We basically know what happened with MH370

[re'up]

That guy who was ex pat/Globetrotter/adventurer sounded like a real nut, thanks for posting, not usually a subject that holds my interest, but it was an article I am glad I read.

I read a great book in 2016 by Noah Hawley, which chronicled a (fictional) plane crash, but clearly based on real events.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I read like half of it then got tired

cliffs

Due to automatic transmissions from the plane, radar data, and pings from the satellite box, we can know with almost complete certainty that the pilot was in control the entire time. The evidence is not consistent with any sort of mechanical failure or outside interference at all. He purposely flew it to avoid radar as much as possible, directed it as far from land as possible into the southern Indian Ocean, and then nose-dived it straight into the water once it ran out of fuel.

Everyone else in the plane was already killed via depressurization at 40,000 feet early in the flight.

Pilot had family issues, wife and mistress had both left him, and was acting depressed. Decided to commit suicide spectacularly.

How anybody can ever take CNN remotely serious after they spent the better part of year dedicating damn near 24hr coverage of "Breaking News" to this missing plane story is beyond me.

They should have been laughed and shamed into oblivion.

Cable news is trash.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I read like half of it then got tired

cliffs

me too

 

[Serious]

@RealAssanova @BonafideDefacto

 

[Mike Nasty]

I read like half of it then got tired

cliffs

The Captain did it. He killed everyone peacefully (except the first officer), then flew off into the darkness.

 

[BonafideDefacto]

Well regardless of anything... I flew Malaysia Airlines twice last year. Singapore - Kuala Lumpur and then Kuala Lumpur - Beijing. No issues...but also the worst out of all the other major Asian airlines service wise from my experience. Will try to read the article tomorrow on my train ride to work

 

[Rozay Oro]

Even I wouldn't paste that into a text to speech app. It will turn into a podcast lol

 

[88m3]

Well regardless of anything... I flew Malaysia Airlines twice last year. Singapore - Kuala Lumpur and then Kuala Lumpur - Beijing. No issues...but also the worst out of all the other major Asian airlines service wise from my experience. Will try to read the article tomorrow on my train ride to work

might want to

 

[TheKid55]

Who tf would want to commit suicide diving headfirst into the fukking ocean

That’s the scariest muthafukking place to die

fukk wrong with y’all

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

so the pilot depressurized the cabin and just into the sunset?

Spoiler

 

[newarkhiphop]

scary shyt.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Who tf would want to commit suicide diving headfirst into the fukking ocean

That’s the scariest muthafukking place to die

fukk wrong with y’all

That's literally my greatest fear. Being stranded in the middle of the ocean.

I'm sure terrorists or various other criminals have done this, but can you imagine the sheer terror and dread of being taken out in the middle of the ocean thousands of miles from land and just being left on a raft in the middle of the night?

 

[88m3]

Crazy shyt is how often it's happening now. It's almost at the level where it will start becoming a copycat crime like school shootings. There was one in the late 1990s and now three more just in the last few years. They better really be on top of their monitoring of pilot psychological health:

Yeah, I've read about a lot of the accidents/intentional crashes over the years out of interest. It's scale in rate of incidences is small but the human toll on anything the scale of 747 going down is heartbreaking.

A friends dad has been a pilot for a major carrier for twenty years and some of the stories he's told me...

I wouldn't count on the airlines to do the right thing.

 

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Heartbreaking.

That German Airbus incident was terrifying just reading about it when it happened. Reports of the pilot desperately trying to break back into the cockpit once they realized what that sick fukk co-pilot was doing before he crashed it into the mountain.

I immersed myself in reading about the Valujet crash a few years ago that happened in 1996. That wasn't intentional but hearing the panic in the background from the recovered black box was very sad. Like AzBeauty said, knowing your life is out of your control and being thousands of feet above ground must be an indescribably horrible feeling.

What flight was this?

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

What flight was this?

Germanwings Flight 9525 - Wikipedia