Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get- How could the plane keep flying for hours with both the tracking turned off and NO PASSENGERS making any phone calls or texts?

You think there's cell phone reception out there?!!!

But but, the verizon guy… Can you hear me now?
Isn't he out there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get- How could the plane keep flying for hours with both the tracking turned off and NO PASSENGERS making any phone calls or texts?

You think there's cell phone reception out there?!!!

Not pp, but when the plane turned around and went over land/Malaysia again, could those cell signals still be received? Or were they too high up?

Although it's entirely possible none of the passengers were even aware of any change or disruption, with it being the middle of the night. Most everyone was probably asleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get- How could the plane keep flying for hours with both the tracking turned off and NO PASSENGERS making any phone calls or texts?

You think there's cell phone reception out there?!!!

+1.

Plus, it was a red-eye I thought. Could be that a lot of the passengers were asleep during most of the ordeal. We don't know how it went down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get- How could the plane keep flying for hours with both the tracking turned off and NO PASSENGERS making any phone calls or texts?

You think there's cell phone reception out there?!!!

Not pp, but when the plane turned around and went over land/Malaysia again, could those cell signals still be received? Or were they too high up?

Although it's entirely possible none of the passengers were even aware of any change or disruption, with it being the middle of the night. Most everyone was probably asleep.

asleep, and also they just have to turn the wifi off. you're not going to get regular cell reception up there. or they were already all dead if they cut the oxygen.

[Anonymous]

Malaysian authorities are either hopelessly incompetent or outright obstructionist, or both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They wanted what was in the cargo area.

im sure if something that valuable war in the cargo area then the police would have brought it up. No one is going to hijack a plane to get to the contents of a passenger suitcase.

I'm not talking about what's inside suitcases. I'm talking about the cargo that has been mentioned in some theories that Malaysia has refused to reveal the contents of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Malaysian authorities are either hopelessly incompetent or outright obstructionist, or both.

You kind of have to cut them some slack. By default, they HAVE to take the lead on the investigation. Normally the place of wreckage takes the lead, but without that, it's the origin country. By treaty, when/if the wreckage is found, a new country may very well have to take the lead, if the wreckage is found in their waters.

It's easy to take for granted that most countries simply do not have the capacity, experience, technology, or staff to deal with this kind of thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They wanted what was in the cargo area.

im sure if something that valuable war in the cargo area then the police would have brought it up. No one is going to hijack a plane to get to the contents of a passenger suitcase.

I'm not talking about what's inside suitcases. I'm talking about the cargo that has been mentioned in some theories that Malaysia has refused to reveal the contents of.

You watch too many movies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Malaysian authorities are either hopelessly incompetent or outright obstructionist, or both.

You kind of have to cut them some slack. By default, they HAVE to take the lead on the investigation. Normally the place of wreckage takes the lead, but without that, it's the origin country. By treaty, when/if the wreckage is found, a new country may very well have to take the lead, if the wreckage is found in their waters.

It's easy to take for granted that most countries simply do not have the capacity, experience, technology, or staff to deal with this kind of thing.

This is my point. Most countries don't have a transportation safety board. Canada, US and France are about it. So they should request that the US take the lead because it was a US made plane. Their delays in turning data over to investigators is outrageous. Time is of the essence and they're screwing around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They wanted what was in the cargo area.

im sure if something that valuable war in the cargo area then the police would have brought it up. No one is going to hijack a plane to get to the contents of a passenger suitcase.

I'm not talking about what's inside suitcases. I'm talking about the cargo that has been mentioned in some theories that Malaysia has refused to reveal the contents of.

You watch too many movies.

Because drug trafficking does not exist. There's no way someone loading the plane's cargo, luggage and all, could have been paid to place a large quantity of drugs on a plane headed to China, right?

[Anonymous]

FYI there ARE ways for pilots to notify ground control that a plane has been hijacked, without getting on radio. They have to enter a secret numeric code on a keypad. No such code or signal was submitted via flight 370.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI there ARE ways for pilots to notify ground control that a plane has been hijacked, without getting on radio. They have to enter a secret numeric code on a keypad. No such code or signal was submitted via flight 370.

Does every plane have this or just US planes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FYI there ARE ways for pilots to notify ground control that a plane has been hijacked, without getting on radio. They have to enter a secret numeric code on a keypad. No such code or signal was submitted via flight 370.

Does every plane have this or just US planes?

CNN was just showing a simulator for the same plane - apparently all 777s are outfitted with this capacity.

[Anonymous]

If it was hijacked maybe that's why they picked this particular flight, a red eye from Malaysia. Most of the passengers would be sleeping, there wouldn't be much air traffic and not as many air traffic controllers and others on the ground as concerned. And as a PP said, perhaps Malaysia wouldn't retaliate, or even initially be on alert for terrorists, like some other countries. They also didn't seem to have the resources to know that something happened until much later and then they didn't have the resources to do anything about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed the lack of public reporting about the pilot and other passengers. I imagine the investigators are scouring the lives of everyone on that plane. I am sure there is a lot of info that just isn't public yet, especially if they are trying to stop a secondary terrorist act. Could there be some advantage to publicly stating that they think the plane is deep in the Indian ocean while actually believing that it is on land somewhere?

They are reporting on it (not to be snarky) but you probably arent reading the right sources.

Ive seen pics plus details about the pilot. Also Malaysian authorities have already searched his home.

They have also reported about other passengers such as the male Chinese passenger who not too long ago took flight simulatiom training.

Yes, also another passenger from new zealand who was flyinh to Mongolia for a new job took off his wedding ring and watch before the flight and instructed his wife to give them to his two sons both under 3 years old should something happen to him.

A number of people are frightened of flying, especially long flights, and they do things like this. It's not uncommon, so I don't make anything of this particular example.