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

(the 2200 miles map is from where it dropped off the radar, not after it had turned back to the W)

Very sad seeing the news yesterday about the dad who has died from the stress caused by his son being a passenger on flight MH370.

I don't think it was an act of terror as someone would have claimed it by now.

So a highjack by the pilots then? How much do people know about them?

That is what is bothering me room it is almost too convenient. It could be seen as a window of opportunity.

You could say it was coincidence but then there's that saying that there are no coincidences and that there is a purpose to each act no matter how "random" it may seem.

Can somebody help me with Tomnod? I just started using it, is this something worth tagging or is an oil rig or something else normal? Thanks!

So do the RR engines transmit data back to RR every 30 mins? And did they continue to do this for 4 hours after the last communication with the pilots? Or did they not? This seems to be a very pertinent question. As far as I can understand the Malaysian officials are saying the last engine data was received at 01.07 and they lost contact the pilots at 01.30 so can we deduce that when the next engine info was due something had already happened to the plane? Am I totally over-simplying this?

I thought that radius was four hours flying? I can't see it being likely to involve north Korea, but it is a mystery and they're a mysterious state.

My friend saw that and tagged it. She thought it looked possibly like luggage. or then again could be a cargo ship.
Anything unusual that isn't clearly a ship or oil rig (tend to have H on them) I would tag as other.

Think I have spent far too long on there.

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26559627

But why is releasing those images a mistake? I guess because they can't confirm it? One thing is for sure, the Malaysian government do not have control over the information being released. It is coming across as a shambles.

Oh sorry missed a page ignore last post.

Thanks Jjuice

This is awful, the plane could be anywhere, if it went down in one piece would there even be any debris? Or would it have blown to pieces on impact?

The thing that I cannot get my head around is that the pilots signed off good night with the Malaysian air traffic control to be passed overt Vietnam. Three minutes later, the Vietnamese said they had no contact. How is it possible that they lost contact and a catastrophe happened in those 3 minutes and during the handover. It just seems too much of a coincidence. As if it was planned that way. Whether it has crashed or whatever, this is bizarre to me.

I think it's suspicious that it disappeared during the crossover period, too. It may be just an unhappy coincidence but it seems to me that if you were going to hijack a plane, that would be a good time to do it. But if it crashed in those 3 minutes due to an unexpected catastrophe, you'd think something would have been found by now as there's only so far it could have gone.
It's all so sad, whatever's happened

If the plane have suffered from massive decompresion and everyone on board was unconscious, how far could it have flown on autopilot? I know this happened to a commercial plane before and it flew for quite some time before crashing (I can't remember the details, possibly in the late 90s and it crashed in or just off the US, I think). I wonder if that would account for the buring object that was seen by an oil rig worker, if indeed that story is true. TBH if it has crashed I hope it was something like that because at least everyone on board would not have been aware of what was happening.

Theoretically it would fly until the fuel ran out, or it crashed into something. I imagine if it had just kept flying until the fuel ran out it would have been picked up on radar, as opposed to trying to avoid radar. But it would depend on what was damaged in the catastrophic event and whether the plane could continue on it's autopilot and course ( which it obviously didn't.) or whether wing, engine, tail or electronic systems were put out causing it to veer off course. Even when the location of the plane is discovered it could take many months for them to find out what happened, years even. Finding the plane/wreckage will only be the beginning of it.

In theory, it would fly until the fuel ran out. But it would need to have function electronics to be able to do so, and therefore the automated transmissions from plane to ground would continue. Which they didn't.

I suppose it's possible that there was a specific fault that would knock out the automated comms at the same time as a fault causing hypoxia but without interfering with other systems that keep the plane in flight. But from this morning's press conference, they are tending to rule that out.

The haze here is so bad right now that they won't be finding anything on the west coast of Malaysia. The whole country s feeling very strange. No water, no air, no plane.

Somebody knows what happened - they're just not letting on.

Watching this on the news, 6 days and they still have absolutely no idea what's gone on.

This is a mystery.

^^ Loopy- did you hear the theory that the whole MH370 thing is a diversion away from the Anwar case? Plus the pics of the Bomohs at KLIA doing a spell to bring the plane back?

I've been here 10 years and I have never had such a bizarre week. I sit open mouthed watching the news and seeing what crap can come out next - along with have to flush my toilet with a bucket and smoke alrams going off with the amount of smoke in the air.

My dh hit the nail on the head when he said the malaysian gov are full of bullshit and they normal get away with it because only the (highly controlled) local press ever listen. Now the whole world have their eyes on Malaysia and panic mode is an understatment

I imagine if it had just kept flying until the fuel ran out it would have been picked up on radar, as opposed to trying to avoid radar.

In theory, it would fly until the fuel ran out. But it would need to have function electronics to be able to do so, and therefore the automated transmissions from plane to ground would continue. Which they didn't.

This is what I thought. Just trying to think out possibilities in my head that are a little less scary than what is more likely, I guess.

Vietnam are now searching 'large areas of land' according to the Mirror, via the New Strait Times.

It's not like you can easily hide a 777 either. Anyone know what the minimum runway requirement is?