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Missing plane..
TwoDogs
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I know it is a big dad-burn ocean...but where is that dang plane?
It is likely splashed I think.
The flight simulator found in the pilots house bugs me.
24-72 hours of satellite clues..yet no confirmation.
What do you think?
Splashed...on the ground somewhere..
Media has gone kinda quite.
It is likely splashed I think.
The flight simulator found in the pilots house bugs me.
24-72 hours of satellite clues..yet no confirmation.
What do you think?
Splashed...on the ground somewhere..
Media has gone kinda quite.
Comments
I stand by my bold assessment of 2 weeks ago. They wanted to hit twin towers Kuala Lampur and they turned the plane, missed Kuala Lampur, and flew off into the ocean.
Seriously, a terrible thing. All those people . . . and the families left behind just not knowing.
Strangely no reputable news source will confirm that, so I'm going to presume it's still in the air
This story is endlessly fascinating to me.
The two Iranians on board, that the ones that bothers me!
One thing is very clear: It is possible today, even with the most advanced technolgy, to simply disappear. 70 years after the fact no one has found those five TBM torpedo bombers from Flight 19 and they disappeared in airspace (The Bermuda Triange if you like to imagine that it exists) a fraction of the size the current search has covered. I suppose it is remotely possible that no one will find this missing aircraft either.
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At this point, my prediction is simple: It will never be found and we'll never know what happened to it. Or it'll be found years from now in the jungle quite near its originally intended flight path - as I've said all along.
I think some of you wise azzes ought to write movie scripts.
At this point, my prediction is simple: It will never be found and we'll never know what happened to it. Or it'll be found years from now in the jungle quite near its originally intended flight path - as I've said all along.
They just found it in the Indian Ocean.............[;)]
Way off its flight path.
They have a few fuzzy satellite radar images of "stuff" in the ocean. Not one piece of debris has been found, much less positively identified. Only an idiot would proclaim the search/mystery is over.
...found years from now in the jungle quite near its originally intended flight path - as I've said all along.
Radar data shows it's last known location as headed southwest over the southern Indian Ocean where it would have had insufficient fuel to safely land anywhere.
Facts lead to the conclusion that it went down at sea somewhere out there in the opposite direction of it's planned flight path. All that's left to confirm it's loss is locating wreckage.
At this point the only mystery is why.
Stop accepting every media report as fact. Lord knows you clowns don't accept any other official statement. In fact you automatically dismiss any official comment as a lie or a conspiracy. Why do you believe every half-assed report on this?
I think some of you wise azzes ought to write movie scripts.
At this point, my prediction is simple: It will never be found and we'll never know what happened to it. Or it'll be found years from now in the jungle quite near its originally intended flight path - as I've said all along.
Oh come on, don't get too critical of us, after all this is a forum for us to logon, shoot the bull, contact friends, make some more, a gain more knowledge about the one thing that binds us all together, GUNS. If its more knowledge you want, scientific forums might be more your style.:-)
Seriously though...I try to be the voice of reason of most matters; this one especially. As far as I can determine, none of the oft-repeated "facts" in this disappearance are anything but assumptions, speculations, or leapt conclusions. Just because the comments are repeated endlessly by the media does not make them "facts."
Example: within a day or so, it was reported that there MAY have been military radar plots of an aircraft west of the missing airliner's last known position. That POSSIBLE BUT UNCONFIRMED RADAR ECHO has now morphed into a "fact" that the airliner made a gross course change. It is now so accepted as fact that the entire search is concentrated thousands of miles away.
It's ludicrous.
Edited because - hey, I make typos, too!
1. The plane is not still in the air.
2. Wherever the plane landed (and it did land) we'll determine its fate based upon physical evidence either recovered or positively identified.
Everything else will be speculation until hard evidence is found. Otherwise this will become another Amelia Erhart mystery. All we can say for sure is that she landed.
You are assuming that the "radar data" wasn't a false echo AND that if it was a plane it was this plane. Neither is a safe assumption. The last CONFIRMED radar plot and ACARS data had the plane on its intended ground track.
Stop accepting every media report as fact. Lord knows you clowns don't accept any other official statement. In fact you automatically dismiss any official comment as a lie or a conspiracy. Why do you believe every half-assed report on this?
Where did you obtain this 'confirmed' info? Media reports? [:0][:D]
One way or another, using the duck principle rather than media hype...
At this point it would be no more than a guessing game on who, how and why, but when it comes to the where of this incident we're seeing strong indications that this airplane did travel southwest, away from any area where a safe landing could be made.
What we saw in the immediate aftermath is that the countries most capable of determining where this airplane disappeared to sent only enough assets to show the world they were doing something, but didn't literally swarm the China Sea or out west of Malasyia as others did. In addition these countries deployed no additonal anti-air assets to the region in expectation of that airplane being weaponized and set out on some sort of terror mission.
Instead what we're seeing is these countries now deploying their extensive search assets in the complete opposite direction, way out in the southern Indian Ocean.
These actions are unspoken but significant 'comments' on the part of the US and our close electronic intel ally, Australia.
That reminds me I think I'll look for that one movie where Peter Sellers plays a Chinese detective with number One son. What the hell was that movie name?
The Somali Pirates jacked the plane in mid-flight. Next Tom Hanks movie. The word is they may use tape to make Tom's eyes slanty for the roll.
That reminds me I think I'll look for that one movie where Peter Sellers plays a Chinese detective with number One son. What the hell was that movie name?
You may be thinking of "Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen", but that was Peter Ustinov, not Peter Sellers. Sellers played Dr. Fu Manchu.
If they find a wreckage on the ocean floor, people will doubt the authenticity
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