Its not the going under thats the main problem, its the crashing in to 10 meter high concrete walls (called waves) at nearly 300KmH. Here is what happens :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD2AYvI2s5w

And thats on a calm sea, with maybe 1-2 meter high waves.

I say that based on earlier reports that indicated ACARS had been turned off manually and the flight computer reprogrammed to turn before the last radio contact, which would imply a deliberate pilot action for reasons he didnt want to share with traffic control. But I do not know what the source of those reports were and the timing of events seems to have been altered since, undermining most of my hypothesis. Even so, if I were to commit suicide by crashing a plane, Id probably prefer it remained a mystery too, if for no other reason as to save my family the shame.  Disabling all comms and flying it to the most remote part of the ocean where it may never be found,  is a good way of achieving that.

There was nothing but ocean and planes tend to go down when they run out of fuel. Whether it went straight down or at an angle makes no difference.

If you are hinting at the possibility it ditched mostly intact, no passenger plane ever ditched intact on an ocean to my knowledge (lakes and rivers is something else), especially not an ocean as rough as the one where it went down. You'd also need to explain how the crew would be able to do the impossible by doing a successful ditching but were unable to prevent the plane from flying 1000s of miles of course for the previous 6+ hours.

As it stands now, the most likely explanation IMO is still pilot suicide or something similar to Helios flight 522:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

WHich also flew on for many hours with everyone on board unconscious /dead (except possibly one crew member).

The only thing clearly different here is that transponder and other comms were disabled, which could easily be explained by an electrical fire which would be the underlying cause for the oxygen deprivation/incapacitation of the crew.

Whatever happened, if that plane was ever anywhere near the places that the satellite data points to, there is no feasible way people onboard could still be alive.

There is nothing magical about increasing your orders at the fab. Are you suggesting their fab is running out of capacity? To be fair, I have no idea which fab they use, but given the process node and their location, Im going to guess its UMC. UMC has over 10 fabs, just one of which (Fab 12i in Singapore) has the capacity to produce 45000 12" 55nm wafers per month. HOw many chips is that? Well, again Ill have to guess, since I dont know their die size. Given that the packaged chip is 8x8mm, it would be surprising if the die was bigger than 4x4mm. At that size, there would be almost 4000 chip candidates per 12" wafer.

So that single fab theoretically has the capacity to produce a guestimated 4000x45000= 180 million chips, good for 270PH per month

Of course, Bitmain will not be UMC's only customer, there will be yield issues, etc, so  the number will be substantially lower, but whatever it is, it may not be "infinite", but its staggering and chip production capacity at this point, is clearly still a non issue.

edit: one more thing; there is a still a significant "latency" in the production process, it will take UMC ~2 months to produce whatever Bitmain ordered. But just think what the likely consequence is of that. Bitmain was a tiny startup likely with limited funds. Now they are swimming in money and can afford to order however much they need/want. The result of that is probably only just beginning to hit the hashrate graphs.

Pls stop watching all that anti iranian US war propaganda and get a grip.  The idea that Iran has anything to do with this is ludicrous on so many levels. Iran doesnt need to hijack an airliner to get their hands on one, they already have plenty of airbusses and boeings. Not that they would need an airliner to deliver a weapon, they have quite capable missiles. Iran would have no interest whatsoever in some terrorist attack; Iran if anything, is an important enemy of islamic (almost exclusively Sunni) terrorism. Iran does support groups that the US calls terrorists, but thats because these groups fight against the Israeli occupation and apartheid. Do consider that these same groups, like Hezbollah also fight Al qaeda, in places like Syria, but when Al Qaeda fights a regime the US doesnt like, they just call them rebels or freedom fighters, rather than terrorists or muslim extremists. The nations that actually control, fund and arm these sunni terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda,  are your so called allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, not Iran.

Getting off topic, so lastly,  why on earth would Iran hijack a plane full of Chinese, when China is one of their few remaining trade partners?

Im not an aeronautical engineer, but I guess neither are you. The author (who is a pilot at least) claims that the right procedure in this case would be to pull all "busses" (fuses I assume), which in all likelyhood would disable any and all contact methods. Unless some of them arent fused, which seems unlikely.

Anyway, not saying his explanation is the truth, I have no idea, but it does sound like a workable hypothesis, even though it doesnt seem to rhyme with all the facts either.

How much do you want to risk on that guarantee? Words are cheap. Make public your demo site, put up a 100BTC bounty for anyone hacking it, and then your words carry weight. Until then, its just that, words.


