Unfortunately, this incident did not occur in April, I would have accepted it to be April fool. I’m still perplexed over the missing Malaysian Airlines after six days. This means, our technology, science, researches, knowledge and predictions can of course humble us some day in future.Why do some of us find it difficult to believe the existence of the supremacy called God?
Read the piece I got from dailymail.co.uk today for the update of the missing Malaysia airlines
American aviation chiefs warned
six months ago that a kind of Boeing jet similar to the Malaysian Airlines plane that has gone missing was vulnerable to a mid-air break up.
As searchers headed for a possible crash site for Flight MH370, it emerged that the US Federation Aviation Authority ordered airlines to fix a potentially fatal flaw in Boeing 777 jets.
The FAA reportedly warned the planes could break apart and suffer a drastic loss in cabin pressure because of cracks in the fuselage.
Authorities have today insisted the plane had been 'fully serviced' and all the maintenance checks 'were in order'.
In an ‘airworthiness directive’ (AD) dated September 18 last year, airlines were given until April 9 this year to ‘detect and correct cracking and corrosion in the fuselage skin’ beneath the airliners' communications antennae.
Failure to fix the flaw could put the aircraft at risk of ‘a rapid decompression and loss of structural integrity of the airplane,’ said the FAA.
One airline reportedly found a 16 inch crack 'under the 3-bay SATCOM antenna adapter plate in the crown skin of the fuselage' on a 14-year-old airplane with approximately 14,000 total flight cycles.
After this finding, the same operator inspected 42 other jets between six and 16 years old and found 'some local corrosion but no other cracking'.
The AD applied to other B777 models and not the B777-200ER, which is the model of the missing jet. Boeing is said to have claimed the two models have different antennas.
The directive said the warning applied to the B777-200, -200LR, -300, -300ER and -777F series airplanes.
But according to a second report the FAA said it had also determined that this unsafe condition 'is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design'.
Experts were speculating last night that a failure to correct the flaw could possibly be behind the plan’s disappearance with 239 people on board.
Analysts suggested that if the plane had lost pressure the pilots may have become disorientated and possible fly off course, leading to the confusion over its whereabouts.
The FAA was not available for comment in Washington last night.
But Mary Schiavo, a former Inspector General at the US Department of Transportation, was reported last night as saying: ‘Boeing put out a warning back in August, and it said the 777 had a problem with fuselage cracking.
‘I wonder what didn’t get done. If this plane had a problem and it had cracking or some sort of rapid decompression and lost the ability to communicate, it would make perfect sense.’
The claim came as it was also reported that an IT manager from Chicago thinks he may have tracked down the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
He reportedly used a satellite imaging website that allows people to comb vast distances. The Tomnod website allows people to work their way through satellite images square by square.
One user, Mike Seberger, claimed it took him only a few minutes on Sunday to come up with a possible match.
'At first I skipped past it, thinking: "Nah. No way I would find anything that quickly",' Mr Seberger told CNN. 'But then I kept scrolling back to it and thinking to myself, "It does resemble a plane".'
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