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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight

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theater.thug
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA2701720140308?irpc=932

Ground loses contact with flight from Kuala Lampur to Beijing. Says they would have run out of fuel by now. Pretty crazy stuff.
Mar 7 2014 9:11PM
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esotericjive
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scary shit man
Mar 7 2014 9:17PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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how in the fuck do we lose a jumbo jet in today's day and age?
Mar 7 2014 9:25PM
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skier_boy26
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Lots of unknowns, but doesn't sound good


"Aviation sources in China report that radar data suggest a steep and sudden descent of the aircraft, during which the track of the aircraft changed from 024 degrees to 333 degrees. The aircraft was estimated to contact Ho Chi Minh Control Center (Vietnam) at 01:20L, but contact was never established."
Mar 7 2014 9:49PM
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Jpurd
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It seems that it has most likely crashed according to CNN. Thoughts and prayers go out to all of those families that have members on the flight.

Mar 7 2014 9:52PM
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yangumane
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how does a massive jet disappear? surely we can find such a thing on radar or something?
Mar 7 2014 9:54PM
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El_Barto.
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Ho Lee Fuk
Mar 7 2014 9:55PM
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GayWolf420
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aliens
Mar 7 2014 9:55PM
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skier_boy26
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It crashes in to some rural SE Asia hills, that's how it disappears.
Mar 7 2014 9:56PM
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Iraq_Lobster
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This is lost all over again.......... Wait a minute
Mar 7 2014 9:59PM
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skier_boy26
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Or the Gulf of Thailand/South China Sea
Mar 7 2014 10:13PM
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Jpurd
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It sounds like there is a possibility of it crashing in the south china see. Let us hope this is not true.
Mar 7 2014 10:46PM
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2_fadez
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it explodes and crashes into the ocean, which unfortunately probably is what happened
Mar 7 2014 11:06PM
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ThatCOprep
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Reports of signals from it in Vietnam.
Mar 7 2014 11:24PM
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Scaredwhiteboy
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Sounds like everybody is probably dead. The plane's been out of the air for almost 11 hours now. If anybody survived they would have been able to call for help.

I'm very curious to hear what happened. I wonder if they were shot down. I can't imagine a mechanical or technical failure would cause the plane to just fall off the grid.
Mar 8 2014 12:30AM
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saskskier
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What makes you think if there were survivors they would be able to contact someone? There are some pretty wild, desolate, mountainous areas of SE Asia.

I'm way more inclined to think it was mechanical/technical/pilot error than being shot down or something along those lines.
Mar 8 2014 12:55AM
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Peter.
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god damnit theater thug how have you not been caught yet


Mar 8 2014 1:34AM
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PsychedelicMoose
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Aliens.
Mar 8 2014 1:45AM
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Black.Bird
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Reuters just reported that the plane crashed in the South China Sea. No details on survivors or fatalities
Mar 8 2014 1:50AM
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Ribss.
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Everyone is dead. I've been closely following this all day at multiple sources.
Mar 8 2014 5:06AM
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Mag
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The thing I don't get, is how they wouldn't be able to contact anyone just before they crashed?
Mar 8 2014 6:35AM
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fujarome
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Either it happened that suddenly, or like the air France crash in 2009, they didn't even realize they were crashing.

But really, no one knows. I remember there was the same discussion when an egyptair flight crashed awhile back. Literally disappeared and everyone blamed one thing or another. Then as it turns out, the Co pilot crashed it on purpose. Just so many theories and variables that you never know
Mar 8 2014 9:44AM
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shocker611
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Just watched that again. Forgot how amazing it was
Mar 8 2014 10:58AM
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soulskier
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My money is on a trip into space
Mar 8 2014 11:15AM
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MilaKunis
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They found two oil slicks believed to be made from the plane http://fxn.ws/1fft7Ug
Mar 8 2014 11:25AM
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SkiThe603
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they'll find it, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Mar 8 2014 12:19PM
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saskskier
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Why not? Is Malaysia Air known for regularly crashing planes or poor/sketchy maintenance records? Let them figure out what happened before jumping to conclusions.
Mar 8 2014 12:19PM
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JWD*
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They found a couple oil slicks around the area that was lost contact, no doubt it crashed. Scary to think no one may ever know what happened. I really do hope there are survivors out of this. Thoughts and prayers to all families

Mar 8 2014 1:52PM
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Rumi.
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The thing that sucks about these tragedies is you have to sit and wait for weeks or months until they find the black boxes before anyone know definitively what happened. Such a sad story, something you never see coming.
Mar 8 2014 3:42PM
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fujarome
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Read a report that claims the last info about the plane was that it was diving almost vertically, and facing a completely different heading than it should have.

Mar 8 2014 4:01PM
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hippy.
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This is really scary...They all could be alive stranded in a jungle or all hopefully not but dead...Keep us updated news junkies!!
Mar 8 2014 4:21PM
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El_Barto.
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Sully woulda landed the fuck outta that plane
Mar 8 2014 4:43PM
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soulskier
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Do we really know anything until we have a plane?
Mar 8 2014 6:41PM
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.Rybak.
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Not really.
Mar 8 2014 6:49PM
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whoa-dere
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didn't reuters say it was found?
Mar 8 2014 6:54PM
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Abu_Hajaar
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This is some crazy shit. It was probably crashed deliberately imo
Mar 8 2014 10:28PM
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yangumane
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it seems weird that terrorists would crash a plane into the ocean. they usually want to create a bigger disaster than that
Mar 8 2014 10:32PM
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SkiThe603
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bet the planes communication was killed and its gonna end up in the US somewhere within the next day


also its probably an asian pilot so are we really shocked something has gone wrong
Mar 8 2014 10:37PM
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theBearJew
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Any updates on this? I couldn't believe it when I heard it, jumbo jet just disappears.
Mar 9 2014 12:00AM
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BMB
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For those of you who don't know much about commercial airline fleets, a Boeing 777 is a BIG plane.
it must have taken something very wrong to take down something as big as a 777
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Mar 9 2014 12:46AM
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Ribss.
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I've been following this very very closely with my room mate who is Chinese, and fluent in the languages of China. We have been following Chinese and International news and are now pretty sure something catastrophic happened. I've narrowed it down do asphyxia of the pilots due to lack of oxygen in the cockpit, rapid decompression of the aircraft, or a bomb (terrorism).

There were two stolen passports on the plane and the people whom they belonged to both had their passports stolen a year ago or more. The tickets registered to these passports were purchased through the same agent, with the same flight paths, at the same exact time. I'm gonna call terrorism at this point.

Below is the eticket info, which can be found from many different sources.

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More info and developing news can be found here on this forum
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6014938#menu77

Beware, its already well over 700 posts.
Mar 9 2014 3:25AM
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Ribss.
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Look at the ticket numbers in the bottom left. Identical except the last three digits, one being 099 and the other 100.
Mar 9 2014 3:27AM
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daannnnieel
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if terrorists got into the cockpit the only thing between it flying and going down is moving one wheel...
Mar 9 2014 4:31AM
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Ribss.
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Joystick*
Mar 9 2014 4:34AM
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FerrisBueller
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terrorism or aliens for sure
Mar 9 2014 4:53AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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alien terrorists...terroliens...terliens...alienists..allorists?
Mar 9 2014 5:09AM
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Shredsterr
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Mar 9 2014 5:21AM
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Ribss.
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I'm failing to see the humor in this...
Mar 9 2014 5:41AM
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extravert
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Definitely suspicious, but could just be illegal immigration or something similar.
Mar 9 2014 7:38AM
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jibbpeter
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On some undisclosed location right now.
Mar 9 2014 11:24AM
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