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Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people
Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane with 239 aboard enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The airline said in a statement early Saturday it was attempting to locate the Boeing 777 after it lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2:40 a.m. It was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported the plane was lost in airspace controlled by Vietnam, and did not make contact with Chinese air traffic controllers. The plane is carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members. The airline said it is working with authorities to locate the plane. Boeing said on its Twitter account it is monitoring the situation, and "our thoughts are with everyone on board." http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03...ing-23-people/ Malaysian jet probe sharpens focus on passengers, crew as new clues emerge http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03...-indian-ocean/ Last edited by ShowtimeSBMVP; 03-15-2014 at 09:02 AM.. |
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So, why don't black boxes send plane details via cloud (lulz), in real time, so that way they dont have to chase down the mother****ers?
I don't understand it at all. A centralized hub should be able to have ALL details of the plane's computer systems.
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That is a concern, but I wonder if it's much different than average. I don't know how easy it is to get passports if you're Chinese. You would hope that a gate person would wonder if a Chinese person has an Italian name. But hey, we live in an international world.
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I have been traveling all day and haven't kept up with the news. Have any terrorist organizations claimed credit for a bombing? perhaps the Uyghurs are quiet, but it seems like anybody else would have stepped up. it makes me wonder if it was some sort of natural accident.
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An interesting fact in this article regarding the two stolen passports:http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1
The two passengers who used the passports in question appear to have bought their tickets together. Now, that could just mean that they're people traveling illegally and that they both bought stolen passports together, but it's nonetheless interesting even if it has nothing to do with terrorism.
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I don't think it's terribly uncommon in SE Asia for stolen passports to be used by migrant workers.
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And I second the earlier poster who can't understand why they don't have self-contained black boxes that transmit in real-time. Heck, how expensive would it be to install cameras on the wings, stabilizer, cockpit, and fuselage? Even if it isn't accessible to the public in real-time for privacy reasons, there could certainly be some repository you could database it to I would think. If so we'd have a pretty good idea what happened, where it happened, and if there were survivors in the first few minutes at a cost of what? $1,000? Even if it was 10x that amount per year it could prevent another coordinated attack and/or help make planes safer for about $1 a ticket. I'd pay it. |
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Then where the hell is everything?
There are 40 planes and 24 ships looking and nothing.
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Could be terrorist or illegals.
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The oil slick was found not to be from an aircraft.
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Where is all the debris. It won't all sink.
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