crew they ll have to land on a different runway. because of a change in wind direction, the active runway is now runway 5. when there are last-minute changes such as runway changes or route changes, pilots don t like that, because they ve already programmed the computer to fly a particular route to get to the airport. complicating things even more, air traffic control recommends a nonprecision approach, a type of manual landing the pilot has had very little experience flying in this brand-new computer sized jet. nonprecision approaches do not have the electronic vertical guidance, and in this case that was part of the issue, the descents require a lot of preplanning using a procedure that they don t use a lot. air traffic control doesn t know it, but the pilot wants to stick with his initial flight plan and make a precision approach to the original runway.
communicate back to the ground when the fuel the aircraft ran out of fuel and it crashed. miles, why does that not convince you? well, in the case of helios first of all, there were radio calls indicating there was difficulty before they lost consciousness. secondly why the route changes? if in fact this was the ghost plane scenario in theory it would have flied the pre-programmed route to beijing. why would it have made that securitious route to the south? i m sure you can come up with a scenario where they were trying to come back to a field. richard, you read the map here richard. why the changes? well both gentleman know the arguments and the way they re put forward. and the argument is it s actually flying back west where there is a maintenance base. something has happened here the pilot has turned the aircraft around. it s now flying west across malaysia. something could have noticed, but they didn t the biggest
this as we learn about the plane s new track. it seemed to disappear into thin air with 239 people on board. the people conducting the investigation is now claiming 370 went 170 miles off course before it went off radar. conflicting information continues to come from the malaysians while route changes come under more scrutiny. is there any chance, mike, that these were confused pilots? i don t know what may have happened to shut off the transponder, but they may have thought when they made the u-turn that they were going the direction they meant to be going? with those pilots and expertise and experience, no, there was something that caused that airplane to turn and go south. day 5. a wednesday. we learn the final words from the cockpit were seemingly calm, all right. good night. no mayday call was ever issued. concern grows that this was deliberate.
jet that seemingly disappeared into thin air with two 239 peop onboard. a malaysia official is confirming the flight one hundreds of miles off course before it wept off radar. conflicting information continues to come from the malaysians as the route changes come under more scrutiny. is there any chance that these were confused pilots and that they thought when they made the u-turn they were going the direction they meant to be going? that would be lottery odd, i would suspect. with those pilots and what their expertise or their experience no, there was something that caused that airplane to turn and go south. day five, a wednesday. we learn the final words from the cockpit were a seemingly calm, all right, goodnight. no mayday call was ever issued. certain grows that this was deliberate. i think as cia director
that missing malaysia airline jet that seemingly disappeared into thin air with two 239 peop onboard. a malaysia official is confirming the flight one hundreds of miles off course before it wept off radar. conflicting information continues to come from the malaysians as the route changes come under more scrutiny. is there any chance that these were confused pilots and that they thought when they made the u-turn they were going the direction they meant to be going? that would be lottery odd, i would suspect. with those pilots and what their expertise or their experience no, there was something that caused that airplane to turn and go south. day five, a wednesday. we learn the final words from the cockpit were a seemingly calm, all right, goodnight. no mayday call was ever issued. certain grows that this was deliberate. i think as cia director