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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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fujarome
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I've been reading that the whole passport thing isn't entirely uncommon in that area of the world. It is suspicious though.

Also been reading that supposedly it was picked up by a military radar traveling in the opposite direction, as if they had turned around for some reason
Mar 9 2014 2:57PM
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DERS.
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Mar 9 2014 3:04PM
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qazwsxedc34
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Passport theft is more common than you would think. 10 fraudulent passports were recovered
when an Air India plane crashed in Mangalore in 2010 en route from Dubai. !58 people perished.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26503141
Mar 9 2014 4:45PM
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Jon_Taffer
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Are you fucking retarded?
Mar 9 2014 5:12PM
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7springsprod
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I'm extremely interested in how this all is going to be explained. It's really weird how this happened. Whatever happened, it happened quick though..
Mar 9 2014 5:58PM
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Ribss.
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Same, I cant believe they are expanding the search to the other side of Malaysia to the Straits of Malacca, what the fuck? Do they think the plane turned around and flew over the whole country unnoticed? Wheres the wreckage? Why no distress signal? It's a widebody passenger jet, it doesn't just disappear.
Mar 9 2014 6:33PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i don't understand how this thing is missing? doesn't the black box emit a signal? and isn't the box made of adamantium?
Mar 9 2014 6:39PM
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belden...
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They do seem to think that the plane may have turned around... Don't know about all the other stuff though
Mar 9 2014 6:39PM
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MACAQUE
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What if the plane has been "stolen"? Probably would be extremely hard to pull off, but cut all communications, turn it around, land it somewhere and boom, someone has a new plane.
Mar 9 2014 6:40PM
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El_Barto.
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I did this back in 97 and now i live in a 747
Mar 9 2014 6:42PM
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7springsprod
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Very Unlikely; Radar would still be able to identify the plane as a primary target. It's extremely hard to speculate the slightest thing though. This entire situation is extremely bizarre.
Mar 9 2014 6:43PM
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Ribss.
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Seems like you've been perusing a.net.
Mar 9 2014 7:49PM
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Bombogenesis
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In my amateur opinion I believe some type of explosive went off. Very sad.


There are a lot of sick mofos out there.
Mar 9 2014 10:05PM
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Ribss.
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I believe that some American agency said it had satellites monitoring the area and they neither recognized a flash bright enough or a temperature flare intense enough for there to have been explosives in play. Pure speculation, but I'm more for the theory that it was pilot error/or the flight crew was in on some terrorist act. You don't just go dark. I think the authorities are now hiding info.
Mar 10 2014 12:24AM
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fujarome
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This just gets more and more strange. Now supposedly some fishermen claim they saw a large commercial aircraft flying very low not far enough.

I mean shit...did someone steal the damn thing? Air France 447 crashed in the middle of the ocean and they found pieces within 2 days. This thing disappears over a busy channel, and going on 3 days there isn't a single sign of it?! Its frustrating and perplexing.
Mar 10 2014 12:37AM
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whoa-dere
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someone stole the plane! Lol
Mar 10 2014 12:39AM
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Ribss.
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After hearing that it truly makes me thing the two stolen passport's were used by trained hijackers that continued to turn off transponders and landed the plane somewhere/crashed it into the water far away from where they are looking. Maybe they rushed the flight deck? You know there are reports that a chinese terrorist group claimed responsibility and the chinese government are covering it up. I asked my room mate who is a chinese national about it a day and a half ago and he said in his broken english "yes, terrorist, fly down"
Mar 10 2014 12:48AM
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Dauminator
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Not if it is under water, it took them two years to find the air france one
Mar 10 2014 1:08AM
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7springsprod
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They can turn off everything they want in the plane. Radar will still identify it as a target, but it will not have the assigned code anymore or mode s code (denoting identity and destination essentially).

This whole situation is extremely strange and for the time being, I can only guess that the plane was blown up (no idea by who) or experienced some sort of extremely rapid depressurization which caused the plane to essentially disintegrate. As the plane was only 11 years old I believe? means it had limited reporting equipment that would have notified the airline or some sort of center if any technical errors were to arise autonomously ( I know this is the case for overseas flights over the Atlantic, though I am unsure of this for the particular airline and if the equipment would be mandatory for the flight under that route). The fact that the airline itself and nobody has any information that indicate something went wrong. The only assumption we can make is that it happened extremely abruptly.

Mar 10 2014 1:09AM
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Ribss.
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Flying low (as the fisherman said he saw) would discount radar, because radar is basically line of sight. This is assuming that actually happened with the fisherman. The plane was 11.8 years old. But yes, we can definitely assume something happened very abruptly.


