>Really tacky to notify the families things by text.</p>
<p>Interesting that Inmarsat deduced the southern trajectory by analyzing doppler frequency changes in the pings which were picked up by the moving satellite. Very clever.</p>
<p>Physics is your friend!</p>
<p>I’m a little surprised that the data received was recorded in such a way that they could deduce that. Pretty interesting. Is this all related to the Rolls Royce engine data transmissions? </p>
<p>“Text message? Why not at least a phone call, if not personal visits, at least to the families nearby? Aren’t most of the camped out in hotels near the airport?”</p>
<p>I think text or email is the fairest way to do the notifications. Yes, a little impersonal, but everyone can be notified at once instead of telling one family and the rest finding out from Twitter/Facebook!</p>
<p>When you get that kind of news I doubt it matters how it is delivered really - just get it done!</p>
<p>
If a suicidal pilot wanted to ensure no one could confirm it was a deliberate act, then best to put the plane where it would be difficult to find the black boxes: in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Ditching in the Gulf of Thailand would be a bad strategy, because the gulf is so shallow.</p>
<p>Ironic that 4 days before the plane went missing, The Economist had an article in its Gulliver column on “How to hijack a plane”
<a href=“How to hijack a plane”>http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2014/03/air-security</a>
The article discusses how reinforced cockpit doors, post 9/11, have inadvertently made it easier to hijack a plane.</p>
<p>Two-man cockpits also make it easier for one pilot to incapacitate the other. The infamous suicidal pilot in the Federal Express Flight 705 incident had to subdue 3 crew in the cockpit.</p>
<p>According to the NYT:</p>
<p>“Shortly before the prime minister spoke at 10 p.m. local time, Malaysia Airlines officials informed the relatives of the missing passengers and crew gathered at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur, and sent text messages to those who were elsewhere.”</p>
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<p>So only those not at the hotel were informed by text. </p>
<p>“Two-man cockpits also make it easier for one pilot to incapacitate the other. The infamous suicidal pilot in the Federal Express Flight 705 incident had to subdue 3 crew in the cockpit.”</p>
<p>Auburn Calloway will never see the light of day out of prison, thank God, and his family will never collect the life insurance he was going for. It’s a miracle the crew survived, and managed to subdue him, but none of them ever regained their flying status with the airline (after being hit in the head with a hammer).</p>
<p>Does make you wonder if they’ve checked out whether any of the crew or passengers have recently taken out a large life insurance policy on themselves.</p>
<p>bd, out of curiosity, do pilots ever have to go through evaluations to test/monitor their mental health? </p>
<p>Story from the AP. Tested when hired but not subsequently apparently.</p>
<p><a href=“Airline security: What if pilot’s psyche is the problem?”>Airline security: What if pilot’s psyche is the problem?;
<p>romani, I can tell you a few tidbits just from my experience. When I interviewed with American, they put us through a psych eval and testing, none of which seemed remarkable, just a little weird (I no longer work for them, furloughed decades ago). At my current airline, occasionally I have heard of a case where someone (who everyone knew was pretty nuts) was directed to a doctor for mental evaluation. He no longer works there. I don’t think there’s any airline that has anything more than initial testing, and if something seems really off, a directed mental evaluation. It would have to be pretty bad, I think. Everyone knows who the nuts and jerks are, but they aren’t necessarily the ones who would be suicidal. If fact, I heard one of our well known jerks has been on tv as an “expert witness” lately. </p>
<p>To add to that, the article annoyingdad posted looks about right, though I just skimmed it.</p>
<p>And the TSA confiscates nail clippers from pilots…</p>
<p>I guess they think we can cause harm with those clippers. We could threaten the flight attendants with a bad manicure. Just think of the damage I could do with my curling iron, give them a really bad hair day.</p>