That does sounds reasonable.

Yep...

If there was a fire, would the pilot put the plane on autopilot?

Does the autopilot require a route be programmed in?

Or can you just hit the 'maintain altitude and heading' button?

Quote from: Privateer on April 10, 2014, 07:31:29 AM"What I think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued on the heading, probably on George (autopilot), until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. You will find it along that routeâ€"looking elsewhere is pointless."

If there was an onboard emergency... I get that the above scenario may be a possibility....  "oh shit....  we're all dead.. plane flies onwards on last preset heading..."

But the hole in this theory for me... is what happened immediately prior to the above.....  The u-turn (OK that may fit with above "lets head for the nearest airport").....  but the ascent, decent and seemingly skilled and deliberate avoidance of Indonesian airspace... before any fixed southerly heading was fatally adhered to 

I'm still smelling pilot shenanigans.

getting ready to board a plane...fingers crossed we don't disappear.

Today's headlines indicate the Aussies are pretty confidant they've closing in on a location of black boxes.

JM

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/15/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1



Maybe this's all just an exercise to display the dangers of not putting your cell phone on airplane mode.

I think this is going to be the mistery of the century regarding aviation . . .

How embarrassing that this has still not been solved. Put Jeraldo Rivera on the case.

WTF 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-pings-not-from-plane-official-says-20140529-zrrdo.html

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/07/15/mh370-suspicions-of-systems-tampering-strengthened-by-study/

Thanks for the update.  Interesting article.

JM

They should have put the student loan folks on the hunt, they would have found that damn thing within hours.

Quote from: Speedbag on August 18, 2014, 08:02:33 AM
They should have put the student loan folks on the hunt, they would have found that damn thing within hours.