Where is Malaysian Flight 370?????

Unsympathetic

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Mar 15th 2014, 14:54:05

The problem with the transponder is that civilian radar doesn't actually scan all the skies.. it only plots the transponder. So, no transponder = the plane doesn't show on any civilian radar. It will however show on military radar.

Hijacking for electronic warfare purposes seems plausible. The other unfortunate thing is that only about 15% of terrorist incidents over the last 20 years have actually been claimed.. so it's entirely plausible that we will never know what happened.

hawkeyee

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Mar 15th 2014, 23:35:51

Originally posted by BILL_DANGER:

Originally posted by Trife:

i still want to know why transponders are able to be switched off?

AS I UNDERSTAND IT (DISCLAIMER, THIS IS AT LEAST SECOND HAND), THE PILOTS ARE ABLE TO TURN TRANSPONDERS OFF TO PROVIDE THEM WITH A WAY TO SIGNAL THAT THEY ARE UNDER DURESS BY TURNING OFF AND BACK ON, CAUSING A BLIP.. IN MODERN AIRCRAFT THEY CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE THE CODE BEING SENT TO ACCOMPLISH THE SAME BUT I GUESS ON OLDER PLANES THEY DON'T HAVE THAT OPTION SO THE OFF/ON REMAINS..

..SO I'M TOLD
BILL
AVIATION EXPERT

No, that's not it. Pilots change their transponder to code 7500 to indicate they are being hijacked. Having it set to one code that hijackers may not recognize is a lot better than constantly turning something on and off. There are several standard squawk codes that pilots use. 7700 indicates an emergency. 7600 indicates radio failure. 7500 indicates hijacking.

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blid

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Mar 16th 2014, 0:20:53

This is one of the coolest mysteries the world has seen in years. Regrets to the 300 ppl

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

ddd

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Mar 16th 2014, 1:17:18

duh, its on the bottom of the ocean

no mystery at all

dido to the 300

galleri

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Mar 16th 2014, 3:59:37

Originally posted by Fooglmog:

If anyone's interested in some more technical speculations, http://www.airliners.net is a large community of airplane enthusiasts which includes lots of real experts from the industry. You can't post on their forum without paying, and they've written so much by now that it would take some time to wade through. But that's the place if you want speculation from people with real detailed knowledge about airplanes.

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Guy with no clue.

DAMN YOU FOOG! THIS IS WHY I CANNOT HAVE NICE THINGS.
Distractions like this!!!

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Kahuna: Ya you just wrote the fkn equation, not helping me at all. Lol n I hated algebra.

galleri

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Mar 17th 2014, 9:01:41

2014 hide and seek world champions.

Too Soon?

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Kahuna: Ya you just wrote the fkn equation, not helping me at all. Lol n I hated algebra.

hawkeyee

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Mar 17th 2014, 16:59:45

Originally posted by galleri:

Too Soon?

Yes

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