Malaysia Airlines MH370 - Missing Plane

[scottish]

Yeah, but I'd imagine if they checked the primary radar (obviously not built into the secondary radar if it's dropped it) then it would have been on there (as military tracked it it obviously did appear on it) but whether or not the airport had used primary and if not why not is still to be answered.

[Calum0812]

Yeah, but I'd imagine if they checked the primary radar (obviously not built into the secondary radar if it's dropped it) then it would have been on there (as military tracked it it obviously did appear on it) but whether or not the airport had used primary and if not why not is still to be answered.

Not sure about En Route. As I said to Matt the other day, if this accident had happened in UK airspace we'd know a lot more about it. Feels like info is being kept back - very weird

[xxMATTGxx]

Not sure about En Route. As I said to Matt the other day, if this accident had happened in UK airspace we'd know a lot more about it. Feels like info is being kept back - very weird

Yeah if a commercial airline lost contact or suddenly "disappeared" in UK airspace from radar we would easily send a couple of RAF Typhoons up for sure just to idenity the target and to make sure they weren't hijacked etc etc. We have done it in the past!

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[Calum0812]

Yeah if a commercial airline lost contact or suddenly "disappeared" in UK airspace from radar we would easily send a couple of RAF Typhoons up for sure just to idenity the target and to make sure they weren't hijacked etc etc. We have done it in the past!

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Isn't it said we have one of the best airforces in the world though? Sad really, just needs to be justified what happened to all of those people. A 777 can't just DISAPPEAR with 200 and odd people on...

[xxMATTGxx]

Isn't it said we have one of the best airforces in the world though? Sad really, just needs to be justified what happened to all of those people. A 777 can't just DISAPPEAR with 200 and odd people on...

Well one of the best but it's not like Malaysia don't have the equipment in terms of fighter jets.

[Woutou]

Last words before transmission went off was from the co-pilot he said'' Alright, Goodnight'' Pretty creepy

[scottish]

That's been known for like 6 days, what's creepy about it?

[karter]

how is goodnight creepy

[xxMATTGxx]

From the earlier conversation we was having - It is most unlikely/highly impossible:

If #MH370 was going to shadow any other jetliner, it would have to be done visually in the middle of the night with no TCAS display.

— Jon Ostrower (@jonostrower) March 17, 2014

[Calum0812]

From the earlier conversation we was having - It is most unlikely/highly impossible:

If #MH370 was going to shadow any other jetliner, it would have to be done visually in the middle of the night with no TCAS display.

— Jon Ostrower (@jonostrower) March 17, 2014

I know I should be asleep...
TCAS relies on the transponder being on. If they switched their transponder off, they'd have been invisible to the other aircrafts TCAS. However. To fool primary radar into thinking they were the same aircraft, you'd be looking at a couple of hundred feet together - not likely.