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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[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

Still haven't seen where this isn't plausible:

- Fire in the wheel well or front of plane at takeoff or shortly thereafter.

You'd only get this far before the onboard systems detected fire, and then they would have radioed something about it.

[ghak99]

Originally Posted by DenverChief

They turned around and flew back over Malaysia 1.5 hours into the flight. I'm assuming that means they spent a total of 3 hours of the 8 hours over cell towers.

When in the time line was the spike to 45K in order to kill the passengers. Assuming this even happened.

[gblowfish]

Mystery solved.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Life insurance? I wouldn't dismiss suicide just because it would have been easier to crash in the south china sea, perhaps he had a reason to make everyone believe the plane mysteriously vanished.

edit: we've actually had that scenario before a long time ago, where an off-duty pilot who was in trouble with the airline had a huge life insurance policy, bought a ticket, and tried to overpower the crew so that he could crash the plane and make it look like an accident. That wouldn't work today because of the cockpit voice recorder in the black box. So, if you wanted to do something like this today, you'd have to make sure the black box is never found.

it wasn't a long time ago, it was in the 90s, and the CVR is basically the same as it was then, only on a short loop.

[ping2000]

Give the professor a few coconuts and some palm fronds and he'll get that baby back in the air in no time.

[srvy]

Best possible explanation I have read so far.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1107...feeds%2Flatest

[SLAG]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

it wasn't a long time ago, it was in the 90s, and the CVR is basically the same as it was then, only on a short loop.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...&postcount=262

[Steron]

Originally Posted by Dick Bull

Agreed, not much in terms of difficult decisions. Save a million or save 200.

Sorry 200.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.

[Reerun_KC]

HOLY shit they took it to 45,000 ft?

Those pilots would have to have been the best of the best 777 pilots, taking a plane like that higher than its service ceiling. I would of been all they could of handled just to keep it flying at that point.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by ghak99

When in the time line was the spike to 45K in order to kill the passengers. Assuming this even happened.

You don't have to go that high to kill passengers with a decompression...

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Jimmya

This morning they are saying it may never been found.

If we can find Carmen San Diego we can find this plane.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

You don't have to go that high to kill passengers with a decompression...

Exactly. Assuming Samuel L Jackson wasn't on board you could load it up with snakes.

[Donger]

Is there any reason why they shouldn't make it impossible for ANYONE to turn of the transponder?

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by arrowheadnation

A guy on my cousin's Facebook list (big time conspiracy theorist) thinks a terrorist group has the plane and that they're retrofitting it as some sort of biological weapon and are planning to fly to/crash it into some large city with the passengers as hostages. That way if the world discovers them before they can complete the act, the world will have to make the choice of shooting it down and killing the hostages or calling their bluff and hope the weapon isn't real.

Since 9-11 happened that plane will be shot down before its even a question.

[Bob Dole]

It is still beyond Bob Dole's comprehension that in this day and age, we are still looking for a black box, instead of collecting that data off-vehicle in real-time.