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A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet | Autopia | Wired.com
I've seen links to this article all over the internet, can we please just put it to rest?
For me, the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense in a fire. And there most likely was an electrical fire. In the case of a fire, the first response is to pull the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one. If they pulled the busses, the plane would go silent. It probably was a serious event and the flight crew was occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. Aviate, navigate, and lastly, communicate is the mantra in such situations.
No. The first step in any smoke in the cockpit situation is to don the o2 masks and establish communications. The pilot flying would continue to fly the airplane and take over radio duties while the pilot monitoring ran the appropriate checklist. You don't just start pulling breakers to isolate busses. If a turn was made, it would be initiated by that pilot flying and he would certainly make that known to ATC. You'll find that most pilots are very reluctant to initiate a turn off course without communicating it to ATC.
Can you name a major fire resulting in the loss of the aircraft where the pilot didn't have a chance to make a distress call? I can't.