Those 3 minutes can be really life-changing, especially from sources like @andysassparade

Rip

Isn't that how KCNative sees himself?

I don't think any man thinks his thighs are that fat, but every woman does, so I'm not thinking so.

Perhaps it was global warming and assault rifles???

If it was a Cisco aircraft, I'm sure it would be being blamed on solar flairs...

If it was a Crisco aircraft it would be blamed on grease fires.

Some days I wonder if there's a difference between Cisco and Crisco!

A missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have turned back from its scheduled route before vanishing from radar screens, military officers said on Sunday, deepening the mystery surrounding the fate of the plane and the 239 people aboard.

More than 36 hours after the last contact with Flight MH370, officials said they were widening the search to cover vast swathes of sea around Malaysia and off Vietnam, and were investigating at least two passengers who may have been using false identity documents.

Despite dozens of military and civilians vessels and aircraft criss-crossing waters to the east and west of Malaysia, no wreckage has been found, although oil slicks have been reported in the sea south of Vietnam.

“What we have done is actually look into the recording on the radar that we have and we realized there is a possibility the aircraft did make a turnback,” Rodzali Daud, the Royal Malaysian Air Force chief, told reporters at a news conference.

There were no reports of bad weather and no sign of why the Boeing 777-200ER disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing early on Saturday.

European officials said it appeared two people on board were using stolen passports and Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said authorities were also checking the identities of two other passengers.

Absolutely but he doesn't have Robert Newhouse thighs like Godzilla :p

Maybe it's the Kuala Lumpur Triangle.

Found this....sounds pretty intelligent


One of the questions I’ve been asked repeatedly since word emerged that a Malaysian Airlines Boeing BA -0.25% 777 had disappeared, is how can a modern airliner flying at 35,000 feet suddenly lose all contact? First, there needs to be an understanding of the type of contact that an airliner in flight typically has. Airline crews communicate with air traffic control both by verbal instructions over radios and through automatic transmissions from various aircraft systems, such as a transponder which relays information about the flight (e.g. altitude) to ground radar stations. The transponder information is then displayed on an air traffic controller’s screen as an alpha-numeric readout.

Crews also have the ability to communicate with their airline through discrete radio channels. There is usually at least one other back up communication system that allows communication between the ground stations and the flight crew. Other aircraft systems commonly used by many airlines also communicate with commercial services that monitor other parts of the aircraft, such as engines, and report that data back to the airline. This data is then used to monitor and improve aircraft system performance.

For all communication to suddenly cease without a distress signal usually indicates a catastrophic failure of the aircraft , not allowing time for the crew to communicate either by radio or through the aircraft transponder. Modern airliners have multiple radios for voice communication and the transponder can be used to send signals that indicate different problems with the aircraft (for example a discrete code for hijacking). A complete electrical failure is extremely unlikely because of redundancies in the system, especially the ram air turbine which uses the power of the wind generated by the aircraft’s motion in flight to generate electricity which would power critical navigation and communication systems, as well as flight controls. But even if the aircraft had a complete electrical failure, the aircraft could have continued to fly. If the aircraft was out of radar range when a failure occurred – but able to fly – it would eventually fly to an area with radar coverage and be picked up by air traffic control radar.

It is too early to speculate on what could have caused a catastrophic failure to the aircraft, if that is in fact what occurred.

The two stolen passports were an "aha" moment for me (as in: it's the terrorists!), but I've since read that at present there are reportedly 39 MILLION stolen passports worldwide. There are probably a few on every flight, every day.

WTF

Vietnam Searchers Report Spotting Plane Debris
Officials Say They Found Piece of Door, Airplane Tail

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_e...MDAwODEwNDgyWj

Per honestchief's post, my bet is on a catastrophic breakup that occurred with no warning. The next question would be whether it was an accident or deliberate.

Now they say there were 4 people with invalid Passports onboard.