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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
lol at everyone ITT dismissing the simple electrical fire explaination for the conspiricatard stuff based on like sixth hand info
lol. It's hardly 6th hand info. It was "The New York Times reports that an American official familiar with the investigation says". If we took no notice of anything with that level of certainty, we'd know nothing about what is going on.
And the electrical fire explanation is not "simple" unless you assume a fire is a magical entity with the power to do whatever you want it to do at any given time. To my knowledge there are no examples in the history of aviation of a fire strong enough to knock out key systems/incapacitate the pilots where the plane then kept flying for hours. Not a single one. That's just one problem with the theory.
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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
But pilot suicide and hijacking also don't make any sense. Hijackers make demands or do something with the plane. There is some objective other than flying it to the middle of the ocean. And pilot suicide? Why would he fly around for seven hours? Just to screw with the people riding in the plane?
As has been gone through a billion times, the point would be to stop the plane being found. Unlike most theories there is precedent for this. The SilkAir 185 pilot shut down the FDR and CVR prior to crashing the plane. This turned out to be insufficient to stop investigators demonstrating that the plane was crashed deliberately. In this case if not for the SATCOM pings the plane would have been located 0% of the time.
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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
That pilot who wrote the article about the fire said pulling the circuit breakers would cause the communications lapse, and that it's quite plausible that the pilots would do that immediately in the case of a fire. Seems like he'd know that and that Wired would fact check that.
This already has been fact checked
here, by an actual 777 pilot (the other pilot had never flown the 777):
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While the pilot working the problem is busy, the pilot flying will turn the aircraft toward the nearest appropriate airport, begin a descent, and communicate with ATC and/or any aeroplanes in the area. While it is true that the checklists may, in the event of an electrical fire, have the pilots de-power certain systems or circuits, these steps are down the list; the pilots would have already declared the emergency and turned toward the nearest appropriate airport.
I can think of no plausible reason why the crew never made any attempt to contact ATC during the event, except that whoever was in control of the cockpit did not wish to communicate.
Read the whole article, it's worth your time.
I mean I know "aviate, navigate, communicate" but there are exceptions. It is ******ed to disable your comms before negotiating a place to land, otherwise you can't get the plane on the ground, which is priority #1 when there's a fire.