Malaysian airlines 777 missing

[NatCigg]

Nothing to go off yet.  Oil slick was not from the plane.  Debris that has been found is not from the plane.  It is be coming more likely that the plane broke up very high in the air because of the lack of debris.

Radar returns suggest the plane may have turned around.

Not much, if any, solid evidence yet.

[Karnak]

Broke up very high would make for a large debris field.  Being intact when it hits the water leads to a small debris field.  In either case there is a debris field.

[Rich46yo]

If it blew up you'd have to think they would have found the debris field by now. Its no secret "where" the plane was cause it was on multiple Dars. If there was a technical problem you'd have to think they would have gotten a message off.

Its starting to look like the pilot rode the thing into the water. Its happened a few times in the past. Of course Im just guessing.

[puller]

Let us all remember that there hasn't been an airliner crash in history without a large debris field associated with it...if the plane broke up at altitude there will be a huge debris field full of those floating seats and luggage...I'm thinking they will find the plane intact when Al-Queda (or however its spelled) or some other extremist group, puts out a video wanting ransom for the passengers     now how they 'lost' a plane is what I want to know...shouldn't the plane show up on radar even though the transponder or whatever they use to transmit the plane's location goes off or is turned off?

[smoe]

What I cannot believe is these are multi-billion dollar planes, but yet they still have no GPS or satellite positioning system for such events as this.

[Tupac]

What I cannot believe is these are multi-billion dollar planes, but yet they still have no GPS or satellite positioning system for such events as this.

I always assumed they did

>2012+2
>losing an airliner

[Rich46yo]

What I cannot believe is these are multi-billion dollar planes, but yet they still have no GPS or satellite positioning system for such events as this.

Yes they do. They are loaded with communications and locational technology. They also have real time data links that tells the airline exactly where the aircraft is and how its performing.

[rogwar]

Strange they still have not found it. It's a big ocean though.

You would also think if it was terrorism some group would have claimed responsibility by now.

[Tupac]

Strange they still have not found it. It's a big ocean though.

You would also think if it was terrorism some group would have claimed responsibility by now.

If it was, the plan might still be in motion.

[guncrasher]

Just going to throw this out there, why isn't anyone asking "where is the ACARS datalink data?"

most likely because we dont know what it is.  btw why arent you asking?



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[mbailey]

Strange they still have not found it. It's a big ocean though.

You would also think if it was terrorism some group would have claimed responsibility by now.

I know that Ramsi Youseff planted a bomb on a Philippine airlines plane ....it was done as a test run for other bombings he had planned. He never took credit for it so as not to bring attention to his real plan to bring down US airliners.....Plane did not crash but 1 passenger was killed....Philippine Airlines Flight 434


And i agree   really strange nothing found yet.....but your right....its a big ocean

[USRanger]

Wasn't their flight path over VietNam though?  We are still finding missing aircraft 50 years after the war in that horrible triple canopy jungle.

[68ZooM]

hmmmm, i think cnn reported pilot Amman Withabom tho reports of a possible asian co pilot Dis Shew Goboom, stay tuned.

Real piss poor taste there don't you think? I guess you tired to make a funny but guess what it sucked.

[LCADolby]

Not as bad as this news channel from the Asiana 214 crash

[Gman]

Off topic, but that incident Dolby proves that nothing is so dumb to not be possible.  How that ever got on the air, considering how many people had to have seen those made up names prior to the anchor speaking them and the picture going up.....


It's only been a couple of days, and the area of water being searched is larger than the state of PA, it just may be a matter of they haven't found the debris area yet.

I find it very strange that one family was able to connect to a family members phone who was on board - could it really be floating and working from some cell tower someplace, or have fallen to dry ground someplace and survived?  I don't know if this story has been discredited or not yet, but it made me think of that gopro camera video on youtube of the camera that fell into a pig farm, and was found working 6 months later with the video intact - based on that it's possible for a cell phone to survive a fall from high altitude I suppose.