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Started by ungeheuer, March 10, 2014, 06:08:23 PM

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Drjones

Either the copilot went batshit crazy or it is a convenient coverup story for oh shit we shot down an airliner.
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Quote from: the_Journeyman on March 17, 2014, 03:15:51 PM
For those of you familiar with aviation - How low could you feasibly fly a plane of that size over the water?

JM

Easily very low due to the ground effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_%28aircraft%29

Would kill their range though.
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Lot more concentration required the lower you go. I would definitly be running the Radar altimiter.

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If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

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Still seems unrealistic that there's no debris. Then again after this much time who knows where it could have drifted to or sunk.
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4500 metres deep.

Bollocks.  :(
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When I read the article I saw 4500...and thought...

no big deal.


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I didn't see this linked, but easily the most plausible theory I've read:

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/


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