Edwin Henry

I think they were thinking Air Asia or Malindo will buy them over to kill the competition. When it only existed in the internet, stickers pasted on cars and other forms to create public awareness, it cost them peanu But if AK and OD had 10 planes each, this plan may have worked and someone will run to the bank laughing.

The link below is the actual AI182 CVR recording, this 747 disintegrated in the air at 29,000 feet by an explosive device placed in the forward cargo compartment. Go to 1:48. Most passengers were found with no or little clothes in the Atlantic Ocean suggesting a massive in-flight break-up. Out of 329 passengers, only 100 odd were recovered.

When it went missing, MH reported it had 7:30 hrs fuel remaining, whether they factored in the first 40 mins of flying, if not, approx 8 hours of fuel would have been loaded.

Any spot within the corridor was where the last contact captured by the satellite at 8:11am. It may not suggest the route taken by the aircraft. It could have been flown to any of that spot from the last known location (somewhere north in the straits of malacca). The fuel should cover right up to the end of the arc, kazakhstan or south indian ocean, i think!

well if 8:11am (Malaysian TIme) was the last contact with the satellite, then that must the point where it crashed. With the fuel onboard they were supposed to have landed beijing in 1:41 hours ago. They must be running on reserves and crashed from fuel starvation. Then how can they assume that it can go as far as Kazakhstan, unless i missed something in the news.

Why was the Indigo pilot very reluctant to declare a pan or mayday? Any penalty or extra charges to be paid to the authorities when declaring it?