Contradicting the theory that suggested that the Boeing 777 aircraft could have flown on autopilot for hours and ran out of fuel before crashing, Byron Bailey said that the flight could have flown on autopilot for hours and reached its destination unless a human intervention changed the flight profile, reported The Daily Telegraph.
He explained that the aircraft has 80 computers and except for two engines, nearly every system is triplicated and the failure of even one of these systems would automatically result in a transfer to another. This means that for the Air Traffic Control (ATC) to lose control secondary radar contact with MH370, someone would have to deactivate all the three systems manually.
An analysis of Malaysian military radar had found that the flight tracked across northern Malaysia before drifting to the northwest and turning south into the southern Indian Ocean. However, the former captain said that the Boeing 777 aircraft is fairly big and it is almost impossible for it to go unnoticed on the Indonesian, Thai and then Indian military radar.
He ruled out total electricity failure too, as suggested by some theories, by saying that the flight has five generators and an automatic deployment Ram Air Turbine (RAT) as a final backup which can supply hydraulic and electrical power to vital systems and still have contact with the ATC.
Bailey said that the Boeing 777 is a large aircraft and added that he believed that the MH370 is still intact and submerged under 6000m of water. He said that it will be found only if "we search long enough."
Flight MH370 has been missing since the early hours of March 8, when it left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.
Keturunan Dayak di Sarawak marah selepas diskriminasi kenaikan pangkat
ReplyDeleteOLEH DESMOND DAVIDSON
Published: 30 November 2014
Senarai menunjukkan Bumiputera Sarawak diletakkan sebagai simpanan sementara pekerja Bumiputera Melayu mendapat kenaikan pangkat. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider, 30 November, 2014.
Senarai menunjukkan Bumiputera Sarawak diletakkan sebagai simpanan sementara pekerja Bumiputera Melayu mendapat kenaikan pangkat. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider, 30 November, 2014.
Satu senarai mereka yang dinaikkan pangkat, dipercayai di Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan (JPJ) Sarawak, menimbulkan kemarahan golongan profesional dan penjawat awam berketurunan Dayak, gara-gara menjadi bukti diskriminasi terhadap Bumiputera bukan Melayu di dalam perkhidmatan awam persekutuan.
Senarai yang dimuat turun sebuah blog dan di laman Facebook menunjukkan lapan pegawai berbangsa Melayu “berjaya” naik pangkat daripada skala N27 kepada N32, manakala tiga pegawai berketurunan Dayak disenaraikan sebagai "simpanan".
Bagi kaum Dayak, iaitu penduduk asal Sarawak, senarai itu hanya mengesahkan apa yang dirasakan selama ini, dan yang terkandung di dalam Laporan Pembangunan Manusia 2013, iaitu wujudnya diskriminasi di kalangan Bumiputera dalam perkhidmatan awam, dengan keutamaan diberikan kepada orang Melayu berbanding penduduk asal Sarawak itu.