:wtf: Malaysia Airlines Plane "Vanishes" en Route to Beijing with 239 Aboard

[OneManGang]

I'm no expert in the air traffic control system over in Southeast Asia but I know about the one here in the U.S. (I'm an air traffic controller) and the whole fukking system is old as shyt. We're still using ground based radar and chances are that plane went down over water when most planes are usually non-radar meaning they aren't being tracked by anything besides some flight strips. There is GPS but who knows what type of system failure occurred if any.

With that being said this shyt is still EXTREMELY rare. There is a satellite system in the works now but still a few years out I think.

I always assumed we were GPS tracking flights in 2014. So planes dont show up on radar at all over oceans....radio contact is kept though right which helps track them? Also if GPS isn't used, how do websites like flight tracker allow me to get real time updates of flights?

Edit: nvm figured out how flight tracker works

 

[88m3]

Well ya... depends on what exactly you mean by "wreckage". The FDR was found on 27/04/2011 (so if you take the crash morning of 01/06/2009 it was 695 days).

Was the cause of that crash the autopilot disengaging and then the co pilot stalled it?

 

[GzUp]

Was the cause of that crash the autopilot disengaging and then the co pilot stalled it?

I posted a really good documentary on it, u should check it out.

But if I remember correctly there was a reason it went off auto pilot, I forget why but human error is what caused it to go down.

Once the auto pilot goes off the plane is still typically flying itself in the sense u don't really have to do much from what I understood in the video .

But a malfunction on the plane that detects how high or something on that level wasn't giving proper reading cuz the sensors froze over.. The pilot than thought the plane was losing altitude and began to pull back on the stick causing the planes noes to go up but apperntly at that level of altitude it would be like u going up hill on your car, if u don't give it more gas it's going to start to stay or fall back... In this case that plane was falling like a rock and what he should have done while it was bigingin to fall was point the nose of the plane down... Once the captain realized he was doing that(captain was in break and came in in the middle of this) was like no no point it down it was too late, they were at 10,000 feet

 

[PimpHandStrong]

I always assumed we were GPS tracking flights in 2014. So planes dont show up on radar at all over oceans....radio contact is kept though right which helps track them? Also if GPS isn't used, how do websites like flight tracker allow me to get real time updates of flights?
Edit: nvm figured out how flight tracker works

Simple answer: No and No

Long Answer: Planes are tracked up to a certain point within the radars area of surveillance. Since its all ground based its only up to a certain point. The same goes for radio communication. Pilots are usually told to contact ATC at a certain time or point in space while crossing over the ocean.

Most commercial planes have GPS on board but the aircrafts aren't necessarily being tracked by it. In the next few years a new system called ADS-B will be implemented that's GPS based which will allow for aircrafts to be tracked over water as well as fly closers together.

The New York City ARTCC that handles a lot of non radar over water aircraft do have a computer system that inputs flight data into a computer and virtually tracks planes but its not real time I don't think.

 

[Type Username Here]

I think some of you forget how big the oceans actually are, even that gulf.

During WWII they had constant air, surface and subsurface reconnaissance in the Pacific on both sides and you still hard large Naval movements go undetected sometimes.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

I'm telling y'all watch that video....

 

[Danie84]

They making it sound like it eviscerated in the sky, or entered the Bermuda Triangle

... to the victims that perished

 

[61 Corpses]

They making it sound like it eviscerated in the sky, or got caught in a Bermuda Triangle

... to the victims that perished

Aliens my brehette

But for real, that clip @Christopher browns posted has me like
I'm sure there is no coincidence that no officials have went public on that what kind of aircraft that was in the video that was going fast as hell, almost hit another plane, and then just stalled in the air?

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Aliens my brehette

But for real, that clip @Christopher browns posted has me like
I'm sure there is no coincidence that no officials have went public on that what kind of aircraft that was in the video that was going fast as hell, almost hit another plane, and then just stalled in the air?

Exactly what the fukk is that about
I want answers!

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Still nothing......

 

[newarkhiphop]

Am always confused when something like this happens, can some of u aviation brehs explain whats the purpose of the black box? I swear i thought them things had some type of tracking function to them

 

[newarkhiphop]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Probe-5-passengers-checked-never-boarded.html

five passengers checked in but never boarded

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

This is getting weirder and weirder

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Crazy shyt.

Plane should've never crashed.


Let the least experienced pilot fly the plane brehs.

 

[ghostwriterx]

Wow you mean people died cos the pilot was unreachable and the junior pilot was on point and senior pilot fukked shyt up.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...-with-a-woman-when-flight-447-was-in-trouble/