Is it a Conspiracy @ 45000 ft?

It’s almost 2 weeks since the Boeing 777 has been lost flying with Malaysian airline MH370. Now there are amazing developments in this scenario but only and only on papers and media. The investigation hasn’t reached any altitude in regards to finding, what say is a “missing plane”.

Now it does raise some questions, more so it raises question on the probable theories coming out of this uneventful situation. When on the one hand thousands of people associated with missing families are praying and hope to hear baffled news that their family members are still alive. ?? What all media and respective aviation heads are doing is selling the propositions as what might have happened?

In a very recent development the Malaysian govt. is checking any criminal background of any crew (including flight deck), and passengers to seek if some or any dots can be connected. Nevertheless I have no clue where this will take the investigation because even if they determine any connection, it will raise double the suspicion about the scenario rather then any problem to be solved.

I don’t think so that any measure taken is bad, but I hope everyone would agree that the cabin crew of any airline is thoroughly investigated before they are even hired. Background checks, police verification, no criminal records, NOC’s and so on and so forth documents are collected in hand before allowing anyone to be a part of a crew member. Now being an Ex-crew member I felt for those missing crew members that this step is a little insulting to their caliber.

 I guess then all the other crew members flying should be inquired again as well. As if any crew member is involved then I am sure they will try their level best not to be on that plane. People who ask how it can be done? Answer is a simple report sick for duty will solve the problem for them.

There will be a handful of people who would like to argue that why I felt insulting only for crew not passengers?

 Answer is that crew members usually have no affinity to travel to a certain aircraft and destination, but passengers do want to reach a certain point so they might have a motive. So checking various passengers makes sense.

Now I would like to throw some light on this conspiracy theories and their possibilities or being true or not. It’s my own imagination and studies that I have come to this point and conclusions, I beg your pardon if I am not able to assess the situation to perfection.

Now there is number of theories that I have heard and I just want to comment why I think these are not probable?

HIJACK

Almost 2 weeks passed and there is no clue for the missing aircraft. Loads of people would say that it’s been hijacked, as when we haven’t found any debris of the aircraft. Now my argument here is that if it is hijacked then what is this hijacker doing? Taking personal interviews of 200+ passengers? We all know that a hijacker’s motive is to fulfill some demands, where are those demands? Okay, let’s say that he is waiting for situation to aggravate but then did he manage to land a 777 somewhere in a jungle that no one, ya, no one could see it. Okay, let’s say some one is helping these people so it cannot be figured out, but where are the errands coming from? So he doesn't wanna ask for food and water? To my knowledge 777 can’t contain food for 2 weeks survival for 200+ PASSENGERS.

From my timid understanding this rules out the possibility of a hijack.

CRASH/ DITCHING

Now the next big probability is that aircraft might have crashed somewhere and they cannot find it, for reference sake let’s take example of Air France 2009 crash of which they found the plane debris almost after 3 years. But I have only one question, I was taught that during any crash if none of the signaling devices works but one means is installed just to work with the impact. RLB (Radio Locator Beacon), it comes one on impact automatically. No one needs to switch it on, and if I am right RLB is installed above the false ceiling of the aircraft and a Boeing 777 at least has 2 of these and rest 6 ones - on each slide which will come on automatically if come in contact with water.

So what they wanna say? That none of them are working? So everything what I was taught when I was a crew was not full proof. Like is there any explanation for this. Black box is not emitting any signals too, no civil, no military and none to satellite. Simply telling the world that a  777 aircraft eloped in the sky. And none of the signaling device is working. It is compelling me to state that cabin crew have another equipment called as ELT (emergency locater transmitter), which usually now works on switching on a toggle switch. Shall we assume that none of the crew got any where closer to single ELT present on board?

ALIEN ABDUCTION

A bunch of people or I may say maniacs, who wanna make the whole situation a joke came up with this one -  that might be it is been abducted by an alien. Common guys give it a break, not everything which is un explainable is supernatural. Simple words stop bullsh**ing people.

Theories yet to be discussed

I have some apprehensions about some technical information provided to us. It is said that the radar was switched off from the plane. I am no expert on this information, but shouldn't these radars be constantly working, why is there an option to switch it off?

If it is a ditching scenario then understandably heavy metal may drown but what about the flotation devices like seat cushions which are made of a floating material?

Me and one of my dear friends was disusing this next probe and it came out to be a very interesting question. Many people claimed that the cell phones of fellow passengers are ringing, in today’s world way more then 90% people use smart phones, the battery life of which Is maximum 2 days. How these phones are ringing? Failing all possibilities of ditching (water landing)…

There is another thing about fake passports, how come the immigration didn't scrutinize the passports while these 2 people were going for travelling. How come they found these passports afterwards, determined that they were fake and so far made no connection with the story.

Last but not the least with a heavy heart i won't be flabbergasted if after the radar was switched off, some countries military would have taken the aircraft down with a missile, thinking that it is an unidentified aircraft infiltrating in there airspace. And after doing it now trying to cover it up. Isn't it possible with our worlds political structure, i guess yes is the answer.

