missing plane

[cromwell]

This just gets stranger and stranger.

[Workingman]

IF the aircraft "pinged" a satellite at 08:11, local, that information was known at-the-time. It could (should) have been passed on immediately, but for some reason it was not. The satellite operator would know to within a few metres the position of its satellite when the ping was received and could have worked out an approximate location of the sender based on signal strength. If it had received two pings, over time, it could use triangulation to give a more accurate position.

The Chinese reported a heading of 330 in the first few days of the emergency, a similar N'west heading to that of the satellite, but it seemed to have got lost in the confusion.

The two pieces of information tend to point North rather than "anywhere" on a 4,000 mile track from above the Himalayas to the Antarctic ocean.

My opinion is that we are not, and have not been, told anything like the truth.

[victor]

My opinion is that we are not, and have not been, told anything like the truth.--you old cynic -just like me!!

[Aggers]

Curiouser and curioser

[debih]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... omite.html

I tend to take what the DM says with a pinch of salt but here's their theory.

[KateLMead]

Evidently the pilot was an absolute fanatic politically... Why aren't these individuals checked out, and why aren't they, if found to have
Fanatical inclinations in whatever area refused a pilots licence.Shah was known to the police due to his associates and political affiliations. I would have thought this news would have come to light before now. Enough to put one off of flying for life...

[Workingman]

This tragedy has turned into the worst kind of farce due to the lack of or delayed information and the misinformation given out at the time of the event. Just about every believable scenario has now been played out, it's now moving on to the realms of Debih's 'Little Green Aliens' or Blofeld and SPECTRE.

[Aggers]

This tragedy has turned into the worst kind of farce due to the lack of or delayed information and the misinformation given out at the time of the event. Just about every believable scenario has now been played out, it's now moving on to the realms of Debih's 'Little Green Aliens' or Blofeld and SPECTRE.

It's hard to visualise a tragedy turning into a farce, Frank, but I know what you mean.

It is almost inconceivable that this scenario could take place in this technological age.

One wonders just what trauma the passengers are going through.

[Workingman]

Because we are surrounded by digital/electronic gadget technology we tend to think of it as the norm: it is not. The vast majority of the planet lives mainly outside of our technological bubbles, to those people even Victorian technology would be an advance.

It is a falsehood to pretend that technology knows everything about everything all of the time..... comforting as that might sometimes seem - frightening at others.

That plane could be anywhere: from the depths of the Indian ocean to the jungles of Burma to the high mountains of the Himalayas, we simply do not know.

[moondancer]

That plane could be anywhere: from the depths of the Indian ocean to the jungles of Burma to the high mountains of the Himalayas, we simply do not know.

No Frank, I can safely say that it is not in our back garden.

I've looked carefully and there is no sign of it at all.