Possible bad news for a B777 [Malaysian MH370]

[dannyboy]

As I'm flying long haul on Wednesday I think I'll give that a miss....I'm a shit flyer at the best of times

I'm flying long haul next Tuesday . Across the Atlantic and with air France !
And I've seen that documentary

 

[The Wizard]

I'm flying long haul next Tuesday . Across the Atlantic and with air France !
And I've seen that documentary

Just remember, the odds of being killed in a plane crash is 11 Million to 1. Planes in this day and age are extremely safe.

 

[dannyboy]

there also another stat which says something along the lines of . if you travel 24 hours a day 365 days a year on random planes in random parts of the world how long will it take before you crash . I think its about 24 years or something

 

[cloud]

Interesting tweet from Interpol:

INTERPOL ‏@INTERPOL_HQ · 59m
Inclined to believe that we are moving towards a human smuggling issue and not necessarily #terrorism. #MH370

 

[piersa]

Just remember, the odds of being killed in a plane crash is 11 Million to 1. Planes in this day and age are extremely safe.

14 million to 1 to win the lottery and I won that. Never flying again.

 

[carlzeiss]

BBC news reporting that 2 of the passengers on board with stolen passports were of Iranian nationality

 

[Paris]

14 million to 1 to win the lottery and I won that. Never flying again.

Has anyone ever told you you've got the most beautiful eyes?

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

BBC news reporting that 2 of the passengers on board with stolen passports were of Iranian nationality

Means nothing, 1 of them was flying onwards from Beijing to Germany, to migrate there where their mother lives.

Nothing terrorist at all, which rules something else out making it even more a mystery.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Breaking news - the airline changed course and turned west

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26527439#TWEET1068639

 

[cloud]

Nobody seems to have mentioned that Freescale Technology is involved in stealth technology and Electronic Counter Measure:

"New electronic weapons allow jamming, blinding, deafening and more, so that a plane could possibly vanish from radar detection and security systems would not be activated. Basic radar Electronic Counter-Measure strategies used in electronic warfare (EW) are: 1) radar interference, 2) target modifications, and 3) changing electrical properties of air."

With 20 Freescale employees inside the plane, could they have made it "vanish" from inside the plane itself?

http://beforeitsnews.com/events/201...aysia-plane-24-suspects-on-board-2432744.html

 

[nwgull]

Just remember, the odds of being killed in a plane crash is 11 Million to 1. Planes in this day and age are extremely safe.

Is that per flight? Sounds about right as I know that there are around 1 million flights by large commercial planes each year, and incidents like this happen no more than once in every 5-10 years.

To make the nervous flyers feel better: you're more likely to die driving to the Amex later.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Nobody seems to have mentioned that Freescale Technology is involved in stealth technology and Electronic Counter Measure:

"New electronic weapons allow jamming, blinding, deafening and more, so that a plane could possibly vanish from radar detection and security systems would not be activated. Basic radar Electronic Counter-Measure strategies used in electronic warfare (EW) are: 1) radar interference, 2) target modifications, and 3) changing electrical properties of air."

With 20 Freescale employees inside the plane, could they have made it "vanish" from inside the plane itself?

http://beforeitsnews.com/events/201...aysia-plane-24-suspects-on-board-2432744.html

Are you saying that this is some sort of airborn Philapdelphia Experiment?

 

[Albumen]

Is that per flight? Sounds about right as I know that there are around 1 million flights by large commercial planes each year, and incidents like this happen no more than once in every 5-10 years.

To make the nervous flyers feel better: you're more likely to die driving to the Amex later.

 

[cloud]

Are you saying that this is some sort of airborn Philapdelphia Experiment?

I had to google that, but who knows ... with China involved I wouldn't rule anything out.

 

[The Wizard]

Is that per flight? Sounds about right as I know that there are around 1 million flights by large commercial planes each year, and incidents like this happen no more than once in every 5-10 years.

To make the nervous flyers feel better: you're more likely to die driving to the Amex later.

I would assume so. But given that when crashes do happen, hundreds of people can perish at once I would think an 11,000,000/1 is probably under estimating just how unlikely you are to be involved in a fatal plane crash. Statistics mean nothing anyway, because occurrences are random but Air travel is extremely safe, by far the safest form of transport. (YES, that tired old fact again)

With regards to this situation, the longer it goes the more bizzare this gets. The ocean in the area they are searching is relatively shallow compared to other oceans so the fact no trace has been found still is difficult to understand, hopefully for the relatives sake I hope there is news soon. News the plane turned back west as well confuses matters even more.

 

[Triggaaar]

 

[Bozza]

I am fascinated by this news story.

Other than Dennis Bergkamp, most of us travel by air from time to time, and the thought of a large well-populated commercial jet disappearing mid-flight for days on end is quite astounding.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I worked for the CCA and was there at the time of the Concorde crash and 9-11

This incident is becoming a quite unusual case.
If the aircraft had broken up in the air - which fits with vanishing from radar report - there will be debris spread far and wide [the PanAm / Lockerbie also broke up and was scattered over a wide area - fortunately not over the sea]. If it were over the sea, there will be a lot of debris and wreckage that would float - I'm stunned that in 4 days searching, they have found absolutely nothing.

Even if they had hit the water in one piece, as the Air France incident did, the impact would also cause debris and wreckage. If they did a Hudson River landing, some survivors should have escaped.

Quite a mystery ....

 

[tip top]

Blimey..... seven pages and no sign of the goon squad yet?

Perhaps hybrid x and the truth are in a meeting as we speak.

 

[Triggaaar]

If they did a Hudson River landing, some survivors should have escaped.

What if terrorists landed them gently in the sea, and then kept everyone on board as the plane gently sank?