Malaysia Air Flight 370

[_CY_]

what I'd like to know is exactly how much Li-ion (LiCo) material was on board?
it's certainly within possible scenarios for LiCo material on board to have been root cause for Flight 370's final demise.

shipping manifests should give official amounts on board .. no telling what was not declared (Li-ion batteries) due to hazardous ratings involved.

it's entirely plausible for a shipment of LiCo to go into thermal runaway (explosion) with little as one battery pack starting a chain reaction. resulting fire would be hot enough to melt through aluminum skin while putting out some pretty vile fumes. for detailed pictures of what can happen, look to Boeing 787 LiCo fires. if entire load of LiCo cascaded into thermal runaway .. plane would have gone down when transponder stopped not some 6+ hours later. it's also possible not all LiCo cells on board cascaded into thermal runaway.


detailed list of LiCo fires on airplanes ...
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...dent_chart.pdf

 

[dennishoddy]

Somebody knows something pretty concrete. A US Navy ship is headed that way with sophisticated underwater search capabilities to locate the black boxes that only have days left in their battery life.

 

[Hobbes]

what I'd like to know is exactly how much Li-ion (LiCo) material was on board?it's certainly within possible scenarios for LiCo material on board to have been root cause for Flight 370's final demise.

shipping manifests should give official amounts on board .. no telling what was not declared (Li-ion batteries) due to hazardous ratings involved.

it's entirely plausible for a shipment of LiCo to go into thermal runaway (explosion) with little as one battery pack starting a chain reaction. resulting fire would be hot enough to melt through aluminum skin while putting out some pretty vile fumes. for detailed pictures of what can happen, look to Boeing 787 LiCo fires. if entire load of LiCo cascaded into thermal runaway .. plane would have gone down when transponder stopped not some 6+ hours later. it's also possible not all LiCo cells on board cascaded into thermal runaway.


detailed list of LiCo fires on airplanes ...
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...dent_chart.pdf

About 100 kilograms if CNN can be believed.
Not sure where they got that or how reliable it is since lots of other things they broadcast early on turned out to be not factual or supported by authorities.

 

[0311]

Now you listen here Lieutenant. I want every swingin' dick you've got to be out there lookin' fer that plane!

Yes Sir, Mr. Anderson! We're gonna find that plane, but we'll need you to give us all your sons to do it!

If it's my sons you need to help yall find that plane, then tak'em!! I wanna say somethin'. I've known since the train that we weren't liable to find Malaysia Flight 370. It was just a hair of a chance that we got satellite data back. I knew that. Maybe I knew even before we left home, but somehow we just had to try! And if we don't try, we don't do. And if we don't do, why are we here on this earth?

 

[_CY_]

About 100 kilograms if CNN can be believed.
Not sure where they got that or how reliable it is since lots of other things they broadcast early on turned out to be not factual or supported by authorities.

can't find that anywhere .. best I could find a reference about 200 kilo of li-ion batteries, fruit and other stuff lumped together.

 

[0311]

Yall find that plane yet???

No Sir, Mr. Anderson. There is a debris field floating in a remote part of the Indian Ocean, an area known as the Roaring Forties. It is beset with cyclones, water spouts, whirlpools and enormous waves. We've got air and naval assets in the area, as well as local merchantmen on the scene.

"Why aint you out there lookin' for it? Just standin' around with a rifle never found a plane!"

"I can't swim, Mr. Anderson!"

"Wrong answer!!!"

 

[Cinaet]

Bill O'Reilly and his sycophants just got finished crowing about how he was right all along, which he was.

 

[0311]

Submarine! That's what we need! Let's get a damned submarine out there!

We'll find the missing Malaysia Flight 370, Mr. Anderson!!!

We'll take her down beneath the thermocline, where the effects of the oceanic storms will be less of a hindrance. From there we will search for the 777, moving stealthily through the darkness, like Nicodemus in the night...

 

[0311]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...ck-boxes-before-batteries-die-searchers-must/

After the excruciating 17-day wait for confirmation that the Boeing 777 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, searchers are racing to locate the so-called black boxes before a battery-powered ping they emit fades away.

 

[0311]

The mathematics-based process used by Inmarsat and the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) to reveal the definitive path was described by McLaughlin as "groundbreaking."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-satellite-tracking/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/25/world...plane-reaction/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/wo...lines-satellite-tracking/index.html?hpt=hp_t1