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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." http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03...ing-23-people/ Malaysian jet probe sharpens focus on passengers, crew as new clues emerge http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03...-indian-ocean/ Last edited by ShowtimeSBMVP; 03-15-2014 at 09:02 AM.. |
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Could it be a coincidence? Sure, it could.
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Since thats obvious and they haven't done it, I'm assuming the satellite only received one ping.
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I'd like to believe in the "stole the plane and landed it somewhere" scenario because it's sexier, but that wouldn't be something you'd concoct on the spur of the moment and they sure don't seem to be turning up much in the way of ties to pirates, terrorists or any other type of extremist in either of the pilots' backgrounds. Unless they're keeping it quiet so they can try to catch up with the bad guys, of course. I'm reluctantly and gradually coming around to your completely unsexy suicide theory.
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Now, perhaps he also flies some routes between Malaysia and Europe, and if that's the case then it's a non-story. But I'm not sure that the Maldives and Diego Garcia really fall along a Great Circle route to Europe. It's almost like he was practicing finding small isolated islands more than practicing landings. The short runway thing is of interest too, but that's explainable if he's just testing his skills. The Maldives are particularly interesting because if you're trying to avoid Indian radar and you're headed to Pakistan or Somalia, you're going over the Maldives, more or less.
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Oh, I didn't know that. That seems kind of important. I could see the Silent Suicide option as more likely now.
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Looks like they only really started searching west of australia yesterday. By Thursday they expect 6 ships from Australia and the US to be in the area.
This is the search area, its obviously smaller than that huge southern semi-circle, but I guess they think this small chunk (which is still huge) is most likely. Right now its only a surface search, they aren't bringing out the sonar. edit: correction, 6 planes. they'll be operating in and out of Perth. Australia has 4 search planes, we sent down a propeller-driven search plane that was nearby, and our most advanced search plane is flying down Thursday.
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The unsexy suicide option seems to be most plausible.
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So the captain incapacitated the first officer, climbed the plane to 45,000 to knock out the passengers and then just coasted off into the proverbial sunset until the fuel ran out?
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Suicide or terrorist, it would take a pretty evil person to do this. There are plenty of ways to off yourself and make it look accidental without murdering nearly 250 innocent people.
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Or the co-pilot and pilot conspired together.
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It just seems like a lot of things could go wrong for such a suicide plan to work..
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If it turns out to be a suicide, let's practice some prevention going forward.
If you're an attractive woman boarding a flight, always flirt with the male pilot and copilot. Give them something to live for, at least for another 24 hours. If you're a guy, don't flirt with any flight crew, because you're probably unattractive and will just come off as creepy. Instead, tell them how cool a job they have.
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Couldn't agree more, and I am open to other theories. A slow moving 7 hour fire does not seem likely.
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If it's a suicide, then what were his goals (other than killing himself)?
If he wanted to send a message to his ex-wife and the government, then you'd think he'd communicate and then do a nose dive. Plus, that's easier to do without losing your nerve. If he wanted to do a silent suicide and leave insurance money to his kids, then it doesn't seem like taking the plane off course and disappearing would do that. It seems like you'd manufacture an emergency and bring the plane down after conking the other pilot in the head. Why would you take seven hours to kill yourself when it's going to become apparent that it's a suicide? I don't get it.
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