re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Posted by RebelOP

Misty Mountain Top

Member since Jun 2013

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:03 pm to tLSU

Well next time make it more clear for these "non pilots" over here. Geeze.

Posted by medtiger

Member since Sep 2003

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:10 pm to RebelOP

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@ThePlayoffGuru: Re: Missing Malaysian Airlines plane - Chinese-language press reporting wreckage found in sea southwest of Vietnam.

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Posted by siliconvalleytiger

Bay Area, CA

Member since Apr 2004

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:12 pm to medtiger

Damn it!

Posted by East Coast Band

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:12 pm to medtiger

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Chinese-language press

I'll wait for a tad more reliable source.

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Posted by siliconvalleytiger

Bay Area, CA

Member since Apr 2004

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:14 pm to East Coast Band

I was holding out hope for a water landing or something. I've traveled a lot and it's just so hard to fathom.

Posted by medtiger

Member since Sep 2003

21670 posts

Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:15 pm to East Coast Band

Yea, I'm only seeing that one report, and it's coming from a college football twitter account, so I'll wait until something a little more mainstream reports it as well. But I don't see much of a chance of this ending well.

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Posted by Walking the Earth

Member since Feb 2013

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:16 pm to medtiger

Yeah, at this point it's a little unrealistic to think the plane's communications went down, they landed safely and just haven't gotten around to borrowing a phone somewhere to call in.

Posted by medtiger

Member since Sep 2003

21670 posts

Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:19 pm to Walking the Earth

There's no chance an aircraft that size made a safe landing somewhere and it wasn't noticed by people on the ground unless it was a water landing.

Posted by MikeyFL

Las Vegas, NV

Member since Sep 2010

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:19 pm to Da Sheik

So, after the terrorist Kunming knife attack in China, what do you all think are the odds that this is terrorist related too?

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Posted by BeerCity

Asheville, North Carolina

Member since Nov 2013

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:20 pm to MikeyFL

UFO related.

Posted by SaltyMcKracker

Member since Sep 2011

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:21 pm to MikeyFL

Going by the odds, very low. It is a greater chance that something would fail mechanically leading to an accident than terrorism

Posted by medtiger

Member since Sep 2003

21670 posts

Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:23 pm to SaltyMcKracker

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Going by the odds, very low. It is a greater chance that something would fail mechanically leading to an accident than terrorism

I agree. More likely to be an Air France type situation than terrorism.

Posted by SM6

Georgia

Member since Jul 2008

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:34 pm to medtiger

You mean pilot error?

Also, Those flightaware graphs are estimates when they get outside of their reliable radar coverage, not ANY radar coverage, basically EU, Arabian Peninsula, Oz and of course USA. outside of that they extrapolate the flight plan, speed and altitude on posted course.

Posted by TigerLicks

Dallas, TX

Member since Oct 2003

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 11:03 pm to SM6

?@YahooNews 10m
Vietnamese navy admiral confirms to media that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has crashed into ocean

Posted by WylieTiger

Member since Nov 2006

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 11:05 pm to ShyftingTiger91

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I was on a plane that had a very rough landing arriving into Atlanta once. Came down really hard and immediately had to pull up to take another pass. Scared the shite out of everyone on board. Death always feel so close when flying.

I was on one to ATL a few years ago that did the same thing. If it was the same one, I was scared shitless!

Posted by tigers win2

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Posted on 3/7/14 at 11:10 pm to WylieTiger

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quote: I was on a plane that had a very rough landing arriving into Atlanta once. Came down really hard and immediately had to pull up to take another pass. Scared the shite out of everyone on board. Death always feel so close when flying.

Happened to me coming into New Orleans. After the chaos and engines screaming as pilot pulled up to circle around , he announced to passengers that a tail wind had pushed us too far down runway. Had he landed, we would have ran into terminal building because he couldn't stop it in such a short distance.

A way steeper climb and hard bank than I would have ever thought possible in a large plane.

This post was edited on 3/7/14 at 11:11 pm