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Just noticing the medium author, this guy posts fantastic breakdowns of plane crashes on r/catastrophicfailure Have to say the simulator part makes me lean hea
by hiidrew 4y ago
Just noticing the medium author, this guy posts fantastic breakdowns of plane crashes on r/catastrophicfailure
Have to say the simulator part makes me lean heavily towards the pilot crashing it purposefully, from the article -
"The most widely reported piece of evidence tying Zaharie to the disappearance was a course he had charted on his home flight simulator about a month before the crash. Zaharie had a number of hobbies, including paragliding and flying model airplanes, but he also spent a lot of time at home on his computer playing flight simulator games. He sometimes uploaded videos of himself playing on his YouTube channel, where he comes off as affable and knowledgeable, if a bit socially awkward.
In 2014, a leaked Malaysian police report revealed that among Zaharie’s saved flight simulator sessions was a very odd route which ran up the Strait of Malacca, turned south after passing Sumatra, and then flew straight down into the Southern Indian Ocean before terminating in the vicinity of the seventh arc. Not only did the track resemble MH370’s actual flight path, it also contained a number of other intriguing details. For example, the track wasn’t really a track — rather, it was a series of brief clips lasting no more than a few seconds each, indicating that Zaharie had programmed it in advance then skipped along it to various points without actually playing through the entire hours-long flight. Furthermore, although initial reports indicated that the track had been intentionally saved by the user, later analysis showed that it was kept only in the system files, and certainly was not meant to be found. Was this a dry run? It seems too odd to be a coincidence."
Also discovering that black box is a misnomer is mildly humorous, these are apparently orange! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder
- Railsify 4y ago'Black box' is referring to the lack of visibility inside the box and to the fact that you can't tamper with it, what goes in stays in.
- LarryMullins 4y agoFlight recorders are called black boxes because they originally were black-colored boxes. "Black box" in the sense that you are describing is an unrelated term.
- travisjungroth 4y agoWikipedia agrees! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder#Terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder#Terminology
- ignoramous 4y agonb: Wikipedia favours verifiability over truth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:vnt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:vnt > Wikipedia values accuracy, but it requires verifiability. Wikipedia does not try to impose "the truth" on its readers, and does not ask that they trust something just because they read it in Wikipedia. We empower our readers. We don't ask for their blind trust.
- wpietri 4y agoYou sound like you have a problem with that, but I can't fathom what alternative course you'd rather them pursue.
- ignoramous 4y agoIt is just a note. I don't mean it to sound anything other than what Wikipedia itself states. I see a tonne of "Wikipedia agrees" but none of "Wikipedia is a living document" and it isn't its place to be a gospel of truth...
- outworlder 4y agoWikipedia is not and cannot, as per their own policies, be the primary source. 'Wikipedia agrees' is shorthand for 'the sources mentioned by this particular Wikipedia article agree'
- loeg 4y agoI think it's shorthand for "the collective Wikipedia editors agree," which is not exactly the same thing as saying every claim is backed by any particular source.
- moffkalast 4y agoAnd Valve would sue them if they called it The Orange Box.
- TylerE 4y agoIf you enjoy this sort of thing, I'd encourage you to check out this guy. https://www.youtube.com/user/blancolirio https://www.youtube.com/user/blancolirio
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- adding mentour pilot: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiNyr6QSO28P2bKMcv2O_lK83jsR0A9-W https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiNyr6QSO28P2bKMcv2O_... --
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago74 Gear deserves a mention https://youtube.com/@74gear https://youtube.com/@74gear
- canjobear 4y agoFor reference, Zaharie's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@catalinapby1 https://www.youtube.com/@catalinapby1
- ak_111 4y agoImagine one day all of a sudden a low-quality few seconds long video is uploaded to the channel showing only someone filming their feet as they stroll on on a beach.
- moffkalast 4y agoWell the found wreckage pieces apparently point to a controlled ditching, so it's not entirely impossible for the guy to be alive somehow.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoWhile not impossible, it's unlikely - he'd have to survive the crash first (and given it's likely the plane ran out of fuel and power it would be more difficult), and even then, given he went all the way out to the middle of nowhere, it would not have been his intent. Even if he did survive the crash and get out before the plane sunk and got on a life raft with a planeload of supplies like food and water, he'd still have a very low chance of being found or washing up somewhere. And it took a while before they even started to look in the general direction of where the plane would have crashed, so it's not likely he'd be found that way either. It took nearly a year for debris to start washing ashore in Africa.
- loeg 4y agoIn the middle of the Indian ocean, thousands of miles from land. It's unlikely.
- moffkalast 4y agoYeah he almost certainly drowned or died on impact, but imagine if he brought a parachute and jumped out a bit before, then got picked up by a friend in a boat. That would be some serious DB Cooper shit. Wouldn't really make sense for a guy committing suicide though I guess.
- duxup 4y agoIt is very strange. At the same time I imagine a lot of actions in flight simulators are odd choices you might not make in real life. I know I did a lot of poor flying….
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI couldn't fly seriously in a flight sim, I'd get bored quickly and do a loop or dramatic crashes, lol. I mean I'd still like to try out the new MS Flight Simulator because it's impressive technology.
- wiredone 4y agoAs a trained pilot, flight planning is a huge part of your job. Navigation is also a big part of the job. if you assumed you had to turn off parts of your nav equipment to avoid detection, then visual reference (ie flying the path to visually memorise/familirise yourself with wayppoints) would be something you'd certainly do - and a flightsim would be perfect for this.
- monkeywork 4y agowas the terrain modeling good enough at that time to really train you for that? Current MSFS sure but the version he was running?
- gymbeaux 4y agoSure. Flight Simulator X came out around 2006 and at max settings looked great. Current FS is obviously better, but FSX was adequate.
- SteveNuts 4y agoMiegs field. Cessna 172. Enable slew mode.
- gymbeaux 4y agoFlight Sim 95? Outstanding.
- generalizations 4y ago> it was a series of brief clips lasting no more than a few seconds each, indicating that Zaharie had programmed it in advance then skipped along it to various points without actually playing through the entire hours-long flight I'd be curious which parts of the flight path those clips represented. Were they at important navigational landmarks? Were they nice vistas, places he wanted to see before a suicidal plunge? If they were only a few seconds each, that might indicate that he was checking those points for intentional reasons, rather than for fun.
- _s 4y agoI could be remembering wrong - but he skipped the "straight" bits, and only flew the parts where his interaction was needed.
- hammock 4y ago[flagged]
- rootusrootus 4y agoI'd rate the ability of the US Gov't to successfully keep something like that a secret to be roughly zero, plus or minus zero.
- jjav 4y ago> I'd rate the ability of the US Gov't to successfully keep something like that a secret to be roughly zero, plus or minus zero. You'd be very wrong. There are hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) classified missions going on all the time involving large amount of people. And aside for the exceedingly rare whistleblower, all of them are kept secret for decades or more until they get declassified (sometimes never). (Not trying to give any credibility to the previous comment, just commenting on how effectively governments keep classified secrets.)
- rootusrootus 4y agoAs I said, 'like that.' It is difficult to imagine a reasonable comparison between all of the mundane secret missions going on every day, and shooting down an airliner. This is on the level of 9/11 conspiracies. It's just not possible for something that huge to stay secret for long.
- ceejayoz 4y ago> There are hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) classified missions going on all the time involving large amount of people. Not many of them involve murdering an entire planeload of civilians.
- jjav 4y ago> Not many of them involve murdering an entire planeload of civilians. You of course don't know that, not having access to compartmentalized top secret material. If you did, you couldn't post here (or anywhere) about it.