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Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China
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Anonymous
I heard on the radio this morning that if you flew every single day, in order for you to be in a fatal airplane crash you'd have to live to be 35,000 years old (worded differently but that's the gist) That helped settle my nerves for the trip I'm about to take. |
Anonymous
| If the plane did have a miraculous landing like Captain Sully did on the Hudson, except on an island-- could the passengers survive? What are the islands like in this search area? |
Anonymous
Thanks for sharing these. I used to travel weekly for work. Now I only fly a few times a year and, since I've had kids I'm an anxious wreck. |
Anonymous
The landing on the Hudson was such a miracle and everyone got out quick bc there are ferry boats on that river that picked people up before water filled the plane and it sank. Here -- there were no such boats around in case of any water landing. In terms of landing in a remote island -- not sure you can land such a huge plane without some kind of runway; if the plane just came down somewhere on land, lots of people wouldn't survive the crash landing -- those who survived would be injured and have received no care in 3-4 days. |
Anonymous
| Does lack of a fire on land mean that a landing did not occur on land? No one has reported seeing fire or flames during these searches, right? |
Anonymous
| Would be amazing if the plane landed somewhere safely and everyone or most everyone is doing okay. |
Anonymous
Would love this! |
Anonymous
But if the landing was on land, wouldn't the GPS located it and black box be pinging like crazy and picked up by all the high tech tools? That is why they are concentrating on the sea b/c the satellites can't pick up any triangulation or the pinging from the black box is not obvious. |
Anonymous
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBREA2701720140312?irpc=932
Malaysian general now denying that the plane changed course. |
Anonymous
Me too! I saw on tv that passengers cell phones are ringing and ringing when love ones have been calling. Would this support that theory? |
Anonymous
| I'm so addicted to this story. I cannot pull away. Sorry Ukraine. |
Anonymous
A quote from this article (a year old, but still pretty good): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/business/2012-was-the-safest-year-for-airlines-globally-since-1945.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1394593432-Ev4feK+qABx1+PgYJ/TUVQ "In the last five years, the death risk for passengers in the United States has been one in 45 million flights, according to Arnold Barnett, a professor of statistics at M.I.T. In other words, flying has become so reliable that a traveler could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash, he said." |
Anonymous
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Why release this?:
"Maybe somebody on the flight has bought a huge sum of insurance, who wants family to gain from it or somebody who has owed somebody so much money, you know, we are looking at all possibilities," Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said at a news conference on Tuesday. |
Anonymous
| I'm beginning to wonder if the plane was flying low trying to land and the Malaysian military accidentally shot it down. |
Anonymous
Why would the military shoot it down if it was flying over open water (not really a threat to inhabitable area)? Wouldn't there be a copy of the radio transmission warning calls/communication with the control tower? Passengers wouldn't be texting frantically to loved ones as they descend from the cruising 35000 ft to something "too low" - surely the cabin pressure would've prompted air masks to fall, turbulance, etc. |