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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 17 2019, @10:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-is-out-there dept.

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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  • (Score: 1) by LAV8.ORg on Tuesday June 18 2019, @05:59PM (1 child)

    by LAV8.ORg (6653) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @05:59PM (#857094)

    Whether it was suicide or an improbable heist+mass murder by the PIC, the implications are effectively the same, as far as preventing future reoccurrence. In the broad view, admitting a pilot may become adversarial is opening Pandora's box, but with regard to the article's presented theory of MH370 specifically there's a reasonably sized set of problems to address. In particular, locking out a pilot, or crew in the case of forceful incapacitation, shouldn't be possible; that would apparently require a secondary power supply for the door that is uninterruptible from within the cockpit. Seems there should be a "rogue pilot" kit in the cabin with an oxygen supply, stun gun, and restraints, maybe a battery for the cockpit door. Allowing manual depressurization to be sustained at an altitude where the cabin masks are useless is rather questionable.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 18 2019, @07:45PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @07:45PM (#857150)

    the implications are effectively the same, as far as preventing future reoccurrence

    Not at all, the psychological profiles are entirely different.

    Seems there should be a "rogue pilot" kit in the cabin with an oxygen supply, stun gun, and restraints

    Yeah, and maybe since that one guy put explosives in his shoe, one time, we should all take our shoes off at TSA for the next 50 years.

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