re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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Iranians

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probably not terrorists

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Does not compute.

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Wait, where's this?

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A few days back a few along the Malaysian coast saw the lights of a plane flying very low and in a direction that was not normal for that time of night.

These planes are designed with beacons that will go off, regardless if the plane has no power.

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Adding another wrinkle to the case, the Wall Street Journal reports that airliners "such as the Malaysian jet also carry emergency beacons to transmit the aircraft's location in the event of a mishap so that rescue teams can reach the site."


These beacons, called emergency locator devices, are activated by impact on land or water, along with other emergency communications equipment. Malaysia's aviation regulator said no signals were received from flight MH370's beacon.

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Realistically we do though.

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I disagree. I don't realistically know that until they find some debris.

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Still cant rule out aliens or J. J. Abrams

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Probably just a viral marketing campaign for the new "24". I bet Keifer Southerland emerges from the plane first when it is "found".

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Is this supposed to justify thinking a plane is incapable of gliding? because it doesn't.

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No, it glides, but not very far because of it's weight, especially loaded with fuel.

And, this plane supposedly made turns which would significantly cut it's gliding capabilities. Hence the reason you hear a plane power up to make turns if they intend to hold their height.

I'm not disagreeing with you saying it can glide, but that would assume a pilot is doing the "gliding" and if so, why not use procedures to alert others to the planes trouble?

there is a very good chance that fricker is in a hangar somewhere. i'm not ruling it out by any means.

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But if he's going to crash it, why not just do it from 35,000 feet instead of 3,000 feet that eyewitness reports now say they saw a plane flying at?

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This if I wanted to crash a plane, I would put it into a flat spin or an inverted dive. Not glide down to the water.

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No, it glides, but not very far because of it's weight, especially loaded with fuel.

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100-120 miles is pretty damn far, and a far cry from not at all, which is my only point.

Like I said, I don't understand why situations like this seem to remove people's common sense. Common sense says d'uh a plan can glide because they are designed to do that. Then something like this happens and people say things like "planes that big can't glide."

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there is a very good chance that fricker is in a hangar somewhere.

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No there isn't.