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[SamPaaji]

http://www.livestation.com/en/sky-news-international

 

[jufonuk]

I'm sticking by the fire on board, turn to the runway for emergency landing just off Malaysia.

all passed out or died from smoke inhalation before landing could be made.
course heading kept it going until it crashed due to lack of fuel/no one to steer the plane.

 

[breakfuss]

Yeah, I just got an alert on my phone about the Malaysian Airlines SMS. Oh, man.

 

[Oersted]

They are briefing the families beforehand.

 

[Oersted]

Malaysian Airlines: "We assume beyond any reasonable doubt that #MH370 has been lost and none of those on board survived""


Fuck

 

[jufonuk]

please don't be a terrorist

 

[LiK]

Malaysian Airlines: "We assume beyond any reasonable doubt that #MH370 has been lost and none of those on board survived""


Fuck

Shit

 

[TOP SHOTTA]

Brief statement. The Malaysian PM regrets to inform the world that the flight ended over the Indian ocean in a remote location west of Perth. After a type of analysis that has never been done before, that is what the data show. It was a very definitive statement.

So basically they are completely doing away, now, with any chance that the plane was brought somewhere else and that the people are safe and they are trying to provide some closure. It crashed. What they found is probably true wreckage <- that is my opinion

 

[sangreal]

so they haven't found it, but determined the last ping was from the middle of the ocean far from any land (in the same area as all the debris sightings) so it obviously crashed

 

[Toadette]

so what happened ? did they find the plane

 

[Mondy]

Malaysian Airlines: "We assume beyond any reasonable doubt that #MH370 has been lost and none of those on board survived""


Fuck

There was never any doubt. May all 249 on board rest in peace.

 

[dc89]

we may never truly know what happened here.
RIP.

 

[Betty]

Seems that's it then, feel sorry for the families, but at least there's closure now.

 

[Maddog]

so what happened ? did they find the plane

They have not found it but they are very confident they know where it has crashed.

 

[VOOK]

Sucks

Been hearing the military jets taking off all week, kinda surreal. (Perth resident here)

 

[duckroll]

Not a lot of details, but at least there's a little bit of closure now. Hopefully there'll be physical evidence found shortly to put the entire episode to rest.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

Sad to hear . Are they going to continue looking, or is that it?

 

[Toadette]

They have not found it but they are very confident they know where it has crashed.

very sad , so it was just a terrible accident

at least it wasn't terrorism i hope im not been insensitive by saying this

 

[The_Inquisitor]

Sad to hear . Are they going to continue looking, or is that it?

Of course. They need to know the cause.

 

[Betta Lines]

After a type of analysis that has never been done before

Would be interesting to have more details about this.

 

[Selner]

There was never any doubt. May all 249 on board rest in peace.

I wouldn't say there was never any doubt. There has always been a tiny bit of doubt. Just enough to rest a tiny, tiny bit of hope on.

What's a little sad is they spent so much time searching up by land, when the plane was in the water far to the south.

 

[Mondy]

We must endeavor to find out how the fuck this plane found itself so far off course. It's going to make for an incredible story.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Seriously?

 

[Toadette]

Sad to hear . Are they going to continue looking, or is that it?

stupid question but what happens to the victims and plane do they just leave it in the ocean ?

 

[Cmagus]

Sad to hear hopefully they can eventually find something at some point. On a side note the coverage on MSNBC is pretty disgusting. One of the reporters are in the room with the families holding up the phone saying can you hear them like that's pretty disrespectful.

 

[Cromat]

Seriously?

Ugh. Death penalty for these people

 

[jufonuk]

Seriously?

wtf??????????? , no way man no way

 

[MMBosstones86]

at least it was terrorism i hope im not been insensitive by saying this

what?

 

[Toadette]

Seriously?

ugh! anything for ratings i suppose let those poor people be

 

[Betty]

stupid question but what happens to the victims and plane do they just leave it in the ocean ?

