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BABYBULL24
Can the ACARS System transmit underwater to a satellite?
From what i gather the transponders can be turned by a switch - the ACARS System can not without pulling the fuse.
Evidently the US is picking up the ACARS signal - so if it can't ping underwater - the plane is on land - crashed or not.
Bigburgh
JRCrowley
theabsolutetruth
reply to post by JRCrowley
It isn't about having as many 7s as possible, it is the significance of 777 specifically.
Uh, I am extremely aware of the significance of the number 777.
Did you notice my username by any chance?
No the member boeing777 should be looked at...that account predates all of this!
In fact I told him/her that back around page 15...lol
edit on 13-3-2014 by Bigburgh because: (no reason given)
(Reuters) - Communications satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after it went missing on Saturday, but the signals gave no information about where the stray jet was heading and little else about its fate, two sources close to the investigation said on Thursday.
But the "pings" indicated that the aircraft's maintenance troubleshooting systems were switched on and ready to communicate with satellites, showing the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was at least capable of communicating after it lost touch with Malaysian air traffic controllers.
The system transmits such pings about once an hour, according to the sources, who said five or six were heard. However, the pings alone are not proof that the plane was in the air or on the ground, the sources said.
While the troubleshooting systems were functioning, no data links were opened, the sources said, because the companies involved had not subscribed to that level of service from the satellite operator.
Link
theabsolutetruth
reply to post by JRCrowley
Then you should know it is the 777 significance rather than just 7 or as many 7s as possible. I was surprised you asked due to your screen name.
roadgravel
I saw something stating Beijing plus 1 hour of fuel. (Didn't give lbs or vol) No idea if it is correct.
ManiShuck
reply to post by EnhancedInterrogator
... but with the US believing it's in the Indian Ocean, it doesn't look promising.
roadgravel
WhoDat09
reply to post by onehuman
I was talking about this earlier tonight with my hubby, I told him I think the key to all of this lies with a pretty girl who was on the plane. What better way to get int the cockpit, if you know one of them takes pretty girls in there regularly, that would be the best way to do it! Find out his "type" then find a girl that matches! It would then be very easy fr the girl to let them in, or even for her to "dispatch" of the pilots.
Beautiful women are a well known espionage tactic.
I didn't see anything about the hijacking of a flight that was also heading to Beijing until your post. Even though it was in 2008, the Malaysian flight went missing on the anniversary of that attempt. This certainly isn't a coincidence.
onehuman
reply to post by WhoDat09
I think so too, especially when we have the fact that this happened on March 7th.
China says 19-year-old woman confessed to terror plot on plane
LINK SOURCE
roadgravel
BABYBULL24
Can the ACARS System transmit underwater to a satellite?
From what i gather the transponders can be turned by a switch - the ACARS System can not without pulling the fuse.
Evidently the US is picking up the ACARS signal - so if it can't ping underwater - the plane is on land - crashed or not.
Any link to material about this.
Anwar Ephraim was a [Israeli] Military Intelligence agent who was believed to be "responsible for organizing a massive and, if reports of the celebration are correct, frenzied party for the pilots of (an [Egyptian] air force base) just outside of Alexandria. The party was thrown on June 4, "less than twelve hours before the preemptive Israeli blitz…" They drank and ate and watched belly dancers until the "wee hours of the morning", and a little before Israeli pilots prepared for takeoff, Ephraim left Egypt on an international flight. Another Israeli became a close personal friend of an Egyptian belly dancer, who was presumed to have been privy to many state secrets.
BABYBULL24
I think the expert guy on Piers Morgan maybe let out a little too much info.
So the transponders were turned off & he said the pings the US are picking up are from the ACARS Systems - he said there is a panel in the cockpit that says ACARS and that whoever did was shutting down all communications from the plane. The thing is to totally shutdown this system you need to pull panel out and pull out the fuse behind it.
This guy speculated that the person that pulled the panel out thought it was shutdown but did not pull the fuse out behind the panel - that is why it is still pingng. The ACARS system sends out a signal - he described as a text/email to a data collection hub (a company - forget the name) several times a minute - it gives data on the sytems of the plane, engines, hydraulics etc...in turn that hub company sends the data on to the manufacturers of the systems - Rolls Royce for the engines.
Remember earlier in the week there where reports that Rolls Royce was receiving data from the plane and it was denied.
Okay - so this guy says that the signal is being sent out but it is not making the full loop to the hub collection company because somebody pulled the panel out - like a cell call in search of another phone.
Of course Piers Morgan doesn't ask this guy the million dollar question - can it transmit underwater?
I would think if it has a fuse and it's underwater it can't.
So my guess it's crashed on land or sitting on a tarmac somewhere.
edit on 14-3-2014 by BABYBULL24 because: (no reason given)
PhotonEffect
reply to post by WatchingFromtheShadows
WatchingFromtheShadows
Is it possible that the plane was secretly hijacked by the US in order to gain access to certain people on the plane? Considering the flight was full of Chinese citizens, doing so would certainly be risky and could potentially serve as the catalyst for open war, but if the prize were great enough (defense contractors with game changing stealth tech knowledge), I wouldn't put it past our government to try something like this.
Supposing we use your theory-
Why would the US then tell the world to start looking in the area where they have the plane?
BABYBULL24
No it came from the expert on CNN - Piers Morgan was hosting it around Midnight EST.