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Its crazy the amount of money spent on MH370... does anyone know how much it compares to the payout of the victim's families?

jeron 9y ago
Probably greater than the payout, but if I had a family member on that plane, I'd forgo the payout for search teams in hope of receiving closure
tim333 9y ago
Also there's not really much "mystery of MH370." It was almost certainly suicide/murder by the pilot. Though I guess there's no harm confirming that.
- robbiep 9y ago
  'almost certainly'? Do you have any sources for that? Everything I've read has suggested it as possible but never going stronger than probable
- rurban 9y ago
  No, it was with the same 'almost certainty' an overheating of a battery back in the load.
  - tim333 9y ago
    Ok maybe almost certain is a bit strong but the aircraft maneuvered after losing contact along a path towards the open ocean pretty similar to one the captain had practiced on his flight simulator less than a month before. Not sure how an overheating battery pack would do that. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-flew-suicide-route-on-home-simulator.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-fle...
    - mathgenius 9y ago
      Cabin filling with smoke, everyone panicking...
- gnu8 9y ago
  It was almost certainly boarded and hijacked in mid flight by commandos who flew the plane to khazakstan where it was used to fake the shoot down of MH17.
snowwrestler 9y ago
A big reason for it is the opportunity it might provide to discover or better understand a failure mode for jet transportation over the ocean. For example, consider another flight that disappeared mysteriously over the ocean: Air France 447. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 It took nearly 2 years to find and recover the flight recorders. Once they were analyzed, the results were shocking: the pilots flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ocean after a relatively minor technical fault. It had a major impact on pilot training and procedures across the globe. That's why they'll keep searching for MH370. Beyond closure for the families, there's a chance that there was something in that crash that we all need to know.
- gsnedders 9y ago
  Note that with AF447 we had a very good idea where it had sunk (from finding debris 36 hours after it was presumed crashed), and it still took two years to find the wreck. MH370 is orders of magnitude harder to find, and AF447 was a huge effort.
josefresco 9y ago
Does life insurance pay for incidents like this where there is no body / proof of death? Just read that NYT piece about the Everest climbers from India who died, and who's families could not collect because there was no body.

jeron 9y ago

Probably greater than the payout, but if I had a family member on that plane, I'd forgo the payout for search teams in hope of receiving closure

tim333 9y ago

Also there's not really much "mystery of MH370." It was almost certainly suicide/murder by the pilot. Though I guess there's no harm confirming that.

robbiep 9y ago
'almost certainly'? Do you have any sources for that? Everything I've read has suggested it as possible but never going stronger than probable
rurban 9y ago
No, it was with the same 'almost certainty' an overheating of a battery back in the load.
- tim333 9y ago
  Ok maybe almost certain is a bit strong but the aircraft maneuvered after losing contact along a path towards the open ocean pretty similar to one the captain had practiced on his flight simulator less than a month before. Not sure how an overheating battery pack would do that. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-flew-suicide-route-on-home-simulator.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-fle...
  - mathgenius 9y ago
    Cabin filling with smoke, everyone panicking...
gnu8 9y ago
It was almost certainly boarded and hijacked in mid flight by commandos who flew the plane to khazakstan where it was used to fake the shoot down of MH17.

snowwrestler 9y ago

A big reason for it is the opportunity it might provide to discover or better understand a failure mode for jet transportation over the ocean. For example, consider another flight that disappeared mysteriously over the ocean: Air France 447. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 It took nearly 2 years to find and recover the flight recorders. Once they were analyzed, the results were shocking: the pilots flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ocean after a relatively minor technical fault. It had a major impact on pilot training and procedures across the globe. That's why they'll keep searching for MH370. Beyond closure for the families, there's a chance that there was something in that crash that we all need to know.

gsnedders 9y ago
Note that with AF447 we had a very good idea where it had sunk (from finding debris 36 hours after it was presumed crashed), and it still took two years to find the wreck. MH370 is orders of magnitude harder to find, and AF447 was a huge effort.

josefresco 9y ago

Does life insurance pay for incidents like this where there is no body / proof of death? Just read that NYT piece about the Everest climbers from India who died, and who's families could not collect because there was no body.