Beste tweakers,
Ik heb deze theorie over MH370 op een ander forum (vandaar in het Engels) ook geplaatst en ik wil het graag met jullie delen. Graag hoor ik jullie kritiek.
NEW THEORY THAT CORRESPONDS WITH FACTS:
FACTS SO FAR:
1. At around 1:20 AM local time, MH370 disappears from radar, while making a course change in order to follow M765 airway (
http://skyvector.com). This was part of the planned flight route.
Flightradar 24
The heading of the plane was about 40 degrees.
Image: Flight path of MH370
2. CNN reports that MH370 climbed from 35.000 feet to 45.000 feet, well above it maximum altitude (43.100 feet, according to Boeing). After this, the plane descended to 23.000 feet.
Quote: "Malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens and then dropping to 23,000 feet before climbing again, the official said" (
CNN)
3. A New Zealand oil rig worker at Songa Mercur oil rig spots an burning airplane in the sky and reports this, then after a while the plane stopped burning. Moreover, the worker
didn't report that the plane fas was actually falling from the sky.
The Wire - Oil rig worker story. I verified the coordinates of the oil rig, and it is definitely possible that this worker saw the plane. With a formula, you can calculate the maximum distance to horizon:
Formula. Using a altitude of 35.000 feet (h= 10 668 meters), the maximum distance to horizon is 369 km. Using the longitude and latitude of the last known location of MH370 and the oil rig, I estimated the distance to be 551 km, which is
too far for the plane to be seen from the oil rig. However, the plane was heading
towards the oil rig. After MH370 disappeared, the plane climbed to 45.000, which takes some time and MH370 should have moved closer to the oil rig, such it became visible to the oil rig.
Image of location of oil rig and MH370
THEORY:
After MH370 disappeared from radar, it kept on flying heading 40 degrees. Something (I have no clue) must have caused the plane to climb until 45.000 feet. At that point, the engines don't get enough oxygen and
flame out, which seems like the plane is
burning. A flame out occurs when the fuel/air mixture is wrong (
Wikipedia Flame out)After that, the plane descended until 23.000 feet, an altitude at which the engines get enough oxygen and the flames go out. This explains why the oil rig worker saw a "burning plane" and then disappear What happened after this is still a puzzle, possibly MH370 turned to the Indian Ocean...