27,000 Square miles

The Search area is now 27,000 square miles to the east of Malaysia, to the West of Malaysia and in jungles of Malaysia. However, this is more confusing than any other plane disappearance that I have ever become aware of in my 65 years unless it was the Amelia Earhart disappearance in the 1930s.

My wife and I were talking about how they mentioned that the 777 had had some trouble with cracking front window in the cockpit. If you can imagine a front window with 600 mph winds coming in at once if one broke at that speed basically the first thing would be everyone (starting with the pilot would not have eardrums and not have consciousness because of this. The second likely thing that would happen is that this pressure coming in the broken window might make the plane explode from incoming air pressure at that speed. Since everyone already in the plane would be unconscious or dead. However, I'm not sure if the cockpit door was close whether it would burst immediately from the pressure coming in the window at that speed or not. Anyway, at the very least the pilot and crew in the cockpit would be unconscious at that speed. The airplane when it changed direction could have changed direction because of the wind pressure changing the flying characteristics of the plane from the broken cockpit window and somehow remained on autopilot. But, if the cockpit door did not blow out from the wind pressure and the stewards and stewardesses tried to break through because something was wrong if they succeeded then everyone else in the plane would go unconscious too. Because not only is the wind coming in at 600 mph but it is below zero in temperature almost always at that altitude (Fahrenheit)30,000 feet or more. For example, I have climbed Mt. Shasta when it was over 100 degrees in town but on the summit (in 1970 it was below freezing even then that Day and if I didn't have a heavy jacket and gloves and a wool hat on I might not have been okay climbing that day to the summit. Mt. Shasta is only 14,182 feet or so tall not over 30,000 feet like they were flying at when something happened.

Though Automatic pilot still might fly the plane (even if everyone was unconscious on the plane at the time) it might have had to fly in another direction because it didn't have another adjustment from the pilots because they would have been unconscious.

So, I suppose this could have happened without killing anyone on board but they would be having trouble breathing (either too much air pressure from the broken window) or too little air pressure because of explosive decompression if the window blew out.

Another scenario would be concerning the repaired wing. One thing I do know about from living in the tropical area of Hawaii on the Big Island and also on Maui in the 1970s and 1980s is that in the tropics things tend to rust out a lot even aluminum. So, if the damaged wing was repaired but a hairline fracture was where the wing met the fuselage it might not have been detected because of the placement of the wing fuel tanks. So, imagine a wing coming off at 30,000 feet and a plane suddenly going sideways at 600 mph and what other pieces of the plane might come off at that speedy slowdown of a catastrophic nature.

So, flying in a tropical environment and therefore more corrosive or rust prevalent area is also a factor in how long planes last in the tropics (if they spend a lot of time on the ground or under 10,000 feet in altitude). This is one reason they sometimes store planes in the desert where there is no rainfall (or under 5 inches per year) in order to store planes so they eventually will be available for use without worrying about rusting and degradation of engines, wings and surfaces over time.  So, what I'm saying is time in the tropics for a plane or car is different than in any other area on earth in it's short and long term affects on all planes and cars.