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A Year On, What Flight Simulators Can't Prove About Flight MH370

NBC News, a year after the loss of Malaysian Airlines flight 370, has an interesting piece about various scenarios that would explain the plane's disappearance. From the article: The theory that the pilots turned west because of an emergency is undermined because they did not head back toward Kuala Lumpur, according to retired NTSB senior investigator Greg Feith. ... Feith said that turning off the communications and taking the aircraft to the remote Indian Ocean was a course of action consistent with someone trying to purposefully lose an airliner. "It's 20,000-plus feet deep there," Feith said. "It's going be very difficult to find." He added that "the first thing you're going to do" as a pilot during an emergency is "don the oxygen mask" and "confess to ATC [air traffic control], 'We've got an issue, we need to return.'" Feith, who investigated other so-called "murder-suicide" airline crashes while at the NTSB, said that he has "always postured at least that this was an intentional act by one or both pilots."

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  1. The auto pilot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    was running systemd . It got so pissed

    1. Re:The auto pilot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      If only Harrison Ford had been piloting the plane...

  2. Re:Just let go. by invictusvoyd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe, but you dont exactly need a 747 full of people who have nothing to do with you or your tendencies to commit suicide. All you need is systemd

  3. Re:it will never be found by burtosis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was it a black smoke plume that changes shape a lot? I'm pretty sure the island is moved by now, likely all are lost.