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New MH370 debris suggests that pilots lowered landing gear
- bionade24 4y agohttps://archive.md/xLgCE https://archive.md/xLgCE
- polishdude20 4y agoI don't see how this can signal criminal intent
- mariuolo 4y ago> I don't see how this can signal criminal intent It's hard to imagine a legitimate reason for lowering the landing gear if not landing. On water, as the article explains, that would make things even worse.
- uberman 4y agoIt seems easy to imagine that the crew was panicked an believed (even erroneously) that extending the landing gear while attempting to land was the correct action. I find it absurd that anyone would find this proof or even a suggestion that the plane was deliberately crashed. If the pilot or other member of the crew wanted to crash, an unrecoverable nosedive or stall out seems much easier to concoct than "deploying the gear" at the last second once a nighttime middle of the ocean landing was required. How long would it take to deploy the gear? 15 seconds? Plenty of time for someone else to rescind the request. How long to intentionally nose dive from 2k feet ensuring death? I'm guessing it would be almost instantaneous.
- bionade24 4y agoIn my opinion, more humans would suggest landing in water without gear is better. Additionally, the Sully incident is famous enough that a pilot should have read about it. To me, this move is more logical if you assume the pilot wanted to die as quick as possible, the nose wouldn't tear apart, only the back like it happened with this passenger jet: https://youtu.be/KCuh_2M4o3A?t=293 https://youtu.be/KCuh_2M4o3A?t=293
- uberman 4y agoTerrifying to be sure, but compare the potential survivability of that crash with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPU6yZetlw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPU6yZetlw If you wanted to kill everyone on the plane you would not attempt a conventional water landing gear or not.
- bionade24 4y agoIdk if I'm drifting too far to support my argument, but I'd assume the pilot may didn't want to experience the g forces or was unsure till the end. In the end, I'm not settled on this & we really need to find & recover the plane.
- Arnt 4y agoIt shows that the pilot was awake and alert enough to lower the landing gear at that point in time. Awake ⇒ intent.
- strangattractor 4y agoAs if intentionally flying the plane to an unknown spot in the middle of the Indian Ocean and running out of fuel isn't criminal enough.