This weekend, I watched the 3 episode series of MH370's disappearance (8 Mar 2014)....from Netflix. If you have access to Netflix....it's worth watching.
So the two things I never realized from the whole story?
1. Once it went 'dark'....about 90 minutes pass, and this satellite-communications device cranks up....giving a 'hand-shake' every hour....for seven hours. More or less....a ping.
But here's the odd thing....it's in a 'bay' under the first-class section, and you HAD to go down into this area, to flip the switch (you can't do it from the cockpit). Then adding mystery to this....it's not something that pilots are taught (it'd be a ground repair technician who'd usually mess with it).
So you have to physically turn it on. Why leave a path of bread-crumbs at this point 90 minutes into the mystery flight?
Does the ping indicate your position? Not really....it can judge the ping time and say how far you are from last ping....that's all. So it's either telling you a north projection or a south projection. The assumption is...south.
2. They got into this last-minute add-on cargo.....two pallets of supposed electronics gear (with lithium batteries).....which was not x-rayed.
No one could really explain why the x-ray deal was skipped....other than to meet the time issue.
If you have 3 hours....yeah, it's worth watching.
