The airwaves have been thick with news and, more often, speculation about the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 for a week and a half now. Hard evidence has been sketchy and ambiguous, and in the ensuing fact-vacuum theories about the quandary have ranged from terrorism to pilot suicide to alien abduction.
Leave it to an experienced pilot to come up with the most plausible explanation I've seen, based on the facts as we know them. Pilot Chris Goodfellow yesterday wrote an article in Wired magazine that examines the disappearance from the perspective of a flyer with 20 years' experience and comes up with a scenario that accounts for each facet of the case of the Boeing 777 that left Kuala Lumpur but never made it to Beijing. It also tells us where to look for the wreckage, if we want to save time and expense doing so.
In all likelihood, nothing will ever be settled conclusively until the aircraft is found, if it ever is. If Chris Goodfellow is right, that is probably going to be 20,000 feet below the waves of the South Indian Ocean. But until then, I'm going with Goodfellow's case as a good tentative explanation.
To take a look at things through the eye of a professional pilot rather than a breathless news anchor, go to this link.
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I read that article a couple of days ago. It makes logical sense.
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