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Southeast Asia

Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?

2014-03-18

Here's another theory. I don't know enough about commercial jets and flying them to judge it, but it's as believable as anything else posited by the "experts" and newsreaders.

Starting with a set of facts that have been made available publically and verified over the past few days, I first plotted MH370s course onto an aviation IFR map which shows the airways and waypoints used to navigate the skies. I plotted the point where it stopped transmitting ADS-B information at 1721UTC. I then plotted the Malaysian military radar track from that point towards VAMPI, GIVAL, and then onward toward IGREX on P628 ending with where the plane should be at 1815UTC when military radar lost contact.

Nothing profound there but then I looked to see what other planes were in the air at 1815UTC and I looked to see exactly where they were positioned in the sky and where they were flying. The picture started to develop when I discovered that another Boeing 777 was en-route from Singapore over the Andaman Sea.

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Posted by:Barbara

#1 Following another B-777 close at night would be very challenging. If radar was sketchy, then you may get away with the lack of a good primary hit. However two primary images on a radar screen to a good operator would be seen as some kind of anomaly.

I would guess that the success would depend upon the radar environment or lack thereof.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-03-18 21:44

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