Are they suggesting that its on an airstrip somewhere or something?
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean
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Are they suggesting that its on an airstrip somewhere or something?
Ditching in the oceans usually involves much bigger waves than in the cases where an aircraft has successfully landed in a body of water like a river. Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive list of water landings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_landing
They would prefer a thousand batshit theories they can explore all night using lego models and methed out experts. It's really more like TMZ every day.
Phoenix
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Both of you are correct in this scenario. The only reason as many people survived in this incident as did is because the pilot specifically ditched as close as he could to land such that they were easily accessed for rescue. I would expect that an experience pilot/crew such as the ones in this flight would have been trying to do the same.
-- Last night several of the commentators pretty much just shat on the crazy theories and the host kept saying "well people want us to present all the options."
It took them 70+ years to find the Titanic, and everyone knew the general area where it sank.
It won't take that long thanks to today's technology, but still...it ain't easy to find something thats likely on the bottom of the ocean, especially if you have no clue where to look.
Phoenix
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Define regularly. Substance abuse and psychological tests are performed often, but that would vary from country to country and airline to airline. Much like aircraft maintenance, the standards in place for pilots varies a lot in various countries.
Blame Fox News for that nonsense.
I remember when Breaking News was reserved for news that was important to the nation.
Well, real breaking news still is. Breaking news makes no sense for a 24/7 network because they have no other programming to break into
Phoenix
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The would be breaking into coverage of a different story, the same way a traditional TV news station would say "This just in" if they were covering weather and a meteor crashed into Air Force One.
Liquidsnake
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If this was a plane that left the US, they would have found it hours after.
Im not trying to sound like a dick, but It is my belief.
Im not trying to sound like a dick, but It is my belief.
CNN in a nutshell.
"John is a professor at the University of Education, and he believes the plane turned into a nuclear submarine and is planning a terrorist attack. That is a fascinating theory John, can you expand on it for the next 30 minutes?"
RoninChaos
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So I haven't kept up with this thread, but I have friends who believe that this plane was commandeered, and it will eventually be repainted, given a new tail and call sign, and then used to hit a building in a few years.
Not the craziest shit I've heard. Makes the mind wander though.
Not the craziest shit I've heard. Makes the mind wander though.
Breaking News - Car Fire on I-95
What?
LOL. It's funny watching these talking heads give their take on aviation. Hilarious.
Lovely Salsa
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What a horrible way to die! Cant imagine the panic
-- I found it quite depressing.
Fjolle
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You can't even find your own nukes.
Stutter and stammering their way though
conversations.
Also, how many times is CNN going to Martin Savage in the cockpit? They try to explain shit to the average viewer and it just makes it more confusing.
Stop it already.
CadetMahoney
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this.
Once it's in the sea it can't broadcast it's beacon far from what I've read in this thread.
Phones don't work in planes so far away from a phone mast and the plane didn't have consumer-access-wifi enabled/installed.
dorkimoe
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And on the 10th anniversary of LOST
MMBosstones86
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How is it coming out now then? Havn't they had the data for a while?
Pilot deleted some files from his computer.
I don't know what you're trying to go with here...but nope.
CNN at least can take comfort that it's not Fox.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/...g-plane-it-took-2000-years-to-find-noahs-ark/
Oh. my. I don't think I'd ever show my face in public again.
Oh my word.
crazy monkey
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that is what i have been saying. Just search area is so massive.
How do you figure when A) No information is known on the circumstamces, B) the criteria to duplicate the facts that 'are' known is a non country specific issue due to the nature of the plane and tracking technology involved and C) you've got 26 countries, including the U.S, who currently can't find this thing.
-- You are operating under the mistaken impression that any of these circling vultures have even a shred of shame.
Is Fox News that ridiculous?
The Dutch Slayer
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owwww man in a week where the colbert report and the daily show are a week off.
That is one missed opportunity.
Even for a fundie, wouldn't that be at least another couple thousand years off anyway? I wasn't aware the Ark was sailing during the time of Jesus.
The irony being that it's almost like he's claiming the Ark is fictional. Of course he didn't even get the timing of when the story was written right, but assuming he thinks it was part of the New Testament he's saying it was created when it was written about.
toxicgonzo
Taxes?! Isn't this the line for Metallica?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/search-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-drastically-narrows/story?id=22975958
The search area has been cut down "drastically" (still a very large area though). Probably because Australia shared some of their radar coverage and by process of elimination figured where the plane couldn't have gone.
The search area has been cut down "drastically" (still a very large area though). Probably because Australia shared some of their radar coverage and by process of elimination figured where the plane couldn't have gone.
Atleast some progress.
But how much is this whole fiasco going to cost them? Its got to be a pretty large sum.
$10 per flight is about 5¢ per passenger.
There is a high fee included. But nonetheless, it should be a musthave feature.
It's so terribly easy to look in hindsight to see what could have prevented a disaster.
Companies don't go out of their way to pay for things that might only occur less than a hundredth or a percent or maybe even less. If you operated that way you'll have very high operating costs.
It's another thing for the aviation regulations to mandate such functions though, which is what they should do.
It's another thing for the aviation regulations to mandate such functions though, which is what they should do.
I know next to nothing about deepsea diving, but there have to be some trenches that are just completely inaccessible to us, aren't there? All I'm saying is that if the wreckage sank into some area like that, it'd never be found.
Would be nice if this and the whole issue with GM and Toyota currently would shed some light on this for the general public, but then you look all the way back to the Pinto and wonder how the big companies can always manage to sweep these things under the rug.
Time to call James Cameron then?
If that black box was pinging in the ocean a US submarine would have found it. I've tracked shrimp from miles away, a black box wouldn't be any problem.
But if this was a takeover it would have been turned off just like ACARS was. Frankly it's in pretty poor taste for someone to use this as a marketing opportunity.
THE:MILKMAN
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Just saw this BBC analysis and it sounds like they're closing in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26654971
Apparently, the plane can only be at the end of each arc due to math/geometry? And the plane was heading due south until it ran out of fuel?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26654971
Apparently, the plane can only be at the end of each arc due to math/geometry? And the plane was heading due south until it ran out of fuel?
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron.
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