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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
There are a lot of technical details in the article that raise some very interesting questions.
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What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane?
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(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Tuesday June 18 2019, @04:00AM (3 children)
Its too easy to blame the MH370 air crew. I think it is just as valid to suspect the consignment of lithium-ion batteries in its cargo hold.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @06:03AM
I'd also blame airlines for having hella expensive assets fly all over creation without continuous GPS position tracking, while most truck fleets are being tracked.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @12:25PM
> Its too easy to blame the MH370 air crew. I think it is just as valid to suspect the consignment of lithium-ion batteries in its cargo hold.
You may think that, but you would be wrong.
While a Li-ion battery fire could bring down an airliner, it cannot:
All of which there is data to support MH370 doing.
A fire of such sudden and epic proportions that neither the captain nor first officer could make a simple radio call, while simultaneously disabling the transponder and other communication equipment, would have to be an explosion causing the aircraft to immediately break up. That would place the wreckage along the original flight path.
There is radar evidence to show the aircraft deviated - in a controlled fashion - from its original flight path. Wreckage has been found in locations consistent with the deviated flight path. It flew for hours while radio silent. That completely contradicts the idea of a sudden fire / explosion.
The specialized knowledge required to selectively disable only the flight systems related to communication & tracking is not something the average person would have... this strongly, but not conclusively, points the finger at a member of the flight crew.
So while we cannot definitely blame a member of the flight crew, we can rule out a simple fire/explosion from something like Li-ion batteries.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Tuesday June 18 2019, @07:05PM
Those lithium-ion batteries had to be very smart to conduct a U turn of the plane exactly at a blind spot (at least a poorly over-seen one) in the air traffic control systems, take it back over the pilot's home (Penang) and bank it there to give him a last look, then turn it south into an open ocean area with a final controlled turn.