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Mar 28th 2014 | 1:14 pm

#301

MarkG

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Re: Malaysian 777

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Originally Posted by Aviator

However if 300 people all run to the front end to beat up the door, the aircraft would dive out of the sky anyway, unless there was some really big guy sitting at the back balancing the whole thing out.

Good point

Mar 28th 2014 | 1:17 pm

#302

Siouxie

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Re: Malaysian 777

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Originally Posted by MillieF

And you have a great and happy weekend

The idea that 'anyone' could do this and also whilst the passengers were aware or even vaguely aware of what was happening is more than disturbing. How is any family member going to come to terms with this?

I don't think they would have been aware though - else surely one of them would have managed to send out a text or a call (if not a passenger then a crew member). I think flying at 45000 feet for 23 minutes would have knocked them all out cold. Better that (for the relatives) than to think of them panic stricken for 7 hours.

Mar 31st 2014 | 3:13 am

#303

Pulaski

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Re: Malaysian 777

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Originally Posted by Siouxie

I don't think they would have been aware though - else surely one of them would have managed to send out a text or a call (if not a passenger then a crew member). ..... Better that (for the relatives) than to think of them panic stricken for 7 hours.

Agreed.

FWIW Even if they weren't flying over the ocean, I read that you need to be below about 10,000 ft and going slower than about 250 mph for a mobile phone antenna to be able to handle a call or text. Over the open ocean no mobile phone related communication is possible. .... I do not know if a satellite mobile phone would work.

Mar 31st 2014 | 9:35 am

#304

MillieF

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Re: Malaysian 777

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Originally Posted by MarkG

The cockpit door may be reinforced, but not against 300 people beating on it for seven hours. I think it's pretty clear that the passengers were not conscious of what was going on.

Yes, very probably, but if YOU had family on that flight, how do you go forward from here...as the wife of a commercial pilot it is just too horrible to contemplate.