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Originally Posted by Rinty
This is where I go, for aviation disaster news:
Malaysian Airlines MH370 contact lost - PPRuNe Forums
I lost my step sister and her husband in the Tripoli crash a few years ago, and the site was very helpful in helping me to understand what happened.
As a former private pilot, I can't understand some of the terms used, but I can usually find explanations with Google. |
Very interesting site, thanks Rinty.
From that site, some interesting tech information about the engine reporting. In short, apparently it's possible for the system on board to be trying to locate a station to relay data to Rolls ("ping", much like a cell phone searching for a tower), and not actually transmit any data. That could account of the apparent conflict in reporting that the engines continued to run for approx. four hours, but Rolls didn't receive any data since before the loss of radar contact. Possibly the U.S. was able to pick up the pings and monitor them for several hours. Add to that, the fact the U.S. had no reason to analyze or identify the pings when received in real time and the difficulty in going back and trying to find specific data amidst thousands of other electronic inputs recorded in the interim makes it
plausible the plane did make it somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
I have no doubt the U.S. may have additional information, not yet released. I'm giving some credibility to this latest report but am waiting for a more substantial reason for the Indian Ocean search than "an indication."