Missing MH370 thread cont...

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Old thread here

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How many of us are actually scared?
I am not.

I'm not scared either, but i live out in the sticks in northern England, anything that happens is highly unlikely to affect me personally

I think people are uneasy. Simply because we don't know what happened yet.

But imagine if another plane goes missing. Then another.

Fear and panic would be pretty widespread. Worldwide I would imagine. Perhaps that's the threat?

I don't think air piracy is a totally far-out suggestion. People have tried to ransom aircraft before (usually for political demands though).

However, if piracy's your thing, I would have thought that logistically it's an awful lot easier to deal with having hijacked a ship than a plane. With a plane you need access to a long enough runway in a friendly country with a hangar at your disposal. Then you need to feed and put all 200+ passengers somewhere - and negotiations can go on for months. Whereas with ships they can just be anchored off coast, and the crews are much smaller and are easier to control.

My guess is that it's political/terrorist related in some way.

If this happened again there would be a lot of fear and panic.

At the moment people generally think the plane crashed and that is awful but not that unusual. Its a risk most people understand and are willing to take. The authorities are treating it as an air crash after all.

If it did happen again in a fairly short space of time in the same circumstances it is the unknown cause of an unknown risk that will frighten people.

The governments, if they already don't know what has happened, will be more scared than the general public. And if they genuinely don't know, until the aircraft is found, they'll be in a panic.

Interesting about the final message. Wasn't there also the pilot afterwards who tried to communicate and got mumbling? So distorted deliberately maybe and to persuade that all was OK + buying time?

I'm not scared. Have to fly soon anyway albeit for an hour! I wouldn't let something like this put me off, that's just giving them what they want if it is designed to intimidate and create fear.

Feel v v :( for the passengers and families though.

I'm not scared but I'm creeped out. And if i lived in a big city or worked somewhere politically or internationally significant and I knew there was a threat against my country, I'd be bricking it.

Ok scared wasn't exactly right - I'm not scared for myself but worried what has happened to the passengers and what could happen to others if the plane is used as a weapon.

i'm not scared either in terms of 'this' - i am disturbed by what it could be used for by western governments though.

i would find an attempted terrorist attack less scary than western superpowers scrambling for global power having this to use as justification for further extending their powers.

Yes creeped out is the right expression. Gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it.

Thinking of upcoming world events tere is this big nuclear summit in the Hague in the next week or so. Obama et al will all be there. Right next door to my old work. The security was already bad enough and I dread to think what it will be like now.

It won't stop me getting on a flight tomorrow. Although admittedly I'm flying within Europe. I'm no more worried about getting on a plane than usual (don't much like flying, but accept I have to do it).

Really Livingzuid? Do you think it will make a difference to security procedures that far away from where the aircraft might be?

I've got a question. Assuming the plane is at the bottom of the Indian ocean . How much will we actually be able to tell from the wreckage, the black box, etc? Will we, for example, be able to tell whether the plane was hijacked?

Goldie, your posts have been awesome btw, thanks for taking the time to help us all understand it. You write very clearly and explain things incredibly well, makes all the difference

Well why wouldn't it? You have all the world leaders in one place, a plane goes missing with no explanation and it was done deliberately? Would you want to take that chance that just possibly it might be related?

I am not saying it is related, I am saying the security will be even worse. No one is allowed in the area for 3 days as it is, and an old colleague said they were now reviewing it in light of this incident.

The black box contains cockpit voice recordings so I would think in most hijack scenarios they would reveal what happened.

I'm uncomfortable - I gave family on holiday in the FE at the mo and will be happier when they are back in the UK.

I feel terrible for the families and friends of those missing.

"They disappeared from Malaysia's aviation radar "

Not sure what this means??

Gave. No iPad. Have

tunip thank you for clarifying re black box. Wasn't sure if it recorded voice or just data eg flightpath etc.

Those worried about the plane being landed to be used for something else at a later date, do you not think something like this would have been an easier way to do it? And anyway, whatever did happen to the plane in the link?

Why would someone stealing it for a future act have to have this particular 777, rather than a much easier to acquire smaller commercial boeing?

Won't stop me flying, I flew cuba to london this week. May I just add cuba to the list of countries that dont check very well on departure - i set the bleeper off and wasnt so much as frisked!