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MH370

JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,352 ✭✭✭
edited March 2014 in General Discussion
Has been found.

The powers that be say it did in fact go down in the Southern Indian Ocean. The families have been notified and have booked on flights to fly them over the area.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Terrible news, not unexpected but it's surely hell on the families. Wonder if we'll ever learn how this happened? A failed terror attack? Wouldn't some terror group take credit?

    Awful stuff.
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If it were a failed attack and they were trying to grab it for later use by landing somewhere they obviously had figured out some new wrinkles in the hijacking business just did not get all the details right .I would expect them not to claim credit but to sit back and figure out what little detail they got wrong so the next time they try they grab one get away with it and fly a big old bomb or biologic weapon into Washington New York Hollywood London Sydney etc.
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  • nards444nards444 Member Posts: 3,994 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wouldnt be so sure yet. Nothing has been found only speculation from sattelite data.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I haven't seen that there is definitive proof that the debris is from MH370, though it seems now that there is very little doubt.

    That said, I don't understand the flying of family members over the area.

    If it were me, I don't think I would board a Malaysian Airlines plane for the trip.

    They lost a generator on an Airbus yesterday requiring a divert from Seoul to Hong Kong. If it happened 1500 miles from the nearest land, such an event could be problematic....
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  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,352 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Search teams have photos of several pieces. I also believe that not info has been given all along.

    Giving the families the info is pretty firm proof they know something.

    Who knows what happened, but i am happy the families have some closure.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Search teams have aerial photos of a "gray or green round object and a square orange object."

    Yup, that's positive identification all right. Because in the whole damn ocean there are no floating objects that aren't Malaysian airliners, right?

    Information that hasn't been given out? You betcha. I'm sure there are maintenance logs showing every cabin lightbulb ever changed since the plane was made, with the name and family history of the bulb changers to boot. Releasing that list would be of IMMENSE help, wouldn't it?
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  • ForkliftkingForkliftking Member Posts: 4,907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OMG!!!!! How are we ever going to explain this to the conspiracy theorists?
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  • nards444nards444 Member Posts: 3,994 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by forkliftking
    OMG!!!!! How are we ever going to explain this to the conspiracy theorists?


    I think when they can touch and show proof of pieces of the plane then well know for sure its gone. Until then who knows, but I tend to think they probably know.

    Im not sure well ever know why. But in short order the flight was ordered to crash by obama as he hates malaysia worst then the US. Im betting that was the reason.
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  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Malaysian gov't is declaring it crashed in the ocean but I think they are trying to get the families off their case. Also they don't want to admit that terrorists may have it. Fact is they don't have a flipping clue.
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  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,352 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am happy with the satellite company's analysis that the pings never went in any other direction other than southwest. The company took the time to eliminate every single ping recorded.

    I don't believe lithium batteries blew up, or there was a fire. If there had been an explosion or fire, the plane would not have flown 8 hours until it ran out of fuel. A fire would have consumed the plane in a matter of minutes, not hours.

    I think the plane is down, in the ocean and the problem we have at hand is no one wants to expose their spy satellite technology or locations. And that has been the biggest problem, and I am not so sure it is not what's holding up the location of the plane.

    I think @ 16 days it is safe to declare everyone dead. No one would survive in the ocean that long on a life raft. The fact that planes do not have lift rights proves this is not a realistic hope.

    If it has been hijacked and landed, terrorist would have demands. No demands, then they wanted the plane in which everyone is dead.

    777 has been in service since 1995. Since then, there has been 1 crash that had 3 deaths (which were from a emergency vehicle, not actually related to the crash). And now this. So in 19 years, the 777 just now decides to start having mechanical problems? I am not sure I buy that either. It's considered the safest plane ever mfg.

    I was wrong. The plane was not stolen. It might have been an attempt to steal it, but it's not sitting in a hidden bunker at this point. Unless they knew how to send that beacon in a direction opposite of the plane.
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