Missing Malaysian Airline flight.

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SECOND

Monday, March 10, 2014 5:59 PM

There is precedent for a modern jetliner to fall from the sky while "in the cruise" and lay hidden for months. On June 1, 2009, Air France flight 447 was en route from Rio De Janeiro to Paris' Charles de Gaulle International Airport when communications ended suddenly from the Airbus A330, another state-of-the-art aircraft. www.cnn.com/2012/07/05/world/europe/france-air-crash-report/index.html

When ice crystals blocked the plane's pitot tubes, which are part of a system used to determine air speed, the autopilot disconnected and the pilots did not correctly react to what was happening. Better that River is Serenity's pilot than Mal. Who thinks Mal would remember what is in the technical manual? Or have read it, even?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

REAVERFAN

Monday, March 10, 2014 6:11 PM

“777 crash confirms jihadists turning to make trouble for China. Chance for US to make common cause, befriend China while Russia bullies.” - tweet from who?

Rupert Murdoch.

No facts yet, but plenty of spin.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Monday, March 10, 2014 10:46 PM

Terrorists are going to attack Indonesia, which has a very large Islamic population? Or China, with its totalitarianism and militarism? Those are 2 nations you wouldn't want to antagonize, especially if you're Islamic or anti-USA. Would tend to drive both of them back toward pro-West, pro-USA. And piss the Chinese off, who wouldn't be shy about whacking you back.

SO that would seem like a loser idea, strategically, from a terrorist POV.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:57 AM

Day 3, still no sign of missing plane.

‘Iranian man booked tickets for pair who used stolen passports on MH370'
Travel agent says ‘Mr Ali’ bought seats on missing Malaysian plane for the two men, Financial Times reports

'Iranian man booked tickets for pair who used stolen passports on MH370' | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-man-booked-tickets-for-pair-who-u
sed-stolen-passports-on-mh370/#ixzz2vayECd30

Still no sign that it was terrorism, though. Tragic, regardless.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

WHOZIT

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:20 AM

It's not the 1st time a really big plane has disappeared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Missing_aircraft

OONJERAH

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:26 AM

Why so few clues about missing Malaysia flight?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/opinion/palmer-malaysia-aircraft-air-fra
nce/

"The Air France [477] flight's string of events was precipitated by
onboard faults that were automatically transmitted to the airline's
headquarters during its final minutes. While they lacked any flight
parameters, these maintenance fault messages gave key clues,
though not a definitive cause of that accident, before any wreckage
was found.

"Flight data recorders are key ...

"Flight data recorders contain data from more than 1,000 aircraft
parameters, including altitude, vertical speed, airspeed, heading,
control positions and parameters of the engines and most of the
aircraft's onboard systems ...

"Once the wreckage is located, an examination of the debris and its
distribution will tell investigators if the airplane was intact upon impact
and the angle at which it hit.

... "In the meantime, speculation is often inaccurate and unproductive."

WoW! There's so much they can figure out by data transmisson. Amazing!
I don't like the "Once the wreckage is located" line.
I simply prefer a highjack for better chance of passengers' survival.

One Thing to ask: Is any of this flight recorder data transmitted to the
airport continuously during flight? If so, wouldn't they know exactly
when the plane stopped flying?

"Palmer: Based on plane's last position, the search area is extremely large."

Means: They have a Last Position.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:27 AM

Most 'missing' aircraft had a passenger list in the single digits.

None had anywhere near the 239 who are missing since last Friday.

The last time a plane with over 100 passengers went missing was 1962, over the pacific.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:33 AM

The plane must have flown through a temporal rift. The only question is will the people be gobbled up by the Langoliers, or will they be smart enough to figure out how to get back to the present. If so, the plane could appear at any moment.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:43 AM

Never sat through that movie long enough to know what in the hell a Langolier was.

Wish there was a Gilligan's Island ending to this story, but real life don't work that way.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Never sat through that movie long enough to know what in the hell a Langolier was.

Well if you don't like that scenario, then another possibility is that Louise Baltimore snatched the plane and sent it to the future right before it would have crashed. "Coventry, send The Gate!"

Quote:
Wish there was a Gilligan's Island ending to this story, but real life don't work that way.

Sometimes it does. Life or death can be decided by inches or seconds, and miracles occur all the time.

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