Originally Posted by Ronnie
To better analogise the Geography for most readers, I make the following analogy.

Imagine a flight takes off from London with a destination to the North East, e.g. Stockholm, Sweden.
As I stated in the opening line of my post above, I used the Northern Hemisphere geography to ANALOGISE the Anticipated Flight Path versus that Actually taken by the Malaysian Flight MH370... I felt using the geography of the Northern Hemisphere would better explain to most readers just how FAR off course the plane actually flew, i.e. Thousands of miles away from where one might have expected the plane to actually be [currently searching for the plane west of Perth, Australia... when they might have expected the plane to be about 4,000 miles to the North East of the current search location].

I probably should have used a Map, but that is in my 2nd post above... and it clearly shows:

a) the initial flight path of the plane being North-East towards its destination Beijing

b) and then after its Transponder is turned off, it CAREFULLY flies around the northern tip of Indonesia, careful to avoid entering its Airspace... and then turns south... essentially not the flight path taken by a plane in any kind of distress.

While the primary Transponder might be switched off, it doesn't explain how the backup Transponder was also switched off... and the plane had two.

Likewise, it doesn't explain why despite repeated radio messages to the plane, the Transponder was not turned back on again.

And finally, it doesn't explain why after the Transponder was switched off, the Plane flew for another 7-8 Hours, with no Radio communications with the Ground whatsoever.

It's not any ONE thing that makes this flight seem 'weird' to most casual observers and experts... it's the COMBINATION of all the events, curious flight paths and lack of communication or distress signals, despite the plane being having enough power to fly, that makes this all seem very 'curious' indeed.

Last edited by Ronnie; 2014-04-28 16:54.
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