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In reply to the discussion: Malaysian PM: 'According to This New Data, Flight MH370 Ended in S. Indian Ocean' [View all]catbyte
(39,320 posts)35. We'll probably never know the "why" of it, but
I just keep thinking about the Payne Stewart plane crash & what happened to them. A slow oxygen leak in the fuselage could've disoriented the MH-370 pilots & caused them to do weird stuff without realizing anything was wrong. Hypoxia is a very insidious thing. Stewart's pilots didn't detect anything amiss either, but started veering off course before blacking out. When the MH-370 leak got worse, the passengers & crew were rendered unconscious & the plane flew until it ran out of fuel just like Payne Stewart's. That seems more plausible than anything else to me.
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Malaysian PM: 'According to This New Data, Flight MH370 Ended in S. Indian Ocean' [View all]
Hissyspit
Mar 2014
OP
Unfortunately it isn't really a surprise. The media should be ashamed of themselves the way they
lostincalifornia
Mar 2014
#2
I am betting that some of the media - Faux, I am sneering at you - will switch to
djean111
Mar 2014
#3
faux should NOT be allowed to advertise their station as a news network
lostincalifornia
Mar 2014
#27
The plane had flown thousands of miles off course, beyond the limit to return to land
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2014
#54
It's the Southern Ocean. If you're in the water, survivability is measured in minutes.
Xithras
Mar 2014
#46
I'm still waiting for that moment that Malaysia anounces that according to their data:
NutmegYankee
Mar 2014
#17
reported low flight over malaysia? was correct and out to sea until altitude met sea level
Sunlei
Mar 2014
#22
I think pilots can program a turn around, so with an emergency they can hit one button.
Sunlei
Mar 2014
#34
We have both Thai and Malaysian radar saying the plane flew roughly west to the Malacca Strait
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2014
#63