Malaysia Jet missing-Officials conclude crash in Indian ocean/all lives presumed lost

[Tinordi]

Read a theory that a guy said there may have been a very small failure in the fuselage that lead to a slow cabin depressurization. That could have led to the entire cabin being knocked out before anyone knew to get the oxygen and that autopilot could have taken over.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Read a theory that a guy said there may have been a very small failure in the fuselage that lead to a slow cabin depressurization. That could have led to the entire cabin being knocked out before anyone knew to get the oxygen and that autopilot could have taken over.

Perhaps, but how would that explain the course change that now brought it over to the west?

Payne Stewart's Lear and the Helios flight both continued on with their autopilot routes until fuel starvation.

What the heck happened on that flight?

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by T@T

So bizarre, The military waits 4 days to release this info and allows countless search groups to look in the wrong area on the other side of the country.

Something really smells here.

If I were the military, the first thing I wouldn't do is run around telling everyone we spotted it. I'm sure there is sensitive information about how they saw it and what they were monitoring that had to go through clearance before telling Joe Q. Public.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Perhaps, but how would that explain the course change that now brought it over to the west?

Payne Stewart's Lear and the Helios flight both continued on with their autopilot routes until fuel starvation.

What the heck happened on that flight?

I just read the story about the Helios flight. How would you have liked to have been the poor bugger that went into the cabin just to find all the pilots out cold.

Question: When people get knocked out from the low oxygen in a depressurized cabin, are they lacking so much oxygen that they are dead within minutes (similar to any "confined space" oxygen deprived environment)?

[RedCoffee]

Originally Posted by nik-

I don't know if I know 200 of anything, besides humans.

I don't even know 200 humans.

[Acey]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Perhaps, but how would that explain the course change that now brought it over to the west?

Since it's time to throw out random speculation, maybe they were in the process of setting a heading to get back to KUL. Then passed out. Or something such

[taco.vidal]

My bet it is in fact hijacked and on a remote island. No prediction as to whether it safely landed.

[Ryan Coke]

I know over 1000 pilots . None have a flight sim in their house.

Tinordi, your small leak theory....totally unrealistic. Doesn't matter how small the leak is, when the altitude of the cabin gets over a specific altitude threshold, all the alerts would work as normal.

Now other possibilities, like not getting the O2 on fast enough and losing consciousness, or other types of system malfunctions are at least feasible. But whether it was a rapid decompression or a very slow one would make no difference.

[Northendzone]

Any theory involving aliens has to look more and more probable......

[JonDuke]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Read a theory that a guy said there may have been a very small failure in the fuselage that lead to a slow cabin depressurization. That could have led to the entire cabin being knocked out before anyone knew to get the oxygen and that autopilot could have taken over.

Is that, or similar to, this one?
(very aviation geek friendly)

http://www.lowyat.net/2014/03/was-th...-200-aircraft/

[worth]

Likely a Donnie Darko style tangent universe wormhole.

A friend of mine on face book posted this link:
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/...ource=malaysia

It's some digital imagery company that is trying to get the public to scan through images of the ocean (I'm guessing?) to look for wreckage. I don't know if it's legit or if it works, but he's an airport-engineer-thingy-guy?
I'll let the great powers of CP figure it out. Some people were saying that the website was crashing from over use? But what do I know...I'm just some stupid bimbo that's always trying to make jokes about serious sh*t.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by worth

Likely a Donnie Darko style tangent universe wormhole.

I'm sticking with Mega Shark grabbing the plane out of the air for the time being.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

A friend of mine on face book posted this link:
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/...ource=malaysia

It's some digital imagery company that is trying to get the public to scan through images of the ocean (I'm guessing?) to look for wreckage. I don't know if it's legit or if it works, but he's an airport-engineer-thingy-guy?
I'll let the great powers of CP figure it out. Some people were saying that the website was crashing from over use? But what do I know...I'm just some stupid bimbo that's always trying to make jokes about serious sh*t.

Had a look at it, you don't get to pick where you want to look and right now they are still in the the Gulf of Thailand

[JonDuke]

That Tomnod crowd sourcing website is very cool, but it's extremely laggy. Some maps take quite a long time to load, if they even do. And like T@T said, they are still in the Gulf of Thailand, which is, presumably, the wrong area to be searching anyway. They need to open it up to the Indian Ocean side.

[StrykerSteve]

Slow cabin depressurization wouldn't explain why the transponder was turned off.

[lazypucker]

Can the transponder and other communication devices be manually turn off, as in the case of the plane being hijacked?

[StrykerSteve]

From what I've read, yes.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Ryan Coke

I know over 1000 pilots . None have a flight sim in their house.

Tinordi, your small leak theory....totally unrealistic. Doesn't matter how small the leak is, when the altitude of the cabin gets over a specific altitude threshold, all the alerts would work as normal.

Now other possibilities, like not getting the O2 on fast enough and losing consciousness, or other types of system malfunctions are at least feasible. But whether it was a rapid decompression or a very slow one would make no difference.

So does this theory not make sense due to the "slow decompression" aspect?
http://www.lowyat.net/2014/03/was-th...-200-aircraft/

[Northendzone]

This is like where is Waldo but instead we are looking for a Boeing 777......