He sticks his nose in everything else...leader of the Muslim world and all....

 

The ever changing story.
Now it seems , instead of the last voice contact being only 3 minutes before disappearance , it was in fact
longer before , as it passed over the Greek island of Kea.
40 minutes before
then
The last calls to the plane ,
before it left Greek airspace ,
went unanswered.
The plane flew on into Egyptian airspace and then disappeared soon after.

So it seems the plane was flying , apparently normally still ,
after it/they failed to answer calls.
Suspicious ?

Also.
It is now stated that it finally disappeared off radar at 10,000 feet,
not 15.
If it was out of control ,
that. (should) significantly narrow the search area.
But , no debris found yet.
The lifejacket found was not from the/an aircraft.
(not surprising . the Mediterranean must be awash with them . with all the years of refugee traffic.)

The next important question.
finding the black boxes , flight recorders.
Looks to me they may be in some of the deepest med water , possibly down to about 4,000 meters , though if they're in the northern sector of search , maybe shallower.

You'd think in this day n age , with a mix of satellite imagery , data recording and GPS tracking , and radar , once they have time to analyse all , they should be able to get very accurate positioning.

Very likely a sub or two in the general area to , given where , and who knows what they can detect now days. The sound of splashdown ?

Strange , no one yet claimed responsibility. They not usually so tardy with claims.

 

Out of 86,000 "red card" passes , 85 have apparently been revoked in the recent past for ties to extremism ...

This airport touts to be one of the most secure in the world ... that really worked well for them this time around if indeed it turns to be true what the "quick to jump to conclusions" Americans are saying. Unless they know something that they aren't telling us ...

Then again it could also just be the bullshit media sensationalizing the story 15 minutes after news of the disappearence of the plane.

 

Go figure, I get a 250 dollar fine for dropping a candy wrapper on the ground and these guys litter an entire ocean with plane debris and nothing ...

 

It would seem that debris and passengers belongings have been spotted. I dont think there could be any doubt that the plane had crashed but the reasons are still unclear. No admission of guilt from any terror group and until the black box s recovered its still open

 

Or the pilot was fighting for his life

 

or for control ,
or was he alive ,
locked out ,
unconscious ,
or hijacked ,
burning ,
suicidal ? ?

Also we now are told that,
in fact they did not chat only three minutes before ,
but actually did not respond to calls .
though were still flying straight n level. [normally]
(apparently)
Last voice contact was way back over island of Kea about 40 minutes earlier.

[in this day n age and in that area , with the amount of traffic , why would a crew not respond to trafic control ? ? ]

Do they not have an emergency alarm signal ?
If not , WHY not ?

Two pilots And security men on board , we're told , and no response and no distress call ? ?

We need the CPR
until then your guess as good as anyone's , which is why I have not speculated.

 

So smoke was detected in a toilet at 3.26 ,
then another smoke alarm went off , 1 minute later
then the system stopped working at 3.29

Last contact 2.39
that must be radar contact
also confusing reporting of that time
Last voice contact 1.48
(Egypt local time)


Area of search means the black boxes are probably in 8 to 10,000 feet of water , in underwater terrain similar to the Alps.
Difficult
(I've worked seamounts in places where the bottom can drop to depths like 15,000 feet , and drop from a few hundred to 10,000 very quickly , steeply , even vertical drops up to 1,800 feet. Yes , we had the most powerful transducer we could buy , about the size of a tub)

Let's hope they have come to rest somewhere accessible.

 

If the plane was just on fire there'd be no reason to radically spiral down. It'd just continue on a descent to Cairo.

 

Wonder if there was an explosion or something.

 

It's all speculation right now. There's an old army adage: hurry up and wait. 'Bout all we can do 7ntil investigators can piece together what happened.

 

It is an adage I am familiar with.

 

France has been a target lately. Is it coincidence a flight leaving that country crashed?

 

Maybe. Maybe not.

 

One would think the entire Middle East is under 24/7 satellite observation?

 

How easy is it to remotely access and control a plane?

 

Now saying second smoke alert was from the main avionics cabinet.

That could be a very serious place to have a smoke generating type problem , for sure.

Surely could also cause control problems to ,
though all of that stuff has built in redundancy.
Doesn't it ?

Still leaves the major puzzle of no reply ,
and no distress call/signal.

(you'd think by now they'd have an emergency distress signaller ,
that has to be permanently attached to the certified pilot/pilots ,
that gives a clear and instant distress call the moment it is detached or interfered with in any way , or the pilot is disturbed unnaturally.
Much like kill switches we can have on boats , though much more sofisticated. obviously)


28 days left of pings , to locate the black boxes.
In such a relatively well defined search area , that should be doable ,
if they are working,
at least to hear them and narrow the search area if not actually pinpointed before they expire.

You'd figure one at least should be locatable/audible.

 

A hundred sq mile area of seabed is a pretty big haystack, even if the needle is sending radio signals

 

Apparently there are military exercises in the area from eleven countries.

From the blurb, "Additionally, participating forces will work together to practice procedures of search-and-rescue in cases where vessels are in distress".

That being the case are they involved in the search?

 

The ships were right on the money since the start. One turned off its own locator, why? It'd found the "black box".