So, why don't black boxes send plane details via cloud (lulz), in real time, so that way they dont have to chase down the mother****ers?

I don't understand it at all. A centralized hub should be able to have ALL details of the plane's computer systems.

That is a concern, but I wonder if it's much different than average. I don't know how easy it is to get passports if you're Chinese. You would hope that a gate person would wonder if a Chinese person has an Italian name. But hey, we live in an international world.

I have been traveling all day and haven't kept up with the news. Have any terrorist organizations claimed credit for a bombing? perhaps the Uyghurs are quiet, but it seems like anybody else would have stepped up. it makes me wonder if it was some sort of natural accident.

Cosmo said Bush or Palin did it in cahoots with Mitt. Other than that what I see is they are still looking for the pieces and parts.

It seems to me that this plane broke apart in mid-air.

Scary!

An interesting fact in this article regarding the two stolen passports:http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

The two passengers who used the passports in question appear to have bought their tickets together.


Now, that could just mean that they're people traveling illegally and that they both bought stolen passports together, but it's nonetheless interesting even if it has nothing to do with terrorism.

I don't think it's terribly uncommon in SE Asia for stolen passports to be used by migrant workers.

This is true, though all the professed "experts" I heard seemed to indicate the four on the same plane was a bit odd.

And I second the earlier poster who can't understand why they don't have self-contained black boxes that transmit in real-time. Heck, how expensive would it be to install cameras on the wings, stabilizer, cockpit, and fuselage? Even if it isn't accessible to the public in real-time for privacy reasons, there could certainly be some repository you could database it to I would think.

If so we'd have a pretty good idea what happened, where it happened, and if there were survivors in the first few minutes at a cost of what? $1,000? Even if it was 10x that amount per year it could prevent another coordinated attack and/or help make planes safer for about $1 a ticket. I'd pay it.

Then where the hell is everything?

There are 40 planes and 24 ships looking and nothing. :eek:

Seen that before. Unbelievable.

Could be terrorist or illegals.

They should have just tunneled like the Mexicans do.

The oil slick was found not to be from an aircraft.

Oil from a WOK perhaps?

Where is all the debris. It won't all sink.