Missing Malysian Airliner Continued to Fly on For Hours (Confirmed)

PoS said:

Wow, this is getting even more baffling. Looks like the Tom Clancy thriller conspiracies seem to be coming to fruition. My question is why did the airplane manufacturers allow access to the transponders so they can be deactivated? It should be mandatory for all civilian airliners to have a tamper proof transponder so no one will be able to deactivate it unless its on the ground.

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Deuce said:

As a pilot I am going to say no. That is a stupid idea.

Transponders sometimes malfunction and give erroneous data, and need to be shut off so they don't screw with air traffic control radar and a critical piece of safety equipment called TCAS. (a system designed to prevent mid-air collisions) And when that transponder has an electrical problem and the wires start to smoke, I need to shut it off before it starts my avionics on fire.

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PeteEU said:

LOL a daily live press conference debunks it.. watch it tomorrow live if you want. You are spreading rumour, bull**** and out right lies... just like the Chinese satellite pictures supposedly showing wreckage... also bull****, and a waste of time.

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PoS said:

OK, thanks for the heads up, I wasnt aware that they could be a fire hazard or give off bad info. You learn something new every day.

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WCH said:

Same with the crummy Chinese satellite pics that were release days after the fact. One or several entities are hiding something.

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donsutherland1 said:

The media, however, is not under the same kind of pressure that those involved in the investigation are facing. The media is in a stronger position to refrain from disseminating speculative material. It should do so.

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donsutherland1 said:

A scoop infers being first with a credible story. Publishing speculative material that may or may not be reliable isn't really a scoop.

I'm not surprised that the story ran. In an era where journalistic accountability isn't given the emphasis it deserves (something that reflects badly on journalism in general), there will be no consequences for the publication if the story proves false. I highly doubt that the newspaper will even publish a retraction or apology to readers for its inaccurate report. In this environment, the implicit journalistic obligation to test the information and refrain from publishing or reporting material of questionable or worse value is routinely ignored.

The American public (and my guess is that the same holds true for international audiences) has noticed the inaccurate reporting, among other negative outcomes. Two-thirds or more believe that reporting is inaccurate and also that media tries to cover up its mistakes.

http://www.people-press.org/2013/08...iticized-for-accuracy-bias-and-news-judgment/

Omission of a correction should the story in question prove inaccurate would be consistent with covering up mistakes, as the omission would be intended for the public to forget the story, something that can happen quite easily in today's glut of information.

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Manc Skipper said:

maybe a mod could remove the "confirmed" from the thread title, substitute "debunked", or move the thread to "conspiracy theories"

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Manc Skipper said:

It's fake. The engines stopped at 1.07. they didn't fact check even a little bit. Just the normal leel of disinformation to an uncritically accepting drone readership. Mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed a load of bull.....

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A Malaysia Airlines plane was sending signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying, said a U.S. official briefed on the search for the plane.

The Boeing 777-200 wasn't transmitting data to the satellite, but was instead sending out a signal to establish contact, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the situation by name.

Boeing offers a satellite service that can receive a stream of data during flight on how the aircraft is functioning. Malaysia Airlines didn't subscribe to that service, but the plane still had the capability of connecting with the satellite and was automatically sending pings, the official said.

The continuing pings led searchers to believe the plane could have flown more than 1,000 miles beyond its last confirmed sighting on radar, the official said. The plane had enough fuel to fly about four more hours, he said.

Messages involving a different data service also were received from the airliner for a short time after the plane's transponder — a device used to identify the plane to radar — went silent, the official said.

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