Hey Jeff, thanks for providing this MH370 Platform for information and discussion! My name is Bob Childress, I have been in the Military, Commercial and Business Jet Avionics System/Software Engineer and Engineering Lab Technician for many years. I have just started listening to your podcasts and I may be able to share some information/details regarding some unanswered questions.
As of now (2/25/2025), I think the pilot did it. The B777 pilots you spoke with had no nefarious motivation. If you imagine we a have a nefarious pilot, his actions fit the scenario very nicely, although I do like your northern arc scenario where the plane ends up in Russia. I'm also skeptical about the Inmarsat data, although without that, we really have no clue. I think the pilot's motive is exactly where we are now, 10 years later and the pilot produced the greatest aviation mystery in history. Looks like the pilot made a very soft landing and ditched the B777 in one of the canyons in the very rugged ocean area. Plus, the Flight Simulator had many specific controls, the pilot was not just running MS Flight Simulator on a desktop or laptop.
I have worked with many military and commercial/business Jets Simulators, Iron Birds and Flight Test Aircraft for Airbus, Boeing, Dassault, Gulfstream and many others. In our labs, the engineers and technician know all about the various systems and subsystems and which circuit breakers control which systems and which system are on the same circuit breakers. In hardware/software engineering, many times the system becomes locked-up due to bad or not property working software, hardware, whatever, so to the engineers and technicians, pulling various circuit breakers is common practice to reboot the locked-up system.
The details that the pilot would need to learn about these systems are in the various pilot manuals. As your B777 pilots stated, they are not trained on these systems regarding turning them off or disabling communication systems. The Pilots have access to the manuals, system engineers, aircraft mechanics/technicians to find out how to disable/enable these systems, if they wanted to and had nefarious intent.
Thanks for this, Bob. I think it's important to recognize that, even if Zaharie did have access to the technical information that would allow him to reboot the left AC/bus, there would be no benefit to be derived from that, even in the context of trying to commit mass murder suicide.
Excellent presentation from the “flight deck.” To me it seems like there are 2 great mysteries.
The first is what you’ve explored, understanding what happened to the plane. This podcast started down the road of the second mystery, why all the other players sat idly by.
If this pilot was able to use a flight simulator to re-enact what would happen if someone on the flight deck started flipping switches, why wasn’t something this easy done as part of the investigation?
It’s not so much the mystery of mh370 as it is the mystery of the illusion of the investigation. It’s like if there was a bank robbery and all you did was review the video surveillance footage from the front door instead of looking at that big underground hole in the vault.
I still don’t understand why Boeing wasn’t all over this. Maybe that is explained by their recent shakeup. People always looked at this as a physics problem when in reality it’s much bigger.
Thanks Trip! I do hope that this podcast can whip up interest in the case, so that some of these really intriguing issues will be looked at in earnest.
Hey Jeff, thanks for providing this MH370 Platform for information and discussion! My name is Bob Childress, I have been in the Military, Commercial and Business Jet Avionics System/Software Engineer and Engineering Lab Technician for many years. I have just started listening to your podcasts and I may be able to share some information/details regarding some unanswered questions.
As of now (2/25/2025), I think the pilot did it. The B777 pilots you spoke with had no nefarious motivation. If you imagine we a have a nefarious pilot, his actions fit the scenario very nicely, although I do like your northern arc scenario where the plane ends up in Russia. I'm also skeptical about the Inmarsat data, although without that, we really have no clue. I think the pilot's motive is exactly where we are now, 10 years later and the pilot produced the greatest aviation mystery in history. Looks like the pilot made a very soft landing and ditched the B777 in one of the canyons in the very rugged ocean area. Plus, the Flight Simulator had many specific controls, the pilot was not just running MS Flight Simulator on a desktop or laptop.
I have worked with many military and commercial/business Jets Simulators, Iron Birds and Flight Test Aircraft for Airbus, Boeing, Dassault, Gulfstream and many others. In our labs, the engineers and technician know all about the various systems and subsystems and which circuit breakers control which systems and which system are on the same circuit breakers. In hardware/software engineering, many times the system becomes locked-up due to bad or not property working software, hardware, whatever, so to the engineers and technicians, pulling various circuit breakers is common practice to reboot the locked-up system.
The details that the pilot would need to learn about these systems are in the various pilot manuals. As your B777 pilots stated, they are not trained on these systems regarding turning them off or disabling communication systems. The Pilots have access to the manuals, system engineers, aircraft mechanics/technicians to find out how to disable/enable these systems, if they wanted to and had nefarious intent.
Thanks for this, Bob. I think it's important to recognize that, even if Zaharie did have access to the technical information that would allow him to reboot the left AC/bus, there would be no benefit to be derived from that, even in the context of trying to commit mass murder suicide.
why aren't they uploading video verson on youtube, I was searching through their youtube page and no new videos from the new season 2
Excellent presentation from the “flight deck.” To me it seems like there are 2 great mysteries.
The first is what you’ve explored, understanding what happened to the plane. This podcast started down the road of the second mystery, why all the other players sat idly by.
If this pilot was able to use a flight simulator to re-enact what would happen if someone on the flight deck started flipping switches, why wasn’t something this easy done as part of the investigation?
It’s not so much the mystery of mh370 as it is the mystery of the illusion of the investigation. It’s like if there was a bank robbery and all you did was review the video surveillance footage from the front door instead of looking at that big underground hole in the vault.
I still don’t understand why Boeing wasn’t all over this. Maybe that is explained by their recent shakeup. People always looked at this as a physics problem when in reality it’s much bigger.
Can’t wait for the next episodes.
Thanks Trip! I do hope that this podcast can whip up interest in the case, so that some of these really intriguing issues will be looked at in earnest.