Help out in the search for Flight 370..

Hey everyone,
I'm not sure if you are following the recent news with the Malaysia flight 370 has "disappeared" under suspicious circumstances, but here is a way you can help look for it.. Or clues regarding the incident.
It's an organization called Tomnod.
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014?source=malaysia

Open that link up and it will explain everything, but essentially you are looking at satellite imagery (Sometimes not very good because of light unfortunately) and looking for things like oil slicks, wreckage, and maybe the actual plane. Get to tagging! You might be the one to spot it..

 

I still think it was hijacked. then the hijackers disabled the transponders and now theyre waiting for the right time for a ransom.

 

I read today that NK shot it down, Also heard Elvis was spotted in Vegas!

 

hes there every weekend

 

Yea, even without an x-ponder the aircraft can be "seen" by radar....it's not stealth.

The oddest thing to me is no signals...I mean slide rafts have ELTs, then the built in ELTs for the airframe, then the pingers on the DFDR & CVR not being picked up. How about ACARS and AHM? Those things that report to Boeing and the airline when faults occur. Really a very strange event.

 

Gotta think it blew up at cruising altitude and fake passports etc

 

I'm kind of leaning that way myself but, rather structural failure by fatigue or bomb. Either case it still seems odd that nothing is sent or is sending a signal. I'd guess an explosion could be large enough everything could have been disabled.

 

and fake passports

 

so in the funny pics thread, we can post pics of hitler, people stabbed and lying in the street, people shitting thier pants, but for some reason I can't post a funny about a fuckin airliner!

 

You should probably figure that out sooner than later if you plan on sticking around

 

By the response from OZ, I should just leave it alone but, I've missed something.

 

..a new "bermuda triangle"?

...or, i remember, not too long ago, wasn't there an airliner flying over FL that had an explosion due to oxygen tanks or some such thing?...

...in all seriousness though, the stolen passport thing + iranian ties + 5 failure-to-board sure sounds like a "profile"...

 

Yea, still bizarre. Something (or someone) to shut down all the electronic reporting and signal devices designed to signal during a catastrophic event? EMP? Still dosen't explain the lack of radar tracking. Even fragmented structure should be "seen" by radar.

 

The problem with it blowing up in midair by accident or terrorist acts is that there has been ZERO debris found anywhere. Flotation devices, seat cushions luggage, etc., all of this should be showing up SOMEWHERE. Thinking about all of this I have just a hint of an idea. I am thinking perhaps a rapid decompression of the cabin at altitude could have cause the passengers to pass out, then a rapid decent to a position where the pilot COULD have landed it similar to the pilot who landed on the Hudson River. With passengers unconscious, and perhaps a landing that knocked out the pilot, the plane could have sunk in one piece. This would result in the observed oil slick, but no debris field.

 

yep, ...i'd tend to thing there is some technical forensics that could be done, if at the least, using tracks from ATC radar coverages that it may have passed in/out of during the presumed flight path... i.e. can a flight track be patched together, and if so, then even w/ obsolete/rudimentary radars, there should also be be the altitude reported for each skin return in the track segments... so, i'd be curious, ...can a track be "patched" together, possibly spanning multiple ATC coverages (probably spanning nationalities), and can an altitude profile be constructed from that... it would be telling if we knew any trends, such as was the plane descending, at what rate, etc...

 

...could the plane have been driven into the ocean, ...at several hundred knots?... that certainly would do a number on the plane and anything inside of it...

 

Could be...I'd expect radar to be able to track the aircraft. Unless the decompression was caused by structural failure (of some sort), assuming the crew got O2 or recovered, they would/could have flown at 10,000 feet un-pressurized to a suitable landing area. Why ditch if you don't have to kind of thing?

I'm thinking so...like the military. Countries don't rely on the enemy to have the Mode C transponder on, reporting exact location. The 777-200 is anything but a stealth aircraft so I'm guessing if it could be tracked, it was being tracked. Or it was fragmented to a degree that it could no longer be tracked.

 

It would explode upon hitting water causing a debris field.

 

baffling up to now still no traces of it. sad to see the victims relatives