All these parts are centrally tracked. Alarms would go off at Boeing.

Maybe they caught fire.

Yeah thats Palau Langkawi but while the runway is long, everything else is wrong with that destination. The runway is only really usable from the west, and terrain to the east would make an abort for a heavy aircraft problematic. There is only a small hospital on the island, a couple of police stations and a few ambulances. Its not really set up for night operations either. A return to KLIA would have been the standard way to go, its a bit longer but the aircraft was loaded with fuel and may have needed to dump or burn off fuel to land anyway.

Yeah there was an interview with a former chief pilot of Malaysia Airlines, and he seemed pretty convinced the captain stole the plane. In particular, the way the aircraft overflew Penang, which was the captain's home city. A day before the flight his wife and kids had gone back to their house in Penang.

I would still put

0 - Respirate at the top in a pressurised aircraft.

And since the crew did turn west, we need to explain why. Did they have a navigation failure? Thats strange with the Malay peninsula lit up around them.

Did it also cut off ADS-B and ADS-C?

Palau Langkawi might have been closer by a few minutes but its not set up for night operations, doesn't have substantial medical or emergency facilities, and has a big hill at the eastern end of the runway. The logical action would be to return to KLIA. To do that they would have to overfly the Cameron Highlands again, but its only 6000 feet high.

As I understand it, doppler shift data from the satellite link points to a southerly trajectory, but the transciever in the satellite ground station compensates for doppler, leaving only noise. So much that we assume about the aircraft assumes the doppler data is correct, but it depends on a few Hz of shift.

If I can't ride my bike I will walk or take public transport.

100% not worth seeing, unfortunately. I hope the producers don't ruin the reputation of a great book in this case.

It would be very dumb to reveal your capability in that way.

Hard to believe that China would go out of their way to piss the USA off by blowing up their satellite. Doesn't seem consistent with their style.

Yeah ours was the Orange but I assumed it was from Taiwan or similar. The case was a simple steel rectangle. Nothing fancy and I thought at the time they had ripped off the firmware.

My school had a few asian knockoffs of the apple as well.

The Vogons disagreed.

Next time use port 22. Its dead simple.