re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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I believe the plane was shot down.

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Other civilian planes that were accidentally shot down, were all in areas where there were a lot of airspace tensions, with lots of people jumpily on the lookout for such things, and were at least somewhat easy to explain away in this regard.

I don't understand, where this plane was flying, who would have been holding an itchy trigger finger to an anti aircraft missile and why?

Is the country of Malaysia really that alert and ready for invasions of its airspace?

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"We have an indication the plane went down in the Indian Ocean," the senior official said.

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Maybe Boeing did hand off those engine reports and it actually included location data; I remember reading it's a possibility to be included in the reporting. As far as that published map with that range circle, it is pretty weird that the range lines up perfectly with Beijing. Did people actually check the runway in Beijing? lol

If we believe this scenario, then the press conference the Malaysians held 6 hours ago is complete bullshite.

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Other civilian planes that were accidentally shot down, were all in areas where there were a lot of airspace tensions, with lots of people jumpily on the lookout for such things, and were at least somewhat easy to explain away in this regard.

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that's a very good point, but has a commerical airliner been shot down since 9/11?... the built in excuse would seem to be 'we were preventing a highjacked plane from becoming a flying bomb'

That wouldn't be surprising. All eyes are on them, and they're dropping a monster shite.

If this cant find it, it aint there.

""" The US Navy deployed a P-3C Orion aircraft from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to the search area last Sunday.

The 116 foot long P-3C is equipped with a quartet of 4,600 shp Allison T56-A-14 turboprop engines which provide a cruising speed of 377 mph with a range of 2,380 nautical miles. This will allow the P-3C to cover 1,500 square miles every hour.

It also employs a Raytheon synthetic apature search radar system, Advanced Imaging Multispectral Sensor, sonobuoy receivers and acousticc processors for detecting passing subs, and a host of other long-range sensor suites.

There is so much surveillance gear packed aboard this plane, it requires a crew of 11 airmen to operate.

Lot of people gonna look foolish when they find this thing in the water.

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""" The US Navy deployed a P-3C Orion aircraft from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to the search area last Sunday.

The 116 foot long P-3C is equipped with a quartet of 4,600 shp Allison T56-A-14 turboprop engines which provide a cruising speed of 377 mph with a range of 2,380 nautical miles. This will allow the P-3C to cover 1,500 square miles every hour.

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that's a shite ton of area that it can cover

if the P3 can't find it, I don't think anyone will.

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Lot of people gonna look foolish when they find this thing in the water.

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Too late - there's going to be conspiracy theory forever even if it is found in the water. There will be talk of planted evidence, etc.

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Lot of people gonna look foolish when they find this thing in the water.

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the malaysian govt is looking pretty bad right now