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Malaysia Airlines tragedies

I was hoping that it was a highjacking situation... but something would have surfaced by now..:(.

I believe it's also true with a terrorist attack in that ...someone would have claimed responsibility by now...

that whole... the sky is falling thing... freaked me out EM!:o I'm on a plane in a week...and again 2 weeks after that...and I already don't like it on take off landing...when I can't see the horizon...now I have to worry about meteorites?

how often does that happen?????:eek:
 
huh said:
I was hoping that it was a highjacking situation... but something would have surfaced by now..:(.

I believe it's also true with a terrorist attack in that ...someone would have claimed responsibility by now...

that whole... the sky is falling thing... freaked me out EM!:o I'm on a plane in a week...and again 2 weeks after that...and I already don't like it on take off landing...when I can't see the horizon...now I have to worry about meteorites?

how often does that happen?????:eek:
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If it happened here, that would be the first recorded incident in flight history.

I've seen a small one fly by - once - and I've flown well over a quarter million miles, basically, I've stopped counting.

My point was that that seemed more likely than a hijacking.

Don't worry about it. If a meteorite is going to hit your airplane, it's even more likely to hit your house or while you're taking a walk.

The sky is everywhere and it only falls a little.

Don't worry about it.
 
i guess I always did want to go out in a ball of flames...so:rolleyes: I guess it would be kind of an awesome way to go,,,:)
 
This has got to be so difficult for the families of the crew and passengers. Not knowing what happened, but knowing that realistically the plane crashed or exploded and that their loved ones are no longer with us. My prayers go out to them in this time.

To the poster who said that they're a week out from a flight, it seems like every time I fly somewhere, I read about plane incidents in the days leading up or right after. That plane that made a 'hard landing' at LaGuardia occured on the same day that I landed at JFK. I flew out to the Philippines shortly after the miracle on the Hudson made me scared of flying over water.
 
ChangelingGus said:
They found some floating debris in the sea.
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Yep.

EarlyMon said:
2. Possible debris sighted by the Vietnamese 53 miles south of Tho Chu.

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Point 2 is credible but unconfirmed. It's dark there now, no new credible reports to expect for some hours.
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It's about 8:30 AM there now, so they have daylight to check the area they found, as planned.

Fox's latest just repeated an earlier report that a door was found. That's been discounted and they're going by a better sighting after that one.
 
Nahh this was a explosion . its no parts . unknown if this was a terrorist act but I am a firemen seen many planes on fire or fallen out of the sky from stalling engines . just think the plane is made up of many parts. Some parts are just made to float some are not . in every plane LIFE JACKETS are always present . now just think it blew up and plane parts would float . now if you don't see anything you will see some life jackets or floating oxygen masks, or even luggage sometimes cork also floats . but now this leaves me puzzled cause there wasn't nothing yet . so a explosion comes to mind . but still nothing floating
 
Submarines can't ping for things on the ocean floor.

The data recorders send out a transponder signal. That takes time to locate, especially when you don't know where to look first.

The search area is beyond very large. The wreckage may be scattered or concentrated, it's too early to say that it's not being found.

Everything started late thanks to how Malaysia handled things at the beginning.

It's impossible to predict what would be floating. What *could* be floating is easy, what would be, nope.
 
EarlyMon said:
Submarines can't ping for things on the ocean floor.

The data recorders send out a transponder signal. That takes time to locate, especially when you don't know where to look first.

The search area is beyond very large. The wreckage may be scattered or concentrated, it's too early to say that it's not being found.

Everything started late thanks to how Malaysia handled things at the beginning.

It's impossible to predict what would be floating. What *could* be floating is easy, what would be, nope.
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Yeah, wanna see that in action? Go watch this (which is honestly more comedic value than anything but Early's first point in the quoted post is actually demonstrated)
 
Lol, I actually watched that a few days ago.

Sidescan sonar exists and is used for searching the ocean floor by researchers. Going to that right now would be like looking for a needle in 1,000 haystacks. No telling about the future.

I don't think that they'd ever stop until the data recorders are found.
 
Any mention of how deep the water is in this area? If it's too deep, they may never recover the black boxes.
 
bjacks12 said:
Any mention of how deep the water is in this area? If it's too deep, they may never recover the black boxes.
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I believe it took them two years to find the Air France flight recorders, that was mid-Atlantic from a depth of something like 2 miles. That flight just disappeared as well, no Mayday call or anything.
 
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From http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...0001424052702304704504579429601988903972.html

The Chinese originally searched their southern land, today Malaysia asked Thailand to search the Andaman Sea.

The maps really show how much uncertainty that is - those areas are about a thousand miles apart.
 
The latest reports are that the "liferaft" spotted earlier was in fact unrelated debris. Other reports of possible wreckage have remained unconfirmed. Samples of the oil slick are being tested to determine whether it contains jet fuel.
 
Slug said:
The latest reports are that the "liferaft" spotted earlier was in fact unrelated debris. Other reports of possible wreckage have remained unconfirmed. Samples of the oil slick are being tested to determine whether it contains jet fuel.
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Tests show it's bunker oil, used in ships and not aircraft.

Reports of the tail being found were confirmed false, that was logs tied together.

The door (that kept cropping up in reports) turned into a liferaft in the press before being ruled out.

The Washington Post is still reporting that the liferaft was a life jacket, "according to officials" and the door was reported by "Vietnamese officials."

No officials have said either of those things, the press invented that. All we had was one photo.

The door / liferaft / life jacket reported were all the same piece of unrelated junk.

"I applaud The Washington Post for being able to spell airplane," said EarlyMon to unknown officials in an unconfirmed report.

Quotes and pictures -

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-knowns-unknowns/

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...s-live-Search-for-missing-jet-is-widened.html

The 8 emergency slides on a 777 become liferafts, each is equipped with an emergency location transmitter.

They don't have a good history.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/asiana-evacuation-slides_n_3951154.html
 
EarlyMon said:
"I applaud The Washington Post for being able to spell airplane," said EarlyMon to unknown officials in an unconfirmed report.
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I started my Monday morning with a good laugh thanks to that.... Probably to the annoyance of my coworkers.

It's amazing the lies and garbage that spew in the media. Both the 'reporters' and the 'officials' should lose their jobs.
 
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