Where did that airplane go?

ironpony · Mar 21, 2014

jtharkin, go to google earth or mapquest etc, type in your address, switch to satellite mode and zoom in on your house. I am sure you have tried this, if you can get that resolution from a satellite, imagine what the govt is capable of. also at 45,000 ft a person would be unconscious in 2-3 seconds and the oxygen can be shut down from the cockpit. remember at this point the pilot could care less about anyone aboard, he is not going to be nice about it.
well we will have to wait and see, as another experts location has produced nothing enough said by me.

Grisu · Mar 21, 2014

ironpony said:
jtharkin, go to google earth or mapquest etc, type in your address, switch to satellite mode and zoom in on your house. I am sure you have tried this, if you can get that resolution from a satellite, imagine what the govt is capable of.

Talking about resolution is beside the point. Take 1000 quarters and throw them randomly across the entire southwest. Sure some government agency satellites can see whether they are heads or tails if they can find them. High resolution cameras are not that helpful when you want to look at an area that is several 1000 square miles big. Plus, which country will sacrifice days of expensive satellite time to find an airplane that almost certainly drowned? Not to mention pay the guys who would analyze all those pictures? You are also searching in an area that is surely not that well covered anyway since you look at a lot of empty ocean. Moving satellites is again expensive if it is even possible at all. This ain't Hollywood and we are not looking for Will Smith.

BrotherBart · Mar 21, 2014

Love Goggle Earth though. In the last update I could see my cat sleeping next to the woodpile.

WiscWoody · Mar 21, 2014

drewmo said:
No idea, but the longer it stays missing the more likely it is hidden someplace. Given it's been 12 days disappeared, had it crashed in the ocean, a chunk of that plane would have been found by now.

The indian is a big ocean. And can you imagine how deep it is? Up to 4 1/2 miles deep! It's in the ocen somewhere IMO.

jharkin · Mar 21, 2014

ironpony said:
jtharkin, go to google earth or mapquest etc, type in your address, switch to satellite mode and zoom in on your house. I am sure you have tried this, if you can get that resolution from a satellite, imagine what the govt is capable of. also at 45,000 ft a person would be unconscious in 2-3 seconds and the oxygen can be shut down from the cockpit. remember at this point the pilot could care less about anyone aboard, he is not going to be nice about it.
well we will have to wait and see, as another experts location has produced nothing enough said by me.

Again, you are assuming an instantaneous depressurization like a window blowing out. If the pilots opened the depress valve it would not happen that fast... The attendants would feel their ears pop and know what's happening, and I'm relatively certain the cabin oxygen masks deploy automatically.

Also, I looked up the chart. Even at 45000 ft the rated TUC ( time of useful consciousness) is almost 10 sec. Its close to 20 sec at a mere 40k. And again this is after the cabin fully depressurized widh might take a minute or so.

Unless you think the pilots walked back and just threw open a door????

ironpony · Mar 21, 2014

Grisu said:
Talking about resolution is beside the point. Take 1000 quarters and throw them randomly across the entire southwest. Sure some government agency satellites can see whether they are heads or tails if they can find them. High resolution cameras are not that helpful when you want to look at an area that is several 1000 square miles big. Plus, which country will sacrifice days of expensive satellite time to find an airplane that almost certainly drowned? Not to mention pay the guys who would analyze all those pictures? You are also searching in an area that is surely not that well covered anyway since you look at a lot of empty ocean. Moving satellites is again expensive if it is even possible at all. This ain't Hollywood and we are not looking for Will Smith.

my point is when they do see something it is blurry. the piece was supposedly 75 feet long and they could not tell what it was? or at least have a clear picture?

ironpony · Mar 21, 2014

jharkin said:
Again, you are assuming an instantaneous depressurization like a window blowing out. If the pilots opened the depress valve it would not happen that fast... The attendants would feel their ears pop and know what's happening, and I'm relatively certain the cabin oxygen masks deploy automatically.

Also, I looked up the chart. Even at 45000 ft the rated TUC ( time of useful consciousness) is almost 10 sec. Its close to 20 sec at a mere 40k. And again this is after the cabin fully depressurized widh might take a minute or so.

Unless you think the pilots walked back and just threw open a door????

my final post on this topic. The masks drop automatically, the pilot still controls the oxygen flow. O.K. it takes 2 mnis to depressurize, the passengers realize it. the pilots are in a cockpit which is secure against intrusion, what are the passengers going to do? even if it took 10 mins, there is nothing they can do.

WiscWoody · Mar 21, 2014

Seasoned Oak said:
My question is,why would a pilot need or want to have a flight simulator set up in his house. Im thinking if he wanted to test legitimate theories he could find a simulator to use without going to all the trouble of setting up his own.

From someone who has flown but minimums became too pricey, to keep my license, his sim looked pretty nice. He could set up different scenarios and test his strategies. He had over two years in the air so I'd think he was good at what he did.

BrotherBart · Mar 21, 2014

Done until we get more news than "There is no new news.".

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