It is being reported now that the flight plan diversion was programmed 12 minutes before the co-pilot signed off

All the theories i've head mentioned and I haven't heard anyone mention the obvious.....Desmond forgot to push the button.........

All the theories i've head mentioned and I haven't heard anyone mention the obvious.....Desmond forgot to push the button.........

 

Lost jokes are so 9 days ago.

In case anyone didn't know, there is a reddit thread on this article.

 

What I don't get is what happened to the passengers? If smoke is filling the cabin, don't people pull out phones and make calls or texts? I doubt this entire sequence could happen so fast that everyone was dead before they could attempt a call.

 

If they have cell phones over the open ocean, there aren't going to be any cell towers to get signals from.

Lost jokes are so 9 days ago.

YEP!

 

No, they are on a magical island with a smoke monster.

It's an old joke but I hear the pilot's names were Wi Tu Lo, Sum Tin Wong and Ho Lee Fuk.

Edited March 19, 201412 yr by MexSoxFan#1

It's an old joke but I hear the pilot's names were Wi Tu Lo, Sum Tin Wong and Ho Lee Fuk.

 

The pilots were Malaysian. D-

 

 

I know the LOST jokes are old but LOST was definitely the first thing that went through my mind when I first heard this story.

Australian PM reports they may have found objects related to the search in the Indian Ocean. Maybe the plane went south instead of north.

Theory from a pilots point of view.

 

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

 

Another pilot's rebuttal to this theory:

 

 

http://above70k.blogspot.ca/2014/03/why-st...-is-so.html?m=1

Edited March 20, 201412 yr by LittleHurt05

Still no idea where the plane is, or where to look.

 

 

New reports that debris has been spotted closer to Australia. If that's where they find the plane, crazy that they didn't even think to look the for the first week.

New reports that debris has been spotted closer to Australia. If that's where they find the plane, crazy that they didn't even think to look the for the first week.

Apparently the fact that it's been nearly 2 weeks is enough such that floating debris in this area could have been moved several hundred kilometers by the ocean currents.

 

There is also a potential tropical storm forming on the edge of these possible areas.

New reports that debris has been spotted closer to Australia. If that's where they find the plane, crazy that they didn't even think to look the for the first week.

 

The search area is now the size of the continental United States. To put it into scope, they were looking for Steve Fossett's plane in a MUCH smaller area, on land, and it still took them a year to find it.

New reports that debris has been spotted closer to Australia. If that's where they find the plane, crazy that they didn't even think to look the for the first week.

 

haven't they been spotting debris for a couple of days. still nothing to show for it.

 

haven't they been spotting debris for a couple of days. still nothing to show for it.

By the time debris is "spotted" by a satellite, the images are downlinked, processed, and then recognized and released, the currents have had the chance to move material by 10's of kilometers, and then there's still no guarantee that large floating objects arent' just something broken off of or discarded from a boat in that ocean. Then it takes hours to plan a flight to the area, several hours to get there, and then this area off the coast of Australia is so far out that the planes can only search for a couple hours before they have to turn around.

Watch the debris end up being flotsam and debris from the Japanese earthquake/tsunami

Watch the debris end up being flotsam and debris from the Japanese earthquake/tsunami

(Virtually impossible in this area, fwiw. If you'd gone the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami however...)

Statement just issued to the media and families saying that there is now some confirmation that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean.

Statement just issued to the media and families saying that there is now some confirmation that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean.

 

It's taken so long for them to get all this information and data analyzed correctly. How much time did they spend looking for the plane on the other side of Malaysia and in the northern parts of the ocean.

Finally a few articles pointing out how much crap humans dump in the oceans and how it makes searching difficult.

Finally a few articles pointing out how much crap humans dump in the oceans and how it makes searching difficult.

Waterways have always been the first choice for waste. Back in the day it was factories dumping everything into rivers to wash it away. Now it's just progressed to the oceans because it is so difficult to find anything there.

Plus over half the world's population live within 50 miles of an ocean. The shipping industry is tight lipped about the number because it is bad for business but estimates range from 700 to 10,000 shipping containers (80' x 8' steel) fall overboard every year.

According to something I read a few minutes ago the confirmation came not due to discovery of debris but instead due to a strong satellite lock on the plane showing its position in that ocean.

USA Today reporting that it's believed the pilot was solely responsible for steering the plane off course.