Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people
 

Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane with 239 aboard enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The airline said in a statement early Saturday it was attempting to locate the Boeing 777 after it lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2:40 a.m. It was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m.

China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported the plane was lost in airspace controlled by Vietnam, and did not make contact with Chinese air traffic controllers.

The plane is carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members. The airline said it is working with authorities to locate the plane.

Boeing said on its Twitter account it is monitoring the situation, and "our thoughts are with everyone on board."



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What does Twitter say?

I hope that fat guy wasn't on there because when they reach their island, he's never going to lose any weight.

People here really think this hurts me? It's 2014 it's where you get the news first.

"Boeing said on its Twitter account it is monitoring the situation, and "our thoughts are with everyone on board."

China may have just reeeally stepped on their own Wangs, we'll see...

You're not very quick, are you?

I don't read anything frim Chiefs ohs unless it's in a white twitter repost box thing

wow, i hope they are safe

Not good.

At the risk of taking flack... according to what I've seen on the Twitter it's being claimed the plane never entered Chinese airspace.

RIP.....


ON a side note.......i wonder how many people die in car accidents around the world each day?......yet we always make a big deal over plane crashes.

How does the **** one lose a plane?

Frankie wasn't on the plane was he?

When it's under water.

I'll admit it, I miss Frankie.

Aliens.

Sad

The 400 pound guy gets whatever he wants.

Apparently no distress calls or anything, really odd. hoping for the best

Links or it didn't happen.

Pretty crazy story. Unfortunately I don't get the feeling this story will end happily with some air traffic controller suddenly finding them off course. Hopefully I am wrong.

At least it didn't break apart in midair

Previously on Lost...

But seriously, hope they find it.

No flack here... but it seems hard to figure just what exactly the chinese consider their airspace these days.

They're encroaching on SCS waters that are less than 200 miles outside of sovereign countries, just like Putin they're attempting to rewrite national borders by force.

Used to be fooled but Obama really DOES ****ing suck, the bullies are out in force right now/off to DC.

You'd think that there'd be radar stations along the way that could identify the precise moment that it disappeared.

What a bitch.

Tastes like chicken....

Ho-Lee-Fuk

Sum Ting Wang

Happy endings...

So I'm guessing Kuala Lumpur is in Malaysia which more or less a big island off the coast of China, sorry geography escapes me, been too long. If that's the case I wonder how much ocean would have to be traversed for survivors?

I guess some tracking blog said that the plane made a sharp turn and descended a couple of hundred meters before disappearing. I'm not sure how to read that. Did the plane disintegrate? How does it disappear if it's still at altitude?

According to reports, ATC lost contact with MH370 ~2hr 40min into the flight, which would put the plane about 100 miles south of the coast of Vietnam.

Wi To Lo

That's why I thought it went down in the ocean.

Took 23 posts.

Hope they are ok.

BREAKING: #MalaysiaAirlines flight #MH370 signal detected southwest of Vietnam's Ca Mau province

Malaysia Airlines are working to verify claims that the lost flight has landed at Nanming

That would be good news.

That would be kind of amazing.

North Korea scud missle

At least it's daylight over there right now. Hopefully they can find it. Lots of conflicting things on twitter right now. Those things I posted were coming out of China and Vietnam.

Was Ho Lee Fuk the pilot again?

Regardless of what happens here with the world all up in arms about Russia right now, people better wake up and smell the Chinese made coffee.

The little bully has now had a growth spurt, Vlad the Inhaler will seem like a long lost pal compared to these Chinese, how much you wanna bet?

The plane was piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, age 53 with 18,365 hours logged.

He was the cruelest asthmatic ever.

It will bust loose, only a matter of time. ;)

I find it strange that none of the 24 hour US news agencies are following this.

Really, you might want to step out of the box and stop being spoon fed.

Well, the uber lame KCTV 5 reported it.... so.... I dunno what to tell you. *shrug*

Chinese Navy just deployed 2 ships to the SCS to assist in SAR ops.

Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.

http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraf...023820132.html

Damn...

I would say Won Hung Stiff when he put that plane in the water.

I don't get it.

Hopefully Stryker was on board and didn't eat the fish.

Surely, you're not serious.

He is serious...and don't call him Shirley.

Well at least you beat Bad Guy to this one...

shit is cray

Reports are saying it crashed off the coast of Vietnam

In the event of a water landing, your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device.

No white people died

Me Chinese, me play joke, me blow up three generations of your family, me... ahhh **** it... hate away bitches.

They are the same person.

Apparently no confirmation of a crash or signs of wreckage. So its still missing

Fishy as hell, really wouldn't surprise me if they were shot down by "accident" now that China is so protective of that body of water.

It will be very interesting to try and read between the lines on this one in the coming days.

Missing Malaysia plane found crashing off Vietnam sea: navy official

http://www.thanhniennews.com/


It might be time to start looking at the usual suspects of the "Religion of Peace." Some militant groups are known to train in Malaysia.

I have a really bad feeling about this. I have a feeling the ending is going to be something that most of America is not going to like.

:facepalm:

Whose knows - Since early 2000, China has been fighting with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - a Muslim separatist group founded by militant Uighurs (sometimes spelled Uyghurs).

China blamed Uighur "terrorists" for carrying out suicide attacks in Beijing and recently in Kunming for the train attack that killed 27 and injured more than 140 others.

Just something to think about.

Pretty much my thought.

For there to be no mayday a few things would have to happen like radio went out (along with the ability to fly the plane), pilot put it into a nosedive (like that Egyptian Air pilot), complete electrical system malfunction, a bomb or other event that caused an immediate and catastrophic failure, a rapid decompression that knocked everyone out.

There are lots of reasons this could have happened and a few don't involve paranoid Chinese or terrorists.

Sad.

Apparently there are reports that there were lost/stolen passports used on this plane. Not a good sign.

In a weird way you almost hope this can be explained by an act of ill will.

To think that the safest type of airplane in the world, flown by an airline with a very safe flying record, flown by a captain with 3+ decades of experience and assisted by a co-pilot who was just profiled on a CNN International inside the cockpit series THREE DAYS ago can simply drop out of the sky during the safest part of the flight (cruising altitude) in perfect weather conditions is somewhat unnerving.