OK, I Do Have a Theory of What Happened
I am going to combine two theories to form a hypothesis of what happened to the missing Malaysian Jetliner. I look for the best in people and I believe those pilots may have done the best they could do in a sudden and severe emergency.
MH370 A different point of view. Pulau Langkawi 13,000 runway.
A lot of speculation about MH370. Terrorism, hijack, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN – almost disturbing. I tend to look for a more simple explanation of this event.
Loaded 777 departs midnight from Kuala to Beijing. Hot night. Heavy aircraft. About an hour out across the gulf towards Vietnam the plane goes dark meaning the transponder goes off and secondary radar tracking goes off.
Two days later we hear of reports that Malaysian military radar (which is a primary radar meaning the plane is being tracked by reflection rather than by transponder interrogation response) has tracked the plane on a southwesterly course back across the Malay Peninsula into the straits of Malacca.
When I heard this I immediately brought up Google Earth and I searched for airports in proximity to the track towards southwest.
The left turn is the key here. This was a very experienced senior Captain with 18,000 hours. Maybe some of the younger pilots interviewed on CNN didn’t pick up on this left turn. We old pilots were always drilled to always know the closest airport of safe harbor while in cruise. Airports behind us, airports abeam us and airports ahead of us. Always in our head. Always. Because if something happens you don’t want to be thinking what are you going to do – you already know what you are going to do. Instinctively when I saw that left turn with a direct heading I knew he was heading for an airport. Actually he was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi a 13,000 foot strip with an approach over water at night with no obstacles. He did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000 foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier towards Langkawi and also a shorter distance.
Take a look on Google Earth at this airport. This pilot did all the right things. He was confronted by some major event onboard that made him make that immediate turn back to the closest safe airport. For me the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense if a fire. There was most likely a fire or electrical fire. In the case of fire the first response if to pull all the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one.
Lithosphere/Ionosphere Coupling
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/mas/article/view/25447
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18780421
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031920197000927
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367912010000830
Seismic Event’ Close to Missing Jet Path: China Scientists
BEIJING – A “seismic event” consistent with an airplane crash has been detected on the sea floor close to where the missing Malaysia Airlines jet lost contact with air traffic control on Saturday, Chinese scientists said Friday.
The signal detected by two stations in Malaysia appeared to indicate that a small tremor occurred on the floor of the sea at 2:55 a.m. about 95 miles south of Vietnam, the scientists said in a statement posted on the website of the University of Science and Technology of China.
I believe that plane met with a very sudden event comprised of gravitational turbulence and electromagnetic discharge from the ionosphere above discharging to the Earth. Our atmosphere acts like a capacitor, charged up from the Sun’s gravitational “Dark/Vacuum” energy and it constantly decays and discharges to the Earth during storms and seismic events. Best I can figure.
I pray for those families.