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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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Data is still on the box. Its just stops pinging. The Air India crash black box wasn't found for 2 years it still rendered useful info.
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Absolutely. Hell, my airline doesn't even give me free TV anymore. They sure as shooting aren't going to willingly install Inmarsat VSATs on the planes and pay for the data plans.
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It sounds like we have an appalling lack of cell towers in the ocean. I bet that if we put cell towers out there, they'd have all sorts of uses. Air safety, flyer cell calls and internet, and a great reef system for fish. They might interfere with whale migrations, though. Now that I think about it, I've been on airlines recently that are offering internet service to flyers. How are they hooking up? Is that only when you're flying over the U S of A?
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BBC video showing how easy to redirect airplane and turn off transponders.
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Frontier Airlines? Man, I haven't flown them since the sale, and was on a flight last week. I think they were actively trying to give me the worst flying experience possible, and it was all part of their new system. I may be actively avoiding Frontier for a while.
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I mean people are saying it went WAYY passed its ceiling to 45000ft or whatever? If that really happened... its not like they were all the way up there hiding from someone I think something just broke on the plane making them lose all power or something just like Air france flight 447 and then they were just in a climb, and once they hit a certain elevation im sure they just stalled out and gradually fell and crashed. I mean think about it.. first they were at 45000ft then went back down to 24000ft? Sounds like a apparent stall at 45,000 and then descending at X amount of Ft per minute till crashing.. I mean I don't know if the 45,000ft, and 24,000ft is true that's just what ive been reading on here and hearing. |
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Frontier was my favorite airline at one point, but wow, this new system is horrific. It felt like being a prisoner in a POW camp. They're stalking around and making people put their carry-ons in the box, and I think the gate agent gets a commission for each person she screws over with a $100 "gate fee". United is probably going to get my business whenever I have a choice, but I wish I could tolerate Southwest's seating system better.
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