RE: How the MH370 Flaperon Floated
October 21, 2015 at 2:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2015 at 3:15 am by mralstoner.)
(October 21, 2015 at 1:52 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: What would happen to systems like INS in the downtime? Would a computer reboot be necessary? What would that do to the avionics?
As I understand it:
- The plane is totally controllable from the electronics bay; you can disable cockpit controls.
- The plane went 100% electronically dark shortly after it left Malaysian airspace. No comms whatsoever.
- It stayed electronically dark but was tracked by radar as it traveled left.
- Shortly after it left radar coverage, the satellite comms strangely turned back on (rebooted). But no messages were sent or received apart from the hourly handshake/pings to keep a channel open. These pings contained just enough data to track the plane's path. And this is the data suspected of being faked by the hijackers.
So there was enough data to track the plane, but not in real time. It's almost as if someone wanted to leave a trail of bread crumbs (leading investigators in the wrong direction).
Quote:http://jeffwise.net/2015/07/13/the-myste...ot-part-2/
The Mysterious Reboot, Part 2
“At 18:22, MH370 vanished from primary radar coverage over the Malacca Strait. Three minutes later—about the amount of time it takes the Satellite Data Unit (SDU) to reboot—the satcom system connected with Inmarsat satellite 3F-1 over the Indian Ocean and inititated a logon at 18:25:27.”
After it left radar coverage, it was effectively in the clear, untraceable. It could have gone anywhere. And yet strangely the little satellite pings came back on.
I don't know what INS means. And I'm not sure about what systems need to be rebooted to commandeer the plane from the electronics bay.
