Thursday, May 15, 2014

Musings: New Revelations of MH370?

In the chart of MH370, Pallas is on Regulus, something which I've missed out completely until few weeks ago. Transit Pallas is now crossing Regulus again for the past few days.

Do you sense something? I think people will pick up something related to the plane these few days intuitively.

Here are 2 articles related to MH370 that I came across today.

First article was about the Bluefin-21 submersible used for the M370's underwater search having a "transponder problem".

“Examination of the communications problem has established that a hardware defect exists in the transponder mounted on the Ocean Shield and a defect may also exist in the transponder mounted on the Bluefin-21,” JACC said. 

"This inhibits the ability of the two devices to communicate with each other," the statement added.

Second article was about a Malaysia Airlines plane getting struck in the belly by a ground vehicle.


An odd feeling of mine.

The transponder problem in the drone could very well be the same problem MH370 had. There was a defect in MH370's transponder that inhibit communication between MH370 with the ground radar.  It was a problem that could only be fixed with the right "spare parts" but would delay usage. So it was never fixed properly.

The ground accident could very well imply problems were noticed while the plane was still on the ground but ignored.

I do not think the transponder was turned off (based on previous entry) as the media has been reporting but rather spolit. And this could be how it is broken.

So how long have planes been flying with faulty transponder? Isn't it about time the search team for MH370 consider the possibility of technical problems on the plane?

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