Experts say missing cheap flight 370 was on Autopilot

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Malaysian Airlines cheap flight 370 indicate the plane was flying on autopilot when it disappeared.

USA TODAY reports the search for the missing jet will now move to the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia and will span an area of 23,200-square miles. The cheap flight from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 carried 239 passengers and crew, including 153 Chinese citizens. So why has no debris surfaced even months later?

NEWS Aviation Expert Greg Feith does not often speculate on plane crashes but posted his thoughts on the new developments to his Facebook page Thursday morning. "Current information released by the Malaysians appears to be in concert with the search area I had discussed 3 months ago - I believe it is 1250 to 1500 miles further west and south of the area that they searched near Australia.

Many people have asked me my thoughts about whether the cheap flight crashed or was ditched in the ocean. I don't typically speculate on accidents and usually discuss an accident scenario based on the factual info I have. However MH370 is uniquely different.  I discussed a scenario several month ago that I believed the flight management system/autopilot was used to fly the airplane to a way point over the Indian Ocean; and the autopilot would then perform a minimum airspeed and minimum descent rate profile until the cheap flight impacted the water. This controlled descent at a slow airspeed would minimize the breakup of the fuselage and other structure, which in turn would minimize the amount of floating debris. Also the fuselage would sink as a complete unit and again the floating debris would be minimized.

Think of it as a landing like the Miracle on the Hudson whereby there was no aircraft breakup. The difference is because the pilot would not be able to gauge the height above the ocean (since it was likely dark), the autopilot was used to perform a slow, controlled descent to water contact. The pilot of cheap flight would not have to be conscious or even alive for the airplane to fly the profile once it was programmed into to FMC and executed.

This controlled ditch or collision with the water may also explain why there has been no trace of Amelia Earhart's airplane - minimal impact damage thus no floating debris to wash up on a beach!

Investigator intuition is not a substitution for having the actual data but in this case the investigators need to think like a person who wants to make a cheap flight (Boeing 777) disappear, they need to look at the available info and use some logic to identify the best search area rather than calculated with data, the search area."