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Yes I assumed mother could be of different nationality but still travelling.

Can those of us who want to, remember to pray for all those involved. What a terrible thing to happen, no matter what the outcome of all of this is.

My cat went missing for a few days recently. Fortunately she returned, all well. But the waiting, even just waiting for a cat, was pretty bad. Lots of staring out of the window and wondering where she was and what had happened to her.

Or the children were travelling with a nanny of another nationality?

...To clarify. "Why would terrorists hijack a plane for future use instead of buying one out of the public eye". IYSWIM.

travis and living, it's not possible to open the aircraft doors during flight without depressurising (sp?) the cabin first. I suppose that's not impossible in theory, but it sounds like an implausible amount of hassle when presumably they have an easier means to kill people if that's their intention, given that they'd have managed to hijack the plane in the first place.

Sorry, what I meant was that I hope their mother and/or father was with them (they could have a different nationality from the kids I'm sure). I hate to think they were alone.

Re: the two flight paths, think of the satellite as the static leg of a drawing compass. The 'pencil' of the compass draws a circle around that 'leg'. They know something 'pinged' off the circle, but do not know where on the circle it pinged.

What they do know is that some parts of the circle can be ruled out, either because too far away to have been reached in that time, or because of overlap with radar/too close to last known position. That leaves two parts of a circle - the arcs - uneliminated.

Keep thinking about those threats of a dirty bomb. If the plane had been landed in Eastern euro/Asia where some of that stuff was .. Radioactive material.. even if plane shot down its a massive incident and danger to wherever underneath and in wind range. Praying they find it and passengers safe before anything happens.

You can fly as a UM as young as 5 with some airlines.

that is shocking!

The USA children have Chinese/Malaysian sounding surnames that were also the same surnames of others on board so I presume they were just born in the USA and actually were travelling with their parents.

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One comment that has made me ? and it may be completely innocuous - passenger stories on BBC News. The NZ who moved his family to Perth, Oz. On his way to a new job, he left personal effects at home for the children, saying to give them to them if something happened to him.

Heynonny thankyou for explaining I asked upthread
About the bling

I had heard there was 2 children on board, aged 2 and 4, but there are another 2 children who were in China with relatives and their parents were on board so they are possibly now orphans .

pickofthepops that is a truly scary thought. I had been envisaging a 9/11 scenario with the planes being used as missiles.... But the thought of a plane packed with biological/ chemical weapons is truly terrifying.

Jill I read that too and just thought it odd.

But not suspicious in any way just odd.

There was a quote on the Guardian site from a 15 year boy, whose parents were on board saying there is some hope for him now.
Poor boy.

I don't think it would be a terribly effective way of disseminating biological or chemical weapons. You need a crop sprayer for that (they don't survive explosions well). I'm not sure if it would be good for a dirty radiological bomb.

Jill - I read somewhere (fairly mainstream - either UK broadsheet/BBC/SkyNews) that the guy concerned works in the mining industry, in a situation in which he's not allowed to wear personal jewellery items. If this is true and his job is in itself a dangerous one, then his words would relate solely to his employment risks rather than be an ominous warning of the flight disappearance.

Of course it may all be a cover-up... But I'd imagine that there are more probable suspects.

having read the round up guardian article i think it is most likely that the plane was shot down by the military after it dissapeared for civilian systems and appeared on military - the military didn't just happen to be looking, they were presumably contactly the minute the airline knew something had gone wrong. they wouldn't then have just sat there and thought ooh i wonder what that's about whilst a rogue aircraft had turned and headed back towards them. it would have been responded to.

is it fear of announcing 'we shot a whole planeful of people out of the sky without securing communications to verify intent? or is it something/someone who was on board? maybe it's about not wanting whoever the orchestrators of the attack are to know what's going on? don't know. but that it was shot down seems the only sensible answer.

Jill, I think I read about the same guy a few days ago - did he leave a wedding ring and a watch, for his sons to have when they get married? I was all "Oo-er!" about that until I found out he'd been retired from active military service and had just moved house after their old one was destroyed not once, but twice, by earthquakes! Given he may well have had PTSD, exacerbated by the extremely bad luck to be hit by 2 earthquakes, he most likely was very nervous about going to work abroad. Probably no more than that.

Oh ok that explains it then Nonny