Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

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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[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by Pushead2

That is just under the prototypical cruising speed for a 777.

Although, if it was flying low (CAT I/II) the fuel burn rate would be very high. Enough to burn at 4hrs at almost cruising speed? Depends on how much fuel was in that A/C.

I work in the airline industry & this has people stumped big time. More & more people are slowly thinking, maybe this bird is on the ground somewhere?

My pilot buddies and I agree....

[Imon Yourside]

Could YOU solve the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight? Satellite images made public to help locate MH370 jet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...MH370-jet.html

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

Could YOU solve the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight? Satellite images made public to help locate MH370 jet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...MH370-jet.html

So it was aliens?

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by ActiveShooter

The Clayton Hartwig incident aboard the USS Iowa was supposed to be about a homosexual relationship, but they changed that one up too. I think the military just denies and omits it from the reports. I think both cases were correct from the beginning, but then again the media originally said Zimmerman was white. Who knows.

probably because the only statement about that was made under extreme duress and quickly recanted. You should do some research and quit just listening to Fox news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iow..._media_reports

[Donger]

Wow. I presume that the background of the pilots is being thoroughly investigated?

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

My pilot buddies and I agree....

how would you have radio silence though? Somehow along the way someone would have gotten a text or call out wouldn't you think, if everyone is alive?

I think it's Payne Stewart v2.0.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by ActiveShooter

Astonishing how inept Malaysia and her neighbors are.

Yeah, it's kind of harsh but my first thought when this story broke was "I'd never board a Malaysian Airlines flight."

[WhawhaWhat]

U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Flew On for Hours


U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.

Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours, based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. BA 777's engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program.

That raises a host of new questions and possibilities about what happened aboard the widebody jet carrying 239 people, which vanished from civilian air-traffic control radar over the weekend, about one hour into a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

[Eleazar]

If I remember correctly, when Payne Stewart died something happened with his plane to where there was a loss of cabin pressure, everyone would have blacked out soon after, and the plane flew on autopilot until it ran out of fuel, or something of that nature. I wonder if that happened here?

[ActiveShooter]

Originally Posted by Pushead2

That is just under the prototypical cruising speed for a 777.

Although, if it was flying low (CAT I/II) the fuel burn rate would be very high. Enough to burn at 4hrs at almost cruising speed? Depends on how much fuel was in that A/C.

I work in the airline industry & this has people stumped big time. More & more people are slowly thinking, maybe this bird is on the ground somewhere?

That is a real headscratcher. It's flying for at least 5 hours, 4 of those are presumably at low altitude since no radar picked it up and it's burning fuel at a high rate. It's gotta be on the ground in a hostile country.
What communication method do the engines use to report home? It's odd that that comes through fine, but India never made radar contact.
It's hard to believe anyone would be able to fly that jumbo that low for that long over that terrain.
Someone mentioned Aliens. Crazy, but it makes as much sense as all the other theories so far.
Remember the crazy story of Flight 19 where squadron of F6's got lost in the Bermuda triangle and no trace was ever found. This is sure getting like that.

[ActiveShooter]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

probably because the only statement about that was made under extreme duress and quickly recanted. You should do some research and quit just listening to Fox news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iow..._media_reports

Actually that was CNN. Fox news wasn't around during the Hartwig explosion. Wish Fox news was around then since they wait for accuracy before reporting like CNN or NBC. Sorry if you're Gay and butt hurt about how the liberal media reported these incidents. Accuracy is much more important than knowing the genital preference of historical figures.

[ActiveShooter]

Originally Posted by Cochise

If I remember correctly, when Payne Stewart died something happened with his plane to where there was a loss of cabin pressure, everyone would have blacked out soon after, and the plane flew on autopilot until it ran out of fuel, or something of that nature. I wonder if that happened here?

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.

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

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.

And people being able to board these flights with stolen passports is not?

If it was a freak accident, it may not happen again.
If it was some ****ed up militant group, it probably will

[Reerun_KC]

[ActiveShooter]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

I've been thinking the same thing, but I don't know if there's a non radar flooded route there. South Korea's US base would surely pick it up. Kim Jong UN would be foolish to piss of the Chinese, but then again he's foolish.