Page 13 – Unlucky for some.
Chillit - “I now tend to believe Captain Zaharie Shah brought his own plane down for reasons only he understood. I have come to that conclusion recently.”
“[the] plane was brought down intentionally, and that only one person on the plane had the expertise to do it: etc.”
1. ACARS appears to have been manually disabled from the cockpit when one of three VHF radios was turned off 15 minutes before the plane reached Waypoint Igari; (it was not disabled with the Avionics circuit breaker, which would have also disabled SATCOM);
I timed it – it took me less than 15 seconds to find, through Google, thousands of technical details related to the 777 aircraft ‘avionics systems’; and less than 90 seconds to find out where, precisely, every system switch is. Simply because the #1 VHF was turned off and the transponder went dark at IGARI does not, IMO, constitute a cast iron proof that it was the Captain. It requires very little technical expertise to ‘flip’ a switch’. The ‘fact’ that many other methods of communication were left ‘active’ could, equally, be interpreted as ‘proof’ that there was no intent. More importantly; the assertion fails, utterly, to prove that it was the PIC hand which 'flipped the switch'.
Please, in simple terms, explain exactly how you can prove “[when] one of three VHF radios was turned off 15 minutes before the plane reached Way-point Igari;” etc. This one sentence, stand alone, is risible.
2. The primary transponder (ADS-B) was manually turned off at IGARI; the backup transponder remained off / unused;
How do you know, beyond reasonable doubt that the PIC, reached up and deliberately turned the transponder OFF? There is no evidence, one way or the other to support the assertions being made - not one single, solitary scrap. Maybe the pilot did it, maybe he did not - who knows? Sorry Mike; I stopped reading about there; same reason as above. Alt_file_delete.
No offense intended, indeed I was eagerly anticipating reading the whole thing – today; happily arranged my day and allocated whatever time it took to do so. Seems I have time on my hands now. Appreciate the effort – Alas….
Chillit - “I now tend to believe Captain Zaharie Shah brought his own plane down for reasons only he understood. I have come to that conclusion recently.”
“[the] plane was brought down intentionally, and that only one person on the plane had the expertise to do it: etc.”
1. ACARS appears to have been manually disabled from the cockpit when one of three VHF radios was turned off 15 minutes before the plane reached Waypoint Igari; (it was not disabled with the Avionics circuit breaker, which would have also disabled SATCOM);
I timed it – it took me less than 15 seconds to find, through Google, thousands of technical details related to the 777 aircraft ‘avionics systems’; and less than 90 seconds to find out where, precisely, every system switch is. Simply because the #1 VHF was turned off and the transponder went dark at IGARI does not, IMO, constitute a cast iron proof that it was the Captain. It requires very little technical expertise to ‘flip’ a switch’. The ‘fact’ that many other methods of communication were left ‘active’ could, equally, be interpreted as ‘proof’ that there was no intent. More importantly; the assertion fails, utterly, to prove that it was the PIC hand which 'flipped the switch'.
Please, in simple terms, explain exactly how you can prove “[when] one of three VHF radios was turned off 15 minutes before the plane reached Way-point Igari;” etc. This one sentence, stand alone, is risible.
2. The primary transponder (ADS-B) was manually turned off at IGARI; the backup transponder remained off / unused;
How do you know, beyond reasonable doubt that the PIC, reached up and deliberately turned the transponder OFF? There is no evidence, one way or the other to support the assertions being made - not one single, solitary scrap. Maybe the pilot did it, maybe he did not - who knows? Sorry Mike; I stopped reading about there; same reason as above. Alt_file_delete.
No offense intended, indeed I was eagerly anticipating reading the whole thing – today; happily arranged my day and allocated whatever time it took to do so. Seems I have time on my hands now. Appreciate the effort – Alas….