Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: The most probable facts

[sasguru]

A fire on board, like Swissair 111 which crashed off Nova Scotia in the 90s.
This either disabled all the comms (ACARS, transponder etc) or the pilots disabled them while looking for the fault and were then overwhelmed by events.
The plane crashed in the Indian Ocean somewhere.

RIP passengers and unfairly maligned crew

[OwlHoot]

and the fire could have been caused by a reckless highjacker firing a gun through the cockpit floor

OH in "just trying to cover all possibilities" mode

[GlenW]

BBC News - An MH370 theory that was simple, compelling and wrong

[sasguru]

BBC News - An MH370 theory that was simple, compelling and wrong

I did read that - but what if the catastrophic event (fire or hydraulic failure) simply left the plane out of control after a certain point ( or out of control because of pilot incapacitation - smoke could have caused them to be unconscious and the fire could have then gone out).

There was a Nippon Air 747 that crashed into a mountain many years ago due to hydraulic failure - it was essentially out of control and exhibited many changes in lateral, horizontal and vertical direction, without actually going into a dive and crashing into the ground.

[OwlHoot]

The most informative thread, as far as any can be in the circs, or well-informed anyway, is probably:

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines-mh370-contact-lost.html

[sasguru]

The most informative thread, as far as any can be in the circs, or well-informed anyway, is probably:

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines-mh370-contact-lost.html

Really? Seems to be very few pilots on there just a bunch of CUK-like cretins.
In other words, pluck a random improbable theory out if thin air and then try and make the facts fit it.

[OwlHoot]

Really? Seems to be very few pilots on there just a bunch of CUK-like cretins.

Well not many are as knowledgeable as us naturally, but a few seem to know their stuff up to a point.

[sasguru]

Well not many are as knowledgeable as us naturally, but a few seem to know their stuff up to a point.

I think you fall into the cretin category. But you probably know that deep down.

[mudskipper]

<pedant>You can't have probable facts; facts are certainties.</pedant>

[Goatfell]

If the wreckage currently being investegated does turn out to be from the aircraft, that would point to the plane flying until it ran out of fuel. It's unlikely that would have happened had it been on fire.
For some reason the comms were disabled, the plane was then directed to a bearing, then left to its own devices.

"Why" is the question.