stage of this investigation. well, the hand flown theory, and, again, there is a theory that was very popular on the internet today by a pilot by the name of goodfellow who basically put forward the theory there was a cockpit fire and that hard left bank was an attempt to kind of take the plane back toward a runway, get it down in response to cabin depressurization. again, at the point of this investigation seems to be what we do know is that the plane seemed to ping around in some kind of intentional way in that part over the strait of malacca before it went off into where it went off which does seem to indicate there was some kind of management of the plane at that point. i think that s correct, but, again, it s very hard if you re losing, if there s an electrical fire in the bay where all of the technology is, if you re in the process of doing that, of losing, and you lose one thing at a time, from our point of view, looking back, it makes it extraordinarily
likely just a minor cockpit fire where the smoke overwhelmed the crew but not before the captain thought i m going to turn the airplane back towards land, towards the last known point. he be that intense they wouldn t have the time to put on simple oxygen masks to at least signal a distress call? it could be, but these things if they propagate slowly your initial inclination is you smell burning plastic. if you don t immediately save
great. professor, do you agree with what mary just said, or do you focus more on human intervention in this? well again, we have to keep all hypotheses open. it s hard to find a credible hypothesis where you have the sequence of events that we have here. if there was a problem on the airplane where you had let s say a cockpit fire or something like that, or depressurization, it could explain losing the transponder. it doesn t really make sense to head off in the direction the airplane headed off on. so they would have either done 180-degree turn and gone back to kuala lumpur or perhaps diverted to the closest airport. so now but we do have to consider the possibility that yeah you could have had depressurization. the crew could have tried to get the airplane back and then become incapacitated.
mask if you were the pilots, and that the plane then goes on because this 777 is such a marvelous plane. the 777 will shut down systems if it s losing power, it will shut down systems and try to keep itself flying. it will keep its control surfaces and keep its engines. that s what makes the plane so great. professor, do you agree with what mary just said, or do you focus more on human intervention in this? well again, we have to keep all hypotheses open. it s hard to find a credible hypothesis where you have the sequence of events that we have here. if there was a problem on the airplane where you had let s say a cockpit fire or something like that, or depressurization, it could explain losing the transponder. it doesn t really make sense to head off in the direction the airplane headed off on. so they would have either done
there is no sign of any wreckage. the passenger manifest included the names of two europeans not on the plane. both had their passports stolen in thailand in the past two years. the bbc reported the men using those passports purchased tickets together. because they were flying on to europe through beijing, they did not have to apply for a chinese visa and undergo checks. the lead investigative country will be determined by where the wreckage is found. but the u.s.ntsb has already dispatched a crew, boeing and royals royce who made the engines are also sending representatives. the boeing 777 is considered extremely safe. boeing has delivered 1,030 of them thus far. last year an ash anna 777 crashed in san francisco due to pilot error. egypt flight suffered a cockpit fire in 2011. prompting a redesign through the