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Helios Airways Flight 522 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is what most likely happened based on the available information and how pilots are trained to react in such situations.
Now the question is why or how.
This doesn't explain why 370 switched directions, assuming that the wreckage in the Indian Ocean is indeed from the plane.
Now if they then loose conscious like the rest of the plane, then the plane will continue to fly on the last plotted course until it runs out of fuel..
No, it doesn't. If they were aiming for the nearest air port, it wouldn't have flown out towards the Indian Ocean. Helios 522 entered into a holding pattern once it reached it's destination; and did so until it crashed. Had the same thing happened to 370, it would've done the same.
It also doesn't explain why the transponder was turned off.
A group of family of the passengers on the aircraft is now calling Malaysia murderers. If they did anything wrong, it was not to involve the U.S. in the search asap.
No, it doesn't. If they were aiming for the nearest air port, it wouldn't have flown out towards the Indian Ocean.
Helios 522 entered into a holding pattern once it reached it's destination; and did so until it crashed. Had the same thing happened to 370, it would've done the same.
It also doesn't explain why the transponder was turned off.
If they did anything wrong, it was not to involve the U.S. in the search asap.
And as it is pointing twoards pilot invovlement, that question get insane. I used to work at an airport. International flagship airlines were crewed by the best and the brightest and.... had the hottest flight attendants- hands down. (these airlines are quasi official ambassadors for their nations).
I bet the crews are well paid, screened for emotional problems, financial problems, religous and political extremism etc. when hired, and then constantly re-investigated for any of those things. Search warrants in say Malaysia, for these investigations are easy to obtain. For fear of the police, neighbors dont cover for you. Any hint of trouble gets you fired, with no endless court appeals about fairness.
Helios Airways Flight 522 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is what most likely happened based on the available information and how pilots are trained to react in such situations.
I've seen variations of that scenario discussed, but I can't get passed the fact that the crew didn't send out any kind of distress call. If they turned to go toward an airport they would have at least radioed the airport to get clearance. There were other planes up there.
I've seen variations of that scenario discussed, but I can't get passed the fact that the crew didn't send out any kind of distress call. If they turned to go toward an airport they would have at least radioed the airport to get clearance. There were other planes up there.
Unless it ran out of fuel. What proof that they have that the transponder was turned off? I'd say, at this point, none. Could have been a massive electrical failure.
Yes it would. If you had studied the situation, the only airport it could land was the one it came from, hence the turn is very logical, and the direction is logical.
Sigh.. the key is not the freaking holding pattern, but the fact that the passengers and crew were knocked out... and letting the auto-pilot fly till the plane ran out of fuel.. THAT is the point I was making.
Fire.
Electronical failure.
A mistake, the buttons are close to others. If there was a decompression, then fog will be generated along with high sounds (your ear drums basically pop), and hitting the wrong button in the chaos is relatively easy.
It almost seems that American's want this to be some sort of terror instead of mechanical failure... protecting Boeing?
Bull****. If you pay someone enough $, you can make them do anything.
The pilot was most likely paid by terrorists or some govt. w/a nefarious agenda to commandeer the plane and take it off course and land somewhere else. That's the only logical explanation given the evidence.
Now the question is why or how.
Unless it ran out of fuel. What proof that they have that the transponder was turned off? I'd say, at this point, none. Could have been a massive electrical failure.
Possibly, but those motivated by money are usually very interested in being able to spend the money they receive as payment. Once those pilots took the plane of course, the odds of them surviving and remaining free to spend their ill gotten gains was practically zero.
Do you understand what holding pattern is? If 370 had tried to get back to it's own airport, then that's where it would've crashed. It wouldn't have flown all the way to the Indian Ocean.
If it had caught on fire near Malaysia, it wouldn't have stayed in the air until it reached the Indian Ocean.
We know there were pings coming off the plane from an automated satellite system. Probably wouldn't have happened if there had been an electronic failure.
First off, the transponder on a Boeing is a button, it's a switch that you can move to different positions if you want to change it. Second, these aren't blind idiots we're talking about. These are trained pilots who wouldn't have just blindly smashed every button, switch, and dial in hopes of something fixing whatever problem they were having.
Oh, shut up.
If they had put the coordinates then they would have flown right towards the airport but thats not what happened. The official investigation already told us that the turning off of the transponder was intentional so youre just making things up now.And do you understand that the pilots might have lost conciousness while trying to get to the nearest airport? If they did not manage to get the last sets of co-ordinates input into the computer?
Apparently youre not doing any math because the plane flew on for hours which would not have happened if there was a fire. Fire also needs oxygen and will not happen if the plane flies too high to knock everyone out according to your crazy theory.PeteEU said:Fire needs oxygen, and can be put out.. but the damage remains. Unconscious crew and passengers, damaged plane.... you do the math.
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