Lots of assumptions.
Mar 10 2014 1:20AM
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7springsprod
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This incident has been in the back of my head all week andI'm so curious as to how it will play out..
Mar 10 2014 1:28AM
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SKI.ING
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Can't get it off my mind either. It's just so sad.
Mar 10 2014 2:38AM
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Ribss.
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I can't either, but I've let it suck up my whole weekend.
Mar 10 2014 3:09AM
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Bombogenesis
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But a crash would have created an explosion bright enough, right? I keep reading that experts are saying it likely "disintegrated in mid air" so how else could a jumbo jet vaporize in mid air?
Mar 10 2014 6:44AM
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feihlination
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i flew 4 times with malaysia airlines a few months back and there really wasnt anything alarming going on.

they were the best so far in handling delays (we missed our connecting flight late in the evening and got a nice 5-star suite in kuala lumpur), very organized and everything was pretty much as in every other company.

if you wanna fly with another carrier in SE asia, now THAT could be risky. malaysia airlines is legit.
Mar 10 2014 7:23AM
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B.Aussie
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So scary a plane can just disappear like that.
Mar 10 2014 7:38AM
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slav_slayer
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Mar 10 2014 8:20AM
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Jpurd
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earily similar... I mean it seems like it just disapeared.

If it was a crashing towards the water the pilot would have had time to make a distress call.

If it was an explosion, there is no way that it could have gone three days without one piece of wreckage.

The only other logical outcome is that either a terrorist/inside job knew how to turn off all tracking for the plane, however I am not even sure if you go completely stealth from all radar with a commercial jet liner. Incredibly mysterious.
Mar 10 2014 2:11PM
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esotericjive
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http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0
Mar 10 2014 2:19PM
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MuckMaestro
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Oceanic 815
Mar 10 2014 2:44PM
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RJ_Res
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So it's looking like they found the debris?
Mar 10 2014 2:54PM
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esotericjive
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There's some debate about whether or not its the flight we're looking for, also the Vietnamese coast guard was there and couldn't find anything
Mar 10 2014 2:55PM
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fujarome
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Yes, we all get the lost references. They cease being funny when you realize that almost 250 people are almost certainly dead from that plane.

But this is ns, where you can mock deaths unless it's a skier. Then you get banned
Mar 10 2014 3:17PM
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Ribss.
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Mar 10 2014 3:18PM
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SkiBum.
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I dont understand how a plane just goes missing. It just does not happen in todays day with all technology around.

Something fishy is going on.
Mar 10 2014 4:29PM
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skier_boy26
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Yea, considering the 777 program has over 18,000,000 flight hours, and this (presumably) would be the first in-air hull-loss of a 777, I think your fears are misdirected. Of course we still have no idea what caused it.

I'd say you should worry about her being in a taxi or on a scooter, or hell just driving around town at home, where the likelihood of injury/death is astronomically higher.
Mar 10 2014 4:41PM
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howlongcanausern
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/thread
Mar 10 2014 4:43PM
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shocker611
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did they figure anything else out about the stollen passports? This definitely seems like the most likely source considering they were 1 way tickets bought together to different destinations
Mar 10 2014 4:50PM
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EMH
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What if I told you that flying with stolen passports is way more common than it is thought to be?

What if I told you that the plane didn't signal anything before disappearing? Like emergency message for flying too low etc.

Such mystery. Many NS sherlock holmes. Wow.
Mar 10 2014 4:58PM
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El_Barto.
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you would be saying stuff you read in this thread
Mar 10 2014 5:03PM
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BMB
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read up kids
Mar 10 2014 5:08PM
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EMH
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Lol prob. the first time ever when I didn't read the thread throughoutly, just a few dozen comments.. My apologies
Mar 10 2014 5:09PM
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GayWolf420
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what news sources is everyone using? im trying to avoid mainstream ones like MSNBC, CNN, etc. i dont like how they cover things, really.
Mar 10 2014 5:12PM
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Ribss.
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Best source I found is a forum about commercial airliners, already past 2500 posts. They have some weird rule about keeping threads under 250 though so its 10 parts. I'd say 75% of the posts there are coming from well educated people on the matter.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6017041#menu127
Mar 10 2014 5:18PM
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El_Barto.
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Ive read a lot of that too...its good info
Mar 10 2014 5:59PM
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Ribss.
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It's the first place to find anything. Anyone else interested should check it out. This is the first time something like this has happened to a place of that size. It literally just disappeared without a trace.
Mar 11 2014 4:10AM
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Ribss.
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Yeah seriously. First time something like this has ever happened.
Mar 11 2014 4:11AM
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PKNeison
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Sucked down the Bermuda Triangle by the Illuminati
Mar 11 2014 4:40AM
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NinetyFour
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Mar 11 2014 8:12AM
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slav_slayer
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The plane was part of a secret Malaysian experiment involving space planes. the plane broke all radio contact with the ground and immediately started climbing at a high rate of speed. To avoid stalling rockets assited the last leg of the climb. The Boeing 777 is now in low earth orbit, that why it has "dissapeared"
Mar 11 2014 8:19AM
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