Nbadan
03-11-2014, 12:07 AM
This case just gets weirder and weirder....speculation now is on pilot suicide....but....maybe not...
Massive search for Malaysia plane yields no evidence; experts speculate on pilot suicide
By Chico Harlan and William Wan, Updated: Monday, March 10, 10:08 PM
... In a vacuum of evidence about what went wrong aboard the flight, speculation turned to the possibility of pilot suicide, an extraordinarily rare occurrence.
“You have to ask the question,” said a U.S. aviation official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The Malaysia Airlines flight reportedly was being tracked by radar when its transponder went dark. There were no radio transmissions to indicate that anything was amiss aboard the plane. The transponder signals and radio communication are controlled by the pilot.
There have been two cases in recent years in which a pilot or crew member is believed to have intentionally caused a plane to crash: the disaster involving SilkAir Flight 185, which spiraled into the ground in Indonesia in 1997, killing 97 passengers and seven crew members; and the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which plunged into the Atlantic south of Nantucket in 1999, killing 217 people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/debris-may-be-from-mssing-malaysia-airlines-flight/2014/03/10/2669f16a-a822-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html
The Boeing 777-200ER is equipped with a maintenance computer capable of talking to the ground automatically through short messages known as Acars. In the case of the Malaysia Airlines jet, however, investigators have no evidence to help them discover what happened to the passenger plane, the people...
Massive search for Malaysia plane yields no evidence; experts speculate on pilot suicide
By Chico Harlan and William Wan, Updated: Monday, March 10, 10:08 PM
... In a vacuum of evidence about what went wrong aboard the flight, speculation turned to the possibility of pilot suicide, an extraordinarily rare occurrence.
“You have to ask the question,” said a U.S. aviation official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The Malaysia Airlines flight reportedly was being tracked by radar when its transponder went dark. There were no radio transmissions to indicate that anything was amiss aboard the plane. The transponder signals and radio communication are controlled by the pilot.
There have been two cases in recent years in which a pilot or crew member is believed to have intentionally caused a plane to crash: the disaster involving SilkAir Flight 185, which spiraled into the ground in Indonesia in 1997, killing 97 passengers and seven crew members; and the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which plunged into the Atlantic south of Nantucket in 1999, killing 217 people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/debris-may-be-from-mssing-malaysia-airlines-flight/2014/03/10/2669f16a-a822-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html
The Boeing 777-200ER is equipped with a maintenance computer capable of talking to the ground automatically through short messages known as Acars. In the case of the Malaysia Airlines jet, however, investigators have no evidence to help them discover what happened to the passenger plane, the people...