Im no hacker, but lets assume that I am. Why would I spend time finding flaws in a demo site? Why would I just not wait until someone actually uses your code so I have a hotwallet to empty?

And how am I going to find it if you dont opensource it? Seriously, this is a disaster waiting to happen, and assuming you are legit, you do not want to have sold unvetted software to an exchange. What makes you think you will not be held liable if (or rather when) it gets hacked?

The only way I *might* see this work is if you opensource it with a commercial licence.  Let anyone check your code, but dont allow its usage for for profit enterprises without paid license.  Not that that will guarantee a lot, it would take at the very least a significant bug finding bounty that has run for quite some time before Id even consider using an exchange running your code,.

For the record, there are plenty of similar opensource projects:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87836.0

So who is going to vet this code has no security holes (or backdoors) when you dont opensource it, and whoever is buying most likely doesnt have the skills?

Did you read it?

In the case of a fire, the first response is to pull the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one. If they pulled the busses, the plane would go silent.

Moreover an electrical fire may have disabled radio (and transponder) before the pilots figured out there was one.

Here is a quite reasonable yet "mundane" explanation:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

Whats your ebay account, and can you prove its yours? I might be interested.

Yep. Lets also not forget their board has been running fine since January 18th:

The search area now covers almost half the planet. Its already tricky to find debris if you know where to look, its a monumental task if you have no idea where to look. People (myself included) just dont grasp how vast the ocean's are.


Chances of landing softly on an ocean are slim to non existent. I cant recall a single instance where a passenger plane landed mostly intact on an ocean (river or lake is a different story).

My god, what a bunch of nonsense. Not even worth debunking, but FWIW, Freescale is a publicly traded company, it doesnt belong to any Rothschild (anymore), it IPO'd in 2011. Moreover patents are filed under the name of company employees, but they belong to the company. Lastly, Freescale is a competitor to ARM (one that isnt doing too well I might add), developing SoC IP, whatever green car patent they came up with is not likely to change the world. What do you think the patent is about, cars running on water or cold fusion?

At normal cruising altitude, those oxygen masks last exactly as long, and when they run out, you will go unconscious/coma/dead just as well. A more likely explanation for that climb/descend IMO was a struggle in the cockpit.

Because the plane and black box would be found, and reveal his suicide (not the first time, eg silkAir Flight 185), bringing shame to him and his family.


It might be enough to lock the cabin door while the other pilot was out of the cockpit.  Or yes, he might have killed or otherwise incapacitated him first.


In this day and age, it seems very unlikely a hijacker could take over the plane without the pilots (or any passengers) sending out a distress signal. Hijackers would also have had extensive training on both the plane and the route (comms where deactived at the precise moment where they were inbetween 2 controllers, telemetry was disabled in the plane's belly, not the cockpit). Not impossible, but less plausible IMO.

Most likely to me so far seems pilot suicide. Making the plane disappear and then crashing it elsewhere in the largest/deepest ocean is a good way to keep your suicide a mystery.

As for the crew and passengers revolting, assuming they would even be aware,  just depressurize the plane, those passenger oxygen masks only last 15 minutes. After that, your plane will be silent.

The plane landing anywhere unnoticed seems very unlikely without government supported coverup, and even then someone would almost certainly talk. Maybe in North Korea they could do it, but getting there unnoticed would be pretty hard, and who would want to anyway.

Not to defend CT, but get a remote controlled PDU. Doesnt your DC offer that?

Yeah, but what about the ringing phones?

You ever call a cell phone that was turned off? Sometimes it goes straight to voicemail, sometimes it rings. You ever call somebody, their phone rings and rings and rings and RINGS and then they FINALLY answer and you’re like, WTF Dude? And they’re like, What’s your problem, Bro, it only rang one time! You hear rings because the cellular network is looking for the phone and if the phone doesn’t respond immediately the network doesn’t know if the device is active, in an area of weak signal or limited connectivity or heavy congestion, roaming out of network, or turned off. Some networks send you a ringtone while they look for the phone you’re calling so you don’t hang up. Other times you just get dead air. There’s no standard, even in heavily regulated North America, and sure as hell not across the various countries of Asia. Again, this isn’t some big conspiracy, this is how the various evolving patchwork cell phone systems work. The information is widely available and you can test it yourself. Claiming that “ringing” cell phones mean the plane is or was still intact just means that you’re ignorant of how the technology works

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/debunking-missing-mh370-flight-conspiracies-aattp


I dont know the source of that info, but I can easily imagine family members using a shared computer/tablet with stored (or shared) password, either deliberately or accidentally .


Indeed, a plane went down.