[breaking] Malaysian Airlines loses contact with Beijing-bound flight, 239 on board

Malaysian officials deny the report that engines sent data. If those engines were leased I am sure rolls Royce or GE would want to know how much those engines were being used.

 

What the hell do these morons even know about something like this? How would they know whether they sent data or not...

 

I bet the NSA knows something...

 

Where does the transmitted engine data go? Boeing? The company that created the engine? The data is either there or it is not, if it turns out the data does exist, the Malaysian government would look like even bigger fools.

 

theme park?
frat party prop?

So, you want to steal a plane... and you choose to do so with the inconvenience of 239 passengers who you either have to feed, or kill. Makes a lot of sense.

I would think there are easier ways to steal a flipping plane but maybe not. Happy to say I have never spent time scheming such a thing.

If a plane was stolen out of the sky like that, in real life, it's just too James Bond-ish, and it makes Bane's whole plane invasion seem even more crazy and inefficient.

 

I seriously feel that the other major countries with decent technology/intellegence (China, Japan, US) all know a lot more than is being reported (even if its simple clear satellite imagery), but nobody wants to let the others know what type of "toys" each of them has.

Meanwhile, Malaysia is bringing in Shamans and denying everything...

 

Aliens.

 

Lol at China's faulty intelligence

 

This is ridiculous. We're at the point where every single report or rumor is immediately contradicted somehow.

 

I laughed.

 

I believe it goes directly to Rolls Royce, who manufactured/designed the engines. I heard that Malaysian Airlines was sharing data with Rolls Royce, but not with Boeing. I assume they meant they weren't giving Boeing the data from the Rolls Royce engines, but that both Boeing and Rolls Royce were sending data to them.

 

For those who suspect terrorism, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-flight-MH370-jet-brought-shoe-bomber.html


Apparently the convicted Shoe Bomber plotter in the UK said he gave a Malaysian terror cells explosives/instructions, also said the cell involved a pilot. Probably talking out his ass, but nonetheless that's his story.

If those large pieces were the plane, it pretty much eliminates the possibility of catastrophic damage at high altitude, or the plane would have been in much smaller pieces.

China is now saying they did not mean to release those sat images? Wtf is going on?!

 

I would have brought in the pally......

 

White House says recent information has opened possibility of a new search area in Indian Ocean for missing airliner.

 

It's looking more and more like a hijacking. The transponder was turned off, no contact from the pilot, flew hours and hours after comm blackout.

PLEASE don't be iranians.

 

I was thinking

Spoiler

 

That isn't really true because there are bigger problems than money. Who is responsible for the data, where is it being sent, chain of custody, usefulness of data transmitted when the plane is working well enough to transmit.

Planes already communicate with ground crews regarding future maintenance issues.

 

1) It's incredibly expensive to add these systems.
2) They aren't necessary considering the amount of flights each year and the amount of crafts lost. The fact that there has been 2 in the last year is an anomaly.
3) It records megabytes of information each SECOND. Sure, some parameters could be sent automatically, but certainly not most of it.
4) The engines, possibly other equipment, already sends real time info to the maintenance crews. Apparently, in this case they stopped receiving feedback shortly before ATC lost contact.

This was an incredibly rare event, despite the media hype.