Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now there are reports of four suspect passengers with false passports and that the plane may have tried to turn back.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/malaysia-airlines-plane-vanishes-over-south-china-sea/2014/03/08/97b1eb4a-a69f-11e3-bf3d-63f593e487a9_story.html

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26502843

According to your BBC link:

"Malaysia's Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, initially said at least four names on the passenger list were "suspect" but later told the BBC there were in fact only two suspect names."

9 March 2014 Last updated at 09:11 ET

Updated a minute after I posted it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Im becoming extremely upset that they cannot find this plane. It did not just vanish.I almosr want to charter a plane and a team of divers and look myself. I would if I could afford it.

Sorry I have to ask but what difference does it make when the plane is found. Wreckage will be found soon but it is highly unlikely anyone survived the crash. Spend your time in helping those you can rather than developing ego-centric fantasies in which you find plane wreckage. Thank God you don't have the money to waste it on such a folly

You apparently havent heard of people that survive in air pockets of vessels underwater. It is not neccessary to insult me become I choose to spend my time and money wanting to help others. God bless you.

Would there be survivors if the plane fell from 35k feet?

We dont know that it fell from that high. If indeed it is in the ocean it could have fallen from much lower. At this point we dont know anything since air traffic control lost contact and we dont have the black box. This is why we NEED to find this plane.

[Anonymous]

The plane had 6-7 hours worth of fuel. One theory is that it inadvertently went off course so the search parties may be looking in the wrong areas.

[Anonymous]

I need a report that the plane tried to turn around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I need a report that the plane tried to turn around.

If it turned around, wouldn't the pilots send out a message that that was what they were doing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But the pilots were very experienced with 1,000s of hours of flight travel behind them. Very experienced. Muslim terrorism is very active in that part of the world. I am hearing the false passports were used to get a bomb on board. The plane exploded over the ocean, leaving the oil slick and no black/orange box.

Please refrain from commenting again and spreading your hysteria, until you know what in the world you're talking about.

This is not the only person saying terrorism. The major news stations are saying it also.

"Major news stations" need to sell ratings. They know no more than you and I.

And yes, once they find the plane they can recover the black box with divers fairly easily.

It's not just from news stations who are trying to sell ratings. This is from a public-private security partnership with the FBI:

Information related to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that was operating from KUL to PEK on 7 March 2014:

As of this report, the location of the missing aircraft has not been confirmed. While it is perhaps too early to speculate, there are certain factors that are raising concern amongst our analysts.

These include:

-The excellent safety record of the Boeing 777-200.
-The very good safety record of Malaysia Airlines.
-The loss of the aircraft on radar at cruising altitude - the safest point of flight.
-The immediate loss of radio contact with the aircraft.
-The fact that no distress signal was received from the aircraft.
-Open source reporting that two passengers on the flight were using passports (Austria and Italy) that were reported stolen within the past two years in Thailand.

Some considerations:

-The probability of two passports stolen at different times (1 year apart) appearing on the same flight are highly coincidental. (There exists the possibility that additional stolen passports may be linked to the flight).
-Data of both stolen passports (Austrian and Italian), would have been listed in the Interpol Database and would have been "flagged."
-Both passports would have required entry Visas for China prior to departure.
-There is little history of illegal migration trends from Malaysia to China thereby raising the question of the motivation behind impostors traveling on stolen passports.
-There have been arrests related to stolen Western Passports with connections to Thailand and Al Qaida - see link
-There have been a number of security-related incidents at KUL airport in the past few years.
-The recent "uptick" in terrorist activity by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (linked to Al Qaida) against China.

Again, while it may be too early to speculate, we must consider that there may be a security-related issue to flight MH370.

For now, our thoughts and prayers are with the passengers, their families and friends affected by the incident related to MH370.

[Anonymous]

Now they are reporting that the plane may have disintegrated mid air which would explain the lack of debris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highly doubt it's terrorism. No claim of responsibility. Nothing to really incite terror. The passport thing is probably immigration or drug related. The two people with the phony passports were headed on to western Europe from Beijing.

Because they had tickets through to Western Europe and EU passports, they weren't required to have a visa from China.

[Anonymous]

Report of small debris floating in Vietnamese waters.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304732804579427991198487418?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304732804579427991198487418.html&fpid=2,7,121,122,201,401,641,1009

[Anonymous]

Reminded me of the Air France flight from Rio to Paris that just "disappeared" for a few days I think, until they found debris on the ocean. I think it took them YEARS to find the black box. It is so unsettling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

[Anonymous]

Great. I'm reading this on my flight layover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highly doubt it's terrorism. No claim of responsibility. Nothing to really incite terror. The passport thing is probably immigration or drug related. The two people with the phony passports were headed on to western Europe from Beijing.

Because they had tickets through to Western Europe and EU passports, they weren't required to have a visa from China.

I thought I read somewhere that everyone on the flight had Chinese visas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminded me of the Air France flight from Rio to Paris that just "disappeared" for a few days I think, until they found debris on the ocean. I think it took them YEARS to find the black box. It is so unsettling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Yep. That was discussed earlier in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great. I'm reading this on my flight layover.

Stop reading now! Seriously.

Signed,

Former Frequent Flyer now Phobic Flyer
(since 9/11/01)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im becoming extremely upset that they cannot find this plane. It did not just vanish.I almosr want to charter a plane and a team of divers and look myself. I would if I could afford it.

Sorry I have to ask but what difference does it make when the plane is found. Wreckage will be found soon but it is highly unlikely anyone survived the crash. Spend your time in helping those you can rather than developing ego-centric fantasies in which you find plane wreckage. Thank God you don't have the money to waste it on such a folly

You apparently havent heard of people that survive in air pockets of vessels underwater. It is not neccessary to insult me become I choose to spend my time and money wanting to help others. God bless you.

Would there be survivors if the plane fell from 35k feet?

We dont know that it fell from that high. If indeed it is in the ocean it could have fallen from much lower. At this point we dont know anything since air traffic control lost contact and we dont have the black box. This is why we NEED to find this plane.

I hate to be crass, but no, sadly, anyone who survived the crash is now dead. The only need to find the plane is to recover bodies and the wreck so they can figure out what the heck happened. A few people survived the initial Lockerbie crash, but died very soon after. This plane went into the water, and the probability of anyone surviving crash/explosion or whatever happened, plus having the strength to get to the surface and tread water for over 24 hours is slim. It's an all around tragedy.