Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

It could be terrorism without the passports

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Anonymous wrote:It could be terrorism without the passports

The vast majority of plane crashes are not terrorism. Something like 80% are due to pilot error (and not including mechanical, maintenance problems), according to guest on A360.

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Where is this plane and these people?!?! Their poor relatives waiting for word.

At the bottem of the sea. Planes are very complex, read wiki on the Air France plane crash.


But with Air France didn't they find the debris field pretty quickly? Why is it taking so long to find this one?

It took them like 5-6 days to find two bodies and a part of the plane with the Air France crash. If it is windy and a lot of junk in the water it's real hard to Id anything from the air. The plane was a 35,000 feet traveling at 472 knots. So the plane is 6 miles high and moving pretty fast, even if you knew exactly where it lost power, you do not know where it hit the water. Your search area is likely 400 square miles of open ocean. They don't know where it went down. What if traveled 30 minutes or an hour after the last contact?

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Good points. I can't remember how fast it was after Air France.

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north korea


I was thinking the same thing. There was a recent report of a missile that North Korea sent up that came close to a Chinese jet. If there was an explosion from a missile hit I would think that the light would have been picked up by something and I thought I read that there were no explosions picked up in the vicinity of where the communication ended with the plane.

That would be a big missile to reach from north korea to the area where to plane went down.

[Anonymous]

Pilot suicide? It happens.

[Anonymous]

if the plane went nose down into the water I'd assume there would be very little debris?

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Anonymous wrote:if the plane went nose down into the water I'd assume there would be very little debris?

why?

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Anonymous wrote:if the plane went nose down into the water I'd assume there would be very little debris?

why?

diving into a pool vs. cannonball?

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Or what if things started to go wrong and the pilot's only option was to land the aircraft on the water like the Hudson Bay thing that happened a few years ago, but then the plane just slowly sank? Could that be possible? It'd leave no wreckage. If there was an electrical problem, could they have gotten the doors open?

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Anonymous wrote:Or what if things started to go wrong and the pilot's only option was to land the aircraft on the water like the Hudson Bay thing that happened a few years ago, but then the plane just slowly sank? Could that be possible? It'd leave no wreckage. If there was an electrical problem, could they have gotten the doors open?

The water there is relatively shallow. If the search craft are remotely in the area, they'd see something.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or what if things started to go wrong and the pilot's only option was to land the aircraft on the water like the Hudson Bay thing that happened a few years ago, but then the plane just slowly sank? Could that be possible? It'd leave no wreckage. If there was an electrical problem, could they have gotten the doors open?

The water there is relatively shallow. If the search craft are remotely in the area, they'd see something.

Ah, okay.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or what if things started to go wrong and the pilot's only option was to land the aircraft on the water like the Hudson Bay thing that happened a few years ago, but then the plane just slowly sank? Could that be possible? It'd leave no wreckage. If there was an electrical problem, could they have gotten the doors open?

The water there is relatively shallow. If the search craft are remotely in the area, they'd see something.

Shallow means nothing if the water isn't clear. If it's ten feet deep but sandy or muddy (I'm exaggerating here - obviously it's way deeper than that), you still couldn't see things at the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Was anyone on the plane going to testify in some big trial?

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I feel like the hit-show LOST is coming to real life. Was John Locke on the plane?