That part of the ocean is very deep, I don't even think the black box could withstand the pressure if it sunk all the way to the ocean floor. Recovering the plane might be impossible depending on the depth it's at too.

 

[Toadette]

what?

holy crap thanks for pointing out my spelling error

i meant to say wasn't terrorism

i went back and edited my post

 

[coldfoot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-2_Greyhound

The C-2 is a far cry from a P-8 which is much heavier. You can't land a P-8 on a Carrier.

 

[Betta Lines]

stupid question but what happens to the victims and plane do they just leave it in the ocean ?

If it was a heavy impact with the water, the plane could be in millions of pieces. They may still never find it or the bodies, although the fact they're flying family members over could suggest some kind of confidence that they're going to find something?

 

[e_i]

We must endeavor to find out how the fuck this plane found itself so far off course. It's going to make for an incredible story.

Something went wrong in the plane, pilot changed course to find an airport. Plane didn't make it.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

stupid question but what happens to the victims and plane do they just leave it in the ocean ?

They try to salvage everything they can to determine the cause. If their are bodies they usually pick them up to give them a proper burial.

 

[Oersted]

Seriously?

I bet he won't be the only one.

 

[Chezzymann]

So what's happened? Did they actually find any parts of the plane?

 

[TOP SHOTTA]

That part of the ocean is very deep, I don't even think the black box could withstand the pressure if it sunk all the way to the ocean floor. Recovering the plane might be impossible depending on the depth it's at too.

Not from what I have read. I think it is like 10,000ft in that area. I think it is within tolerances to get the black box if they can pick up the transmitter. I think 14,000 feet is the cutoff.

 

[Selner]

stupid question but what happens to the victims and plane do they just leave it in the ocean ?

Depends on how deep the water is.
Saftey folks are going to want the black box, if it is recoverable. As it could have valuable info that could be used to prevent future tradegies like this.

If they manage to find the wreckage on the ocean floor, it could be a long time before they are able to bring anything up.

It took like two years to bring up the black box from another crash, Air France or something like that? It was tossed around here as an example.

 

[TheOddOne]

 

[Toadette]

If it was a heavy impact with the water, the plane could be in millions of pieces. They may still never find it or the bodies, although the fact they're flying family members over could suggest some kind of confidence that they're going to find something?

wow crashing water could crush the plane into million pieces ? i never knew this very sad indeed

 

[Pandemic]

Damn.. Terrible ending to 2 weeks of heart-ache.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

stupid question but what happens to the victims and plane do they just leave it in the ocean ?

If the plane is shattered and the pieces scattered, would they just continue to search indefinitely? If they have been unable to find concrete proof so far, would they continue the search until they find something?

That's what I meant.

 

[Cromat]

The big questions are still unanswered. What happened? Was it mechanical failure? Pilot suicide? Hijacking? Terrorism?

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Not from what I have read. I think it is like 10,000ft in that area. I think it is within tolerances to get the black box if they can pick up the transmitter. I think 14,000 feet is the cutoff.

20,000 I think.

 

[Betta Lines]

Something went wrong in the plane, pilot changed course to find an airport. Plane didn't make it.

People will be looking for more details. You would expect that the kind of malfunction that results in a plane changing course but still able to continue to fly for hours would have the capability to send a distress message of some kind.

 

[JohnTinker]

 

[KHarvey16]

The data recorder is certified to 6000m ocean depth I believe, and there's a decent chance there's plenty of design margin there. Even if the box were crushed all that needs to survive is the flash memory ICs on the board for them to recover data.

 

[Mondy]

Something went wrong in the plane, pilot changed course to find an airport. Plane didn't make it.

The plane had to have crossed over land in order to get where it is. Unless they had no idea where they were going, which is extremely unlikely, there's no logical conclusion you can come to about how they ended up where they crashed without foul play.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

If the plane is shattered and the pieces scattered, would they just continue to search indefinitely?

That's what I meant.

They will search to find black box. Anything that they can collect around that is important, but has diminishing returns depending on ocean flow.