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The Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight Climbed To 45,000 Feet
2014 Mar 17, 11:39pm 411 views 1 comment
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Last night Elena shared with me some news about the missing Malaysian airliner. There is now an indication that it climbed to 45,000 feet. Elena told me that the goal of that climb was to render all of the passengers unconscious. She asked me if the pilots had oxygen masks. I assured her they did.
Unclear because that's unconfirmed data. It's from a NYT report allegedly from US sources based on what the Malaysian military radar said. It's just as easily possible that this never happened or that there was a glitch on the screen, especially since it also claims a 40,000 fps dive.
Also, the rationale is somewhat silly and seems to be thought of as reasonable by people who don't fully understand what happens at high altitude. You could just as easily incapacitate passengers at 35,000 feet, but it would take about a minute instead of 15 seconds. In addition, the oxygen masks would come down regardless, so they'd have at least another 12-20 minutes of oxygen, if not longer.
There are much easier ways of incapacitating your passengers. A slow leak would be just as effective and would gradually put them to sleep without them knowing or being able to know better.
Commercial pilots are technically required to use oxygen masks above 41,000 feet.
The other thing I'd add is that the certification for the 777 is for 43,100, and there's at least a small question of whether the flight could reasonably get to 45,000 feet depending on how much it was loaded at the time and how much thrust was available.
The master thread on this topic is here:
I began flying on jet planes in June of 1967. My first flight was on a Boeing 707 going from Houston to Los Angeles. I was on my way to US Navy boot camp. I told my mother and father that it was thrilling to be able to urinate while flying at 35,000 feet.
In all of my almost 47 years of flying I must have flown some several million miles in the air allover the world. There was only one time that I thought that I was going to die on a plane. It was on a flight between Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires in February of 1980. The plane encountered such violent turbulence that I honestly believed that it was going to have a structural failure and break apart in the air. My palms were still sweating after we landed in Buenos Aires.
In my flying career I have flown as fast as 700 miles per hour. I have been as high as 42,000 feet.
Last night Elena shared with me some news about the missing Malaysian airliner. There is now an indication that it climbed to 45,000 feet. Elena told me that the goal of that climb was to render all of the passengers unconscious. She asked me if the pilots had oxygen masks. I assured her they did.
Elena believed that whoever was controlling the plane depressurized the cabin. She thought that it was to make the passengers pass out. I am sure that it was to kill all of the passengers. Hopefully the passengers fell off to sleep and never knew they were dying.
Statistically flying is safer than driving down the freeway. But some people in the air get very unlucky. This appears to be the case with the passengers on that flight.