The transponder may have been turned off by the pilot or the co-pilot. As far as why, you'll have to wait until after I talk to Dad tonight - he was a pilot in the USAF and is keeping with this via all his AF connections. There was a rumor yesterday saying the plane landed somewhere - that's why the victim cell phones were still connected when some of the relatives called some of the passengers an hour or two after they went missing. Go figure.
"US military now say they believe missing Malaysian plane HAS crashed hundreds of miles away in the INDIAN Ocean..." Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/malasian_plane/<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579955/No-wreckage-no-cracks-fuselage-no-secret-engine-data-Clueless-airline-officials-rule-EVERY-new-crash-theory-going-come-REAL-information.html> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Share Long <sharelon...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Richard, why would the transponder be turned off deliberately if the > plane was in trouble?! > > > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:59 AM, Richard J. Williams < > pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/13/2014 8:52 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > > *Why did the transponder stop transmitting?* > > > > That's in my next theory: The transponder was deliberately turned off. > > > > My bet is still on the aircraft's possible sudden, rapid > depressurization theory. If the pilots failed to put on masks they could > have blacked out from the lack of oxygen. So, this theory goes like this: > the sudden decompression of the plane for unknown reasons, but it could > have been from a crack in the fuselage; turning the plane to return to land > with auto-pilot on; failure to don face masks; the flight continues for > four hours; the plane runs out of fuel; and falls into the Indian Ocean. > > In this scenario, all the passengers and the pilots would be long dead > before the actual crash, since no cell phone calls came from any of the > passengers. This would also account for calls being made to some of the > passengers by their relatives - the phones were still connected but no > answer was heard. Go figure. > > 'There Is Nothing': Malaysian Authorities Do Not Find Missing Plane > Where Chinese Satellite Images Showed Possible Debris > > CBS News DC: > > http://washington.cbslocal.com/there-is-nothing-malaysian/plane/possible-debris/<http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/03/13/there-is-nothing-malaysian-authorities-do-not-find-missing-plane-where-chinese-satellite-images-showed-possible-debris/> > > > > > >
