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[2014] Most plausible explanation of mystery of Malasyian Flight 370

x3 skier said:
If the Gear was extended above the limit speed for extension or retraction, the Gear doors would have likely departed the aircraft. They are not designed to withstand the cruise speeds while open. The Gear themselves are pretty beefy but who knows what a 500+ MPH breeze would do to the linkages, etc.
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Thanks, and quite interesting. If we assume that the above is true (which is far from given), that implies that the landing gear was lowered sometime as the plane was going down. Could that have happened automatically, or does that suggest that some conscious person in cockpit triggered landing gear deployment?
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
Thanks, and quite interesting. If we assume that the above is true (which is far from given), that implies that the landing gear was lowered sometime as the plane was going down. Could that have happened automatically, or does that suggest that some conscious person in cockpit triggered landing gear deployment?
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Or did they never raise the landing gear after the last takeoff? If the pilot was suicidal, as has been speculated, he'd know exactly what was going on. It isn't as though there was a planned landing somewhere.

Dave
 
DaveNV said:
Or did they never raise the landing gear after the last takeoff? If the pilot was suicidal, as has been speculated, he'd know exactly what was going on. It isn't as though there was a planned landing somewhere.

Dave
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If what x3skier said is valid, that wouldn't be the case - the doors would have ripped off in flight. Working off of his premise, the landing doors would have been lowered some time during descent.

Again, working with that premise, it suggests that someone was in command, to open the landing doors during the final descent. It also raises the possibility that the plane didn't crash after running out of fuel. Rather, it might have been piloted to a specific crash location.

Why the landing gear would have been deployed for an ocean would be a mystery. But if the presence of the landing doors indicates the doors were opened prior to the crash, the possibility that the plane was still being piloted at the time of the crash is in play. It would also suggest that assessments of the likely crash location predicated on the plane running out of fuel might be seriously in error.
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
If what x3skier said is valid, that wouldn't be the case - the doors would have ripped off in flight. Working off of his premise, the landing doors would have been lowered some time during descent.

Again, working with that premise, it suggests that someone was in command, to open the landing doors during the final descent. It also raises the possibility that the plane didn't crash after running out of fuel. Rather, it might have been piloted to a specific crash location.

Why the landing gear would have been deployed for an ocean would be a mystery. But if the presence of the landing doors indicates the doors were opened prior to the crash, the possibility that the plane was still being piloted at the time of the crash is in play. It would also suggest that assessments of the likely crash location predicated on the plane running out of fuel might be seriously in error.
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I understand. Seems so odd to have such a relatively unrelated collection of debris found in all the searching they did, yet it has all been found in the same relative area.

Dave
 
Something has to cause the wreckage to not be found, and the most logical explanation is that the search was in the wrong place.
 
Passepartout said:
Something has to cause the wreckage to not be found, and the most logical explanation is that the search was in the wrong place.
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Seems logical. You always find something in the last place you look. ;)

What I meant is that considering what wreckage they DID find, and the part of the world where it was found, would seem to go against the general area off Western Australia that I understand was a primary search area. The Indian Ocean is very large, and there are definitely currents at play. But if these unrelated pieces of debris washed up in such a relatively similar area, some pieces being quite large, it definitely seems like they've been looking in the wrong area. Reunion Island is more than 6000 miles from Western Australia.

Dave
 
DaveNV said:
Seems logical. You always find something in the last place you look. ;)

What I meant is that considering what wreckage they DID find, and the part of the world where it was found, would seem to go against the general area off Western Australia that I understand was a primary search area. The Indian Ocean is very large, and there are definitely currents at play. But if these unrelated pieces of debris washed up in such a relatively similar area, some pieces being quite large, it definitely seems like they've been looking in the wrong area. Reunion Island is more than 6000 miles from Western Australia.

Dave
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Actually the pieces that have been found washed up in the locations predicted by oceanographers based on modeling of Indian Ocean currents.
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
Thanks, and quite interesting. If we assume that the above is true (which is far from given), that implies that the landing gear was lowered sometime as the plane was going down. Could that have happened automatically, or does that suggest that some conscious person in cockpit triggered landing gear deployment?
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I know of no system that “automatically” lowers the gear. What is automatic is gear warming when speed is slow (or fast) enough usually combined with an altitude sensor like a radar altimeter to prevent a gear up landing (or damage if in flight)). It can be a horn or the so-called “Bitching Betty” that “Speaks” to the fight deck crew something like “Check Landing Gear, Check Landing Gear”.

Cheers
 
This aircraft folk is loss. Please let the families of this fatal crash RIP.
 
MULTIZ321 said:
Researcher claims to have found missing flight MH370 in groundbreaking satellite images
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Complete nonsense, unless she can offer up a reasonable explanation for why debris from a plane crash in the South China is showing up in the eastern Indian Ocean.


What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
www.theatlantic.com
 
Barnacles may be the answer to the fate of
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Barnacles may be the answer to the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The mystery of flight MAF370, which vanished over the Indian Ocean with all hands, has baffled the world for nine years, but now a geoscientist at the University of South Florida may have found a surprising way to locate the wreck using barnacles.
newatlas.com


Richard
 
Just watched a National Geographic show called Drain the Oceans about the missing MH370. The show may be from a couple years ago as it was season 1 (now on season 5). A good recap and discusses leads that they have had. I watched it on Disney +.
 
Can’t believe it has been nine years already.
 
MULTIZ321 said:
Missing Malaysian flight MH370 could be found in 'days' with new search, claim experts


Experts claim missing MH370 flight could be found in ‘days’ with new search

Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly have called for a new search based on revelations about the fate of the flight.
www.scmp.com


Richard
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Ha, ha. The "experts" claim that if someone pays them upfront, they will commence a search and find the plane in 10 days. :ROFLMAO:

This should sound very familiar to Tuggers, like an upfront exit company!
 
So sad for the families that this garbage continues to be regurgitated. No one knows, but the facts known are pretty straightforward.
 
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