Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the plane really continued to fly for 4 hours, how in the world could a very large plane not have been picked up on ANYONE'S radar?

Get out over the ocean.

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You think there's no radar out on open waters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the plane really continued to fly for 4 hours, how in the world could a very large plane not have been picked up on ANYONE'S radar?

If it were over the ocean and at certain altitude less of a chance for radar to pick up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the plane really continued to fly for 4 hours, how in the world could a very large plane not have been picked up on ANYONE'S radar?

Get out over the ocean.

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You think there's no radar out on open waters?

There are radar blank spots over the ocean. Also, the plane could have flown under radar.

[Anonymous]

U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours...Engine Data Suggest ...
Now that is a scary thought. Headed out at 3AM to remote open waters. I cringe to think what happened to the passengers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WSJ article says that Boeing engines automatically send updates to Boeing, so they checked their systems and said that according to their updates the plane was flying HOURS after its last known location.

So then it goes on to say that US counter-terrorism is looking at the possibility that the plane was taken to be used later "for another purpose."

Which would mean if the thieves were successful, the plane did NOT go down--one theory. But what of those poor people? If this plane really was stolen, I don't think the group would keep the passengers alive (except maybe a select few for ransom, because that's a lot of people to feed)

Anyways here is the link:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories&mg=reno64-wsj

They could have them in a prison. If it did make it to North Korea or another area without relations that are friendly, would anyone ever know unless the people holding the group made an announcement?

[Anonymous]

My theory (which has probably been mentioned) is that there was some catrosophic malfunction which caused the transponder to stop working and the cabin to depressurize. Maybe (if the turning around part is true). The pilot realized what was happening, was unable to communicate and tried to turn back to land, but became unconcious before he was able to do so. Then the plane continued to fly on auto pilot to God knows where.

Like that flight in Greece a few years back. I was reading that in one case this happened and the plane flew 1000 miles off course before coming down due to lack of fuel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My theory (which has probably been mentioned) is that there was some catrosophic malfunction which caused the transponder to stop working and the cabin to depressurize. Maybe (if the turning around part is true). The pilot realized what was happening, was unable to communicate and tried to turn back to land, but became unconcious before he was able to do so. Then the plane continued to fly on auto pilot to God knows where.

Like that flight in Greece a few years back. I was reading that in one case this happened and the plane flew 1000 miles off course before coming down due to lack of fue
l.

But for the transponder as well as its backup to stop working, there should have been some manual intervention. If in fact there was a catastrophic malfunction, don't you think the plane would have crashed in the immediate vicinity?
If it did fly on autopilot for such a long stretch, someone would have seen it or detected it, don't you think? I mean this is world news now..so everyone knows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My theory (which has probably been mentioned) is that there was some catrosophic malfunction which caused the transponder to stop working and the cabin to depressurize. Maybe (if the turning around part is true). The pilot realized what was happening, was unable to communicate and tried to turn back to land, but became unconcious before he was able to do so. Then the plane continued to fly on auto pilot to God knows where.

Like that flight in Greece a few years back. I was reading that in one case this happened and the plane flew 1000 miles off course before coming down due to lack of fuel.

I thought this also, but the experts seem emphatic that the transponder can only be turned off manually. New form of malfunction?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My theory (which has probably been mentioned) is that there was some catrosophic malfunction which caused the transponder to stop working and the cabin to depressurize. Maybe (if the turning around part is true). The pilot realized what was happening, was unable to communicate and tried to turn back to land, but became unconcious before he was able to do so. Then the plane continued to fly on auto pilot to God knows where.

Like that flight in Greece a few years back. I was reading that in one case this happened and the plane flew 1000 miles off course before coming down due to lack of fue
l.


But for the transponder as well as its backup to stop working, there should have been some manual intervention. If in fact there was a catastrophic malfunction, don't you think the plane would have crashed in the immediate vicinity?
If it did fly on autopilot for such a long stretch, someone would have seen it or detected it, don't you think? I mean this is world news now..so everyone knows

No the ocean is a big place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
According to online news sources, nothing has been confirmed yet. What I find unnerving is the possibility that the plane is somewhere, getting prepped to do another journey to inflict more damage. And what would that mean for the passengers who were on board? Awful...


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Pp is trying to sinuate that plane was hijacked and will be used again as a weapon yeah?


PP has been watching much too much TV.


Really? In 1999, we were worried about Y2K, not someone using a plane full of jet fuel as a bomb. Not saying that this is the case here, just the truth can be stranger than fiction.

No people in the security sector thought about it. What do you think they do all day, sit around and pick their nose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My theory (which has probably been mentioned) is that there was some catrosophic malfunction which caused the transponder to stop working and the cabin to depressurize. Maybe (if the turning around part is true). The pilot realized what was happening, was unable to communicate and tried to turn back to land, but became unconcious before he was able to do so. Then the plane continued to fly on auto pilot to God knows where.

Like that flight in Greece a few years back. I was reading that in one case this happened and the plane flew 1000 miles off course before coming down due to lack of fuel.

I thought this also, but the experts seem emphatic that the transponder can only be turned off manually. New form of malfunction?

Interseting, I thought i had heard otherwise (that a malfunction could have caused it to turn off). This article mentions a power failure would eventually cause the transponder and backup to fail (but power failures on planes are also rare due to multiple back up systems) or the transponder could have just broke. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/12/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-transponder/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

I don't think it is that crazy that no one would have seen the plane flying since the ocean is so big, but i thought it had a ton of gas left (like enough for 7.5 hours?) so who knows where/waht it would have flown over if it was just continuing as a ghost plane.

In the other cases of this happening we were aware pretty quickly (and fighter jets were sent up) but they did not have issues with the transponders. I don't quite understand why if the Malaysian government knew the plane veered off course, they they did not send fighter jets to meet it (but maybe this is US/European procedure).

[Anonymous]

This is all so scary and weird!

http://www.viralnovelty.com/six-important-facts-youre-told-lost-malaysia-airlines-flight-370/

[Anonymous]

the plane crashed in the ocean. why is this such a big deal? the ocean if filled with all kinds of things that went down throughout history.

Yes, it could have flown low enough over the ocean to not be picked up by radar -- but how could all those passengers not have used a cell phone to say what was going on? Not a one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the plane crashed in the ocean. why is this such a big deal? the ocean if filled with all kinds of things that went down throughout history.

Yes, it could have flown low enough over the ocean to not be picked up by radar -- but how could all those passengers not have used a cell phone to say what was going on? Not a one?

I don't think it is a big deal that it crashed in the ocean, but it is unusual for something of this size to not be found quickly. Expecially when planes are so heavily tracked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the plane crashed in the ocean. why is this such a big deal? the ocean if filled with all kinds of things that went down throughout history.

Yes, it could have flown low enough over the ocean to not be picked up by radar -- but how could all those passengers not have used a cell phone to say what was going on? Not a one?

If the cabin depressurized, they would have all been passed out or dead.