All in all the world of speculation is at its top most point, where everyone is been looked with eyes of suspicion but do we realize what must have been going through the families of these crew and passengers?

Not a single article came across me from the families of the crew. No official statement, no concrete answers. The blame game has just started, with human lives at stake. Is this what we signed for, for politics to warm up on people lives?

Some consider this a threat to them; some don’t succeed in finding any traces of the plane and cannot even connect the story. And it breaks my heart when the crew is suspected who were just there accidentally, trapped in all this.

My heart goes out to all the people involved in this Missing plane, once again I would say May god be with us and honesty prevails.

Value of Life @ 30000 ft & Above

Just about time when I haven't even finished showing the real face of humans in the role of a cabin crew, as how much they crib and complain about life and time that they spend on board. World got  news flashing about catastrophy happened with Malaysian airline aircraft, which is still missing and nothing concrete came up as they found the wreckage or not. Was it a crash or a hijack? Malfunction of an equipment or some nervous breakdown of the pilot itself. The room for the conspiracy theories is widely open. And believe me one will spare no chance for a dime to speculate as what would have happened up in the air that day.

I am not here to discuss as what could have happened, I am not here to blame the airline as to how come they didn’t come to know that the aircraft was missing? When every airline monitors every single aircraft in the air on a simple radar.

Even stupid enough smart phones have this application to track the aircraft, even if it is parked somewhere in this world. I am not here to blame the govt. of any country as for how come there is no concrete statement even after 3 days to the accident?

Ever since the air travel started the industry have seen some of the tremendous accidents in the history. We learn from our mistakes and then we improve, as we were getting a bit complacent with the fact that air travel is safe. Yeah, it slapped us right through the face waking us up from an easy dream to the harsh reality. So, if I am not here to talk about the lapses leading to the mishap, then what m I trying to say ?

Let me show u something first….

This was the crew list of the 12 crew member including the pilot and the co-pilot of the aircraft that left so many families into tears and sorrow. The one thing that caught my eye was the briefing room no. 6, I was a crew myself and all I cared about was which briefing room am I going to . Often happened that I used to forget the destination where I was going, but the most important was to find the bunch of people in a briefing room headed for the same place as mine.

Heading to the briefing room safely answering the safety and first aid questions, discussing the service and cribbing through as why did I get galley again? Gosh ! it’s a full load!!, Making plans as what we will do in Peking, some would have made plans to shop, some for clubbing and some must have had plans to get one of those China’s best massage.

There is nothing wrong in doing that right? The job has its own perks, and that’s life. But do we realize while making our plans to call one more time to the people we love, was it enough, or do we want one more only one more phone call.

Or working in an human touch industry has made us stone cold that we often forget about the most important people around us. . Or taking an oath of saving life of everyone around us in an aircraft, makes people around our life meaningless?

In the age of technology connecting to people is so easy that in our day to day life we don’t realize that we are hushing people off. With a very comfortable reasonability that I will do it later. But when the time arrives just one call looks as if the world, one look of the people whom you love, one touch, one kiss, one more goodbye, all these material things from LV bags to Rolex watches (water proof up to 300m), all of a sudden looks meaningless. All some wanna do is to call your mother and hear her, call  your wife, a message to type. An overwhelming feeling of why I wasted these years cribbing of what I had, I always had enough. But today I may beg for that one call.

Humans complain and that makes them humans, anyone who doesn't actually call themselves as Saints the one who achieved salvation somewhere. But as a cabin crew, don’t you agree that the sanctity of life is in being with a flaw, life is not perfect, we can’t make it, life doesn't wait for later.

All we do as a crew is to either complain or be complacent, gossip is a religion, the place where you work is the worst and the country you live in is never the best. Best is what someone else has? 

We don’t have time for wasteful subjects like LOVE, empathy is only shown when we are paid for it. Smiles are thrown randomly to a lucky winner for it, Glass of water depends on how sharp is our memory, considerate friends are either ones who get us something from the destination they are going or the ones who can listen to our bullshit book full of unsatisfactory remarks and still be quite. Love is only shown most often in layover hotel room,  parties are only with strange people the ones who you met less then 12 hours before.

Native countries become blurred which lack opportunities, mothers bug us off as they keep on nag us for the information like have we eaten on time or not. All of a sudden father is showing us ego as, why he never calls so why should I? Paris becomes the best place to eat and China to shop, Sanctity of life appears only in USA, and the best beach in the world is in Maldives. We get the capability to chose, and we start to live in an illusion.

The value of that, one call …. One more time….. just once…. To say I love you …….the importance of things and people around you in life is realized when it's slipping out of your hands.

Let’s pledge to us today that we will make that one call everyday and we will not leave even one opportunity to tell someone that how much we love them. Stop the cribbing business and spread that smile. Touch the untouched and help the one who needs it. Let’s pledge that we will be better race of people and we will redefine the SANCTITY OF LIFE.

P.S. This is my hearty condolences to the families of the deceased in the Malaysian airline crash. But I am still in hope that there are people out there who survived. May god be with us.

A tragic day in Aviation (Malaysian Aircraft missing)

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/uk-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUKBREA2701C20140308