Missing MH370: Possible Boeing 777 Part Found Off Mozambique, Sources Say

[Recursion]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/missing-mh370-possible-boeing-777-part-found-mozambique-sources-say-n530066

An object that could be debris from a Boeing 777 has been found off Mozambique and is being examined by investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, sources told NBC News.

Early photographic analysis of the object suggests it could have come from the doomed jet, which vanished almost exactly two years ago.

It was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel — the body of water between Mozambique in eastern Africa and Madagascar — and in the same corner of the southern Indian Ocean where the only confirmed piece of debris, a flaperon, was found last July.

Investigators in Malaysia, Australia and the United States have seen photographs of the latest object, and sources say there is a good chance it comes from a Boeing 777.

[madokie]

1. I've suggest this before and I'll suggest it again

I think this plane could have lost pressure from whatever reason and the people on board were long dead before the plane crashed. Remember Payne Stewart who's plane lost pressure and they all died long before the plane crashed. Same thing could have happened to this plane whether it be by an onboard bomb blowing a hole in the fuselage or a malfunction of the pressure regulator.

On a different scale but on a similar device, pressure regulator. On my air compressor the pressure regulator malfunctioned just the other day. After years of working properly it finally decided to give up the ghost and malfunctioned. Anything mechanical can malfunction. I'm not saying that is what happened here but its surely a possibility.

[NutmegYankee]

2. Standard procedure then would be to decrease altitude to 3000 meters.

There are numerous warnings for depressurization in commercial aircraft. The cause of the 737 Helios flight 522 crash was the pilots ignoring the warnings as they thought it was for something else.

[madokie]

3. I have no idea as to the why

but I do believe as to how it happened.

The pilot of Stewarts plane didn't follow protocol either as the plane was on autopilot at the time of the malfunction which rendered the pilots unconscious same as the passengers.

[arthritisR_US]

4. An interesting theory but within the industry and on private pilot websites,

suicide by the first pilot is believed to be the cause. He was due to be sacked upon landing so pride won over.