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ShowtimeSBMVP · 09:02 AM

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/

Stewie · 03-13-2014, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Oh. Or perhaps I should say O2.

Huh?

tk13 · 03-13-2014, 04:56 PM

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=22894802

ABC News is reporting that there are two communications systems that were shut down. A data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 AM. The transponder at 1:21 AM. US officials are "convinced" this was done manually. If so, this was not an accident.

ActiveShooter · 03-13-2014, 04:58 PM

Those families are emotional yo yo's with all the wrong info being reported. I'm sure they're all holding on to hope that they're still alive.
It's gotta be excruciating.

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2014, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Stewie

Huh?

Oxygen joke. But judging from the reaction it got, it may as well be an Argon joke.

stonedstooge · 03-13-2014, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Oxygen joke. But judging from the reaction it got, it may as well be an Argon joke.

BWillie · 03-13-2014, 05:02 PM

Guys guys guys, the answer to who caused this is easy.

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2014, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tk13

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=22894802

ABC News is reporting that there are two communications systems that were shut down. A data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 AM. The transponder at 1:21 AM. US officials are "convinced" this was done manually. If so, this was not an accident.

Fourteen minutes apart does seem unlikely for an electrical problem. Maybe a fire could do that, but the theory of an intentional shutdown becomes much more plausible.

I'm still having trouble with them supposedly passing over land undetected, but I guess maybe those areas of land aren't very populated, so maybe it's possible. If they landed somewhere for nefarious reasons, there aren't a lot of places to land a 777 secretly. Is someone building a 7000 foot grass airstrip in the jungle?

htismaqe · 03-13-2014, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by tk13

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=22894802

ABC News is reporting that there are two communications systems that were shut down. A data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 AM. The transponder at 1:21 AM. US officials are "convinced" this was done manually. If so, this was not an accident.

Of course.

ghak99 · 03-13-2014, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Oxygen joke. But judging from the reaction it got, it may as well be an Argon joke.

I laughed.

Eleazar · 03-13-2014, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ActiveShooter

The 777 should have dropped the air masks in that event. Even if a door fell off, the masks would've dropped and the Cockpit should have enough air to allow staff to get masks. Autopilot should have put the plane in a very radar rich position. No Autopilot and I would imagine it would go down pretty fast, not stay up for 4 extra hours.

Yeah, "should have", but obviously a bunch of stuff that should have happened didn't, or this plane wouldn't be at the bottom of the ocean.

Eleazar · 03-13-2014, 06:48 PM

Something unprecedented happened here.

I'm going to take the odds on "pilot suicide". What have you guys got?

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2014, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Cochise

Something unprecedented happened here.

I'm going to take the odds on "pilot suicide". What have you guys got?

I was initially going with Payne Stewart, but I'm fading on that theory given the news about stuff being turned off at different times.

I'm going to go with terrorist test run to take hostages, and in this case they just killed themselves and everybody else to eliminate any clues about what they did.

DTLB58 · 03-13-2014, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

I'm sure we can find a reason to bomb some natives.

Well Obama isn't but if we bring back W. ???
And that doesn't deserve being moved to the D.C.!

DTLB58 · 03-13-2014, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Cochise

Yeah, "should have", but obviously a bunch of stuff that should have happened didn't, or this plane wouldn't be at the bottom of the ocean.

We don't know that.

Marcellus · 03-13-2014, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by tk13

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=22894802

ABC News is reporting that there are two communications systems that were shut down. A data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 AM. The transponder at 1:21 AM. US officials are "convinced" this was done manually. If so, this was not an accident.

If true, and that's a big IF, then no doubt it was not an accident.

But that doesn't lock in terrorist since no one has claimed responsibility for this. I mean isn't that the point, to be responsible?

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