What happened to Flight MH370 and why do we care?
Everyone is wondering what happened to this flight that evaporated from radars. Theories range from highjacking, fire on board, aliens and so on.
So far, the most convincing theory from my tiny point of view is related to this one:
Mr. Goodfellow defends that there was an event on board, the pilot set destination to an emergency landing in a nearby airport, and he didnt make it.
I believe he is mostly right because:
- If it had been a terrorist action, even if a failed one, someone might have claimed it just for marketing purpouses warning of future events.
- UFOs have not been proved to exist so far.
- One pilot might have gone crazy, but not the copilot at the same time.
So this is my guess of how events developed:
There was an incident on board. It caused communication systems to fail whatever it was (a fire most probably). Or pilots switched circuits off trying to get rid of fire. But this still ticks my mind... Why didnt they just send an SOS signal?
Anyway, pilots had the time to head for an emergency landing nearby as Mr Goodfellow suggests.
At a point, they realized they were not going to make it. Probably, a sudden depresurization of the cabin made them think so? The plane wreacking havoc?
They corrected the flight path in the last second towards a non-populated area, knowing that they could not escape a crash landing, and trying to avoid further damage. Thats why they ended up in the middle of the Indian Ocean in a southern route to nowhere but death and the south pole.
Probably all passengers and tripulation died or froze due to depresurization. Or not. Someone might have realized in the nav maps that all business class seats have that the plane was headed opposite to Beijing. And sooner or later they tried to enter the pilot cabin to see what the hell was going on, but now you cannot enter that cabin so easily, after the Sept11 Al Qaeda events, uh? Or as I said, they just died due to depresurization, but the plane kept on going south for several hours after it crashed.
So, the pilots did the right thing, they were heroes. And the passengers freaked out when they realized they were heading south, or they just did not freak out because they died in a few minutes due to depresurization. Probably we will never know the details. The idea of a ghost plane is too bad even for a horror movie.
The underlying idea here is not where the plane is. The thing is...black box technology and satellite tracking seems to be VERY obsolete for today's aviation needs!! In an everything-connected world, where the internet of things is in everyone's mouth, planes should not rely on onboard blackboxes that sink 3000 meters in the mid of the ocean and become a bit difficult to recover. Planes should be continuously trasmitting all crytical information and storing it in the cloud, from pilot radio comms to all systems info and geolocation. Not in the clouds up there, but in the cloud!
So, this lesson should trigger an enhancement on safety and tracking systems onboard. And then the passengers will pay a little bit extra for their tickets. Probably the NSA could outsource some of its technology for this purpouse and redeem its image now!
Bye Bye.
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