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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.MH370 disappeared a decade ago. Here's what we know about one of aviation's biggest mysteries
By EILEEN NG KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Bordeaux
The problem was the poor construction of the airplane. You simply need to see the news in the past year about BOEING doors falling off, missing bolts, rushed construction, and bad sensors. A bad single sensor was the biggest issue with that particular plane. That single sensor that could easily be destroyed by balloons or birds determined if the planes nose was level, faced up or down. When that sensor breaks, the plane automatically becomes automatically unlevel because the company added massive engines to that particular plane that made it fly uneven in flight. That one sensor was the only thing keeping the plane level.
GBR48
Depressurisation causes hypoxia which generates a sense of euphoria and impairs judgement. Before you realise there is a problem, you may be beyond doing anything about it.
There is no reason to assume that anything nefarious happened. It just can't be ruled out.
GPS is regularly spoofed, which would affect instrumentation, but commercial planes are not designed to be piloted remotely, from the ground. If the tech option is not built-in, it cannot be used.
There should be an easy way of retro-fitting the new alert system into all airliners, or at least getting them to ping their position at regular intervals using a satellite phone chipset in a small, powered device. It's simple stuff.
Yrral
GB,An average citizen can track an airplane using with an Adbs receiver,it not like the pilot was hiding his location,I track the plane from his flight path to last location,it was 400 miles,controllers know a plane should not be off course by 400 miles Google ADBS Reciever Kit
USNinJapan2
Bordeaux
Absolutely unfounded. The MH370 was a 12 year-old B777, one of the safest airliners ever produced, and there were no known issues with this particular aircraft. You have zero evidence that the disappearance was due to a design or manufacture problem with this type of airframe.
Ken
@Bordeaux this isn't about politics from this year, it was a secure plane an unrelated to more recent issues, read up on your knowledge and facts pertaining to this story before trying to comment that mess you're talking about
Open-minded
@USNinJapan2
That was easily proven false! A quick search and a lot of problems can be found!
Try again!
Open-minded
The only one who brought politics into the conversation was you.
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I think "Ken" and "USNinJapan2" both need to read up on the topic before attacking other posters!
USNinJapan2
Open-minded
Airworthiness directives, ranging from minor to serious, are issued for aircraft types all the time. What matters is whether any wide spread defects that could have caused this crash were discovered fleet-wide after airlines inspected their airframes following the directive you linked (or any others). The answer is there weren't and there was no grounding of B777 fleets, and Bordeux's offhand claim that the aircraft design or production was the cause of the disappearance is groundless. Blaming this incident from a decade ago involving an airframe built 22 years ago on issues Boeing Co. has had only in the last several years is asinine and doesn't change the fact that the B777 has statistically been one of the safest airliners in the air since its introduction.