Missing Malaysia Air plane

[KenAdams]

It's so sad. They still haven't found anything, but thinks it's crashed into the sea.

For anyone that hasn't heard

That DM piece says the engines did transmit data to Rolls Royce & the plane flew for another 4 hours/2200 miles

Guardian is reporting the same

\link{https://mobile.twitter.com/TroyWSJ/status/444026875241697280/photo/1?screen_name=TroyWSJ\map showing areas covered within 2200 miles}

If it flew for that long...then it could be almost anywhere. How absolutely terrifying. I have images of the people all sat somewhere really remote. Is anyone good enough at geography to say where in the world it could have flown to in that time? 4 hours is a long time...in any direction.

Cross posts Smile do you know what that bit of land is in the bottom right?

It's Australia!

But it wouldn't fly in to Oz....their radars would pick it up immediately. I wonder if it's in Papua New Guinea.

There are plenty of empty place to the N on that map

& these quotes from the Sydney paper are stunning

"The disappearance is officially not an accident and all information about this is strictly handled by investigators,” a Rolls-Royce executive is reported to have said.

Also quoted was a Boeing executive who declined to comment except to say: "We've got to stand back from the front line of the information."

& nobody's radar would pick it up if not transmitting signals?

but how on earth could they keep 250 passengers fed and watered and calm for 6 days whilst they decide what to do with the plane?

This is just getting more and more bizarre. I don't know what to think anymore. I can't imagine what the relatives are going through.

Well keeping the passengers fed and watered in a hijacking wouldn't be a priority would it? Keeping them alive wouldn't even be a priority.

Trout my thoughts exactly. They wanted the plane...not the passengers.

There was a spate of planes being hijacked into desert areas in the 70s. Passengers were definitely not a priority

The map thing which someone linked to below has been removed from Twitter. I've saved it.

It was NicestSmile who shared the original map from someone's Twitter...I shared it on FB and then after a few people had commented on it on my page, it suddenly went!

There are plenty of little islands within that map, I don't know if they are all inhabited or not. It could almost be anyway.

Yes Ken and I bet loads of them are covered in forest or jungle or whatever they have in that part of the world!

That's what I was thinking too trout :(

I'm assuming that since it went off the military's radar when it went over the sea that there must be lots of area over the waters that arnt covered by any military radar? (I'm not an expert, just guessing) so maybe they knew a specific route to take that was hard to track? Do all countries have radar to tell when an aircraft enters their airspace? I have no idea. Just the questions I'm asking myself - it's so perplexing.

If someone has hijacked them why haven't they come forward and made their demands known, which is what would usually happen in hijacking?

That's true ken, could be an island somewhere remote (although it would need a large flat area for landing if it did land safely?)

The map still shows on @troywsj's page

It's just the link in the tweet that isn't working

I wondered that too muffin. Maybe they just want the plane?

Very strange why they seem to be removing this image from fb and twitter feeds?? Do they know more?

Can this get anymore strange?

God knows what the families are going through

HmmKay I think it would be far easier to enter somewhere like Papua New Guinea and not be challenged whereas you'd not get within a hundred miles of Oz without the military wanting to know what you were about. Saying that though there are US and UK military stations all over the bloody world!

Actually just checked and the Aussies have a base on PNG so maybe that would be noticed too!