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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean
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Definitely the right call.
So your dad is Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman? Interesting..
Finaika
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So your name is FlutterPuffs bin Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman?
Eh orang Malaysia ke? FIrst time jumpa kat Gaf.
Damn it...you shouldn't have revealed who you are and keep posting updates cboat style.
Gotta say it's depressing to see Malaysia in the news worldwide (and even on the first page of GAF OT) over this plane disappearance. The mood among my friends has been weird for the past few days, I don't think anyone really knows what to make of it.
Someone from my high school was on the plane with her sister and mother... this just hits too close to home.
Someone from my high school was on the plane with her sister and mother... this just hits too close to home.
The_Endless
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Amboi... Banyak orang Malaysia kat sini!
Finaika
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http://english.astroawani.com/videos/live
live press conference update
Link if you missed it
http://english.astroawani.com/video...ference-of-day-3-mh370-search-operation-27225
live press conference update
Link if you missed it
http://english.astroawani.com/video...ference-of-day-3-mh370-search-operation-27225
Why this image couldn't be anymore clear
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Looks like the same picture from earlier that said it found a door or something
Eh, you're a Malaysian? First time meeting you at GAF.
Oh my... there's a lot of Malaysians here!
Sir Blaming
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Yup,there are malaysian everywhere.
Including here
Including here
I'm just translating the posts for him.
Sir Blaming
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mostly mean that I was one, words failed me
FlutterPuffs
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Oh you guys. Yep, Malaysian!
Yep!
lol, no.
thehunter01
Banned
Couldn't they scan that ocean part with some satellite? or is that impossible.
Panda In Space
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Vietnam Civil Aviation Authority reported that it was not a life raft from the missing Boeing.
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As much as that wouldn't help when things have sunk to the bottom of ocean. Surely it would be able to identify floating objects and allow them to investigate in certain areas?
Fjolle
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I'm thinking that some military should have tracked the plane on their RADAR systems. A plane doesn't magically turn into stealth mode if the transponder is turned off, and i'm sure that most countries wouldn't allow planes to fly around in their airspace without identifying themselves.
Does airliners even have life rafts?
Does airliners even have life rafts?
Yes. I'm fairly certain they all do, whether their flight path takes them over water or not.
Frank Jaeger
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Doesn't the emergency slide you get off double as a life raft? I think I heard that somewhere!
aeroslash
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Of course. It's mandatory when overflying water, but they have them in every plane.
Yes, some can. But in most planes there are also life rafts. The ones i've seen are for 50 people.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
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Ok, this may be a really dumb question but would airliners have (waterproof) flares, smoke flares etc. That could be released with a flick of a switch in the cockpit, like many military aircraft do? Please don't crusify me for the dumb question. Just saying if it was an accidental crash and yet they lost contact with air tower, wouldn't they release such flares if they existed? (Sorry if it has been asked already or if it's a dumb questions) they probably won't burn longer than an hour or so too eh?
aeroslash
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No, they don't. They just have manual flares like the ones you see in films to do some signals when in ground or sea.
I would be too. He has 100s of grief-stricken people that are increasingly angry that he can't will answers out of the ether after all.
cartoon_soldier
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There are independent SOS and other signal providers which nobody inside the plane has direct control over.
The whole dropping of all radars completely, no SOS signals, no debris till now is just strange.
Slayer-33
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I know it sounds crazy but I'm wondering if this plane was a target of getting stolen by some terrorist organization and landed somewhere to the west of the flight path. With inside help from maintenance crew..
Fjolle
Member
Sounds like something out of a Tintin story
But I don't think that you would be able to hide a 777 easily.
That would make one hell of a movie.
Chittagong
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Amazingly, by every passing hour without a sign of debris, without a trace of any distress signals, alerts or records anywhere it's more likely that the plane didn't just crash/explode since some clue of such of a catastrophic event happening should be discovered eventually.
This definitely has the makings of the most intriguing flight incident ever.
This definitely has the makings of the most intriguing flight incident ever.
What would even be the point of that?
The only possible explanation. Or too soon.
I'm not optimistic. How long exactly did it take them to find that flight that went into the Atlantic a few years ago? If you look at the route map there isn't that much ocean to cover, you would think they would've found traces by now if it did hit the water.
Fjolle
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According to wikipedia some wreckage was spotted from an airplane 1½ day after the crash. As it took a couple of days to sail to the place they recovered the first bodies 5 days after.
It took them two years to find the wreckage and the black boxes.
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
Some crazy terrorist plan or some shit... Don't pay attention to me, I'm just trying to tie up everything that has happened so far into some sort of farfetched logical explanation.
I understood that reference.
Marvel
could never
Not even remotely funny, dude.
No wreckage yet, going to release the pictures of the people with stolen passports. Getting weirder and weirder.
@akaoni they found wreckage after a few days, and then did more detailed searches to find more parts of the plane and stuff.
You don't think just stealing a plane and making it just disappear isn't terrorism even if they do nothing with it? Its striking fear into peoples minds no?
@akaoni they found wreckage after a few days, and then did more detailed searches to find more parts of the plane and stuff.
You don't think just stealing a plane and making it just disappear isn't terrorism even if they do nothing with it? Its striking fear into peoples minds no?
I doubt there's anything more to the passport thing, could happen on any flight really, but it is weird how their flights after arriving in Europe went to different locations even though they booked it at the same time. Is it even physically possible for such a large in-flight aircraft to touch the sea and sink without any large debris breaking free?
What about the passengers?
I was responding to someone asking about terrorists landing the plane somewhere with 200+ passengers and like no fuel. Seems pointless because then they'd have to deal with refueling and doing something with all the passengers. Might as well blow the plane up or crash it into something. Also what's the point of a terrorist act if noone knows you did it? "Oh man I'm so scared of riding in an airplane with... wait, who blew up the airplane again?"
It would actually be pretty genius if that was the ploy. People ARE terrified that a plane can just disappear without a trace. It seems lots of people had a grossly inflated sense of how well tracked a passenger plane is and their worldviews have just shattered and fallen apart over the last few days.
Being able to disappear a plane with no explanation is far scarier than claiming responsibility because you plant this into the back of the minds of 7 billion people.
"A plane can just disappear, forever, for reasons we don't understand. Anyone could be at risk at any time and there's little we can do to stop it because we don't know why it happens"
I doubt it would have dissapeared that quickly had it been a fire. Swissair 111.
Maybe if there's a very dangerous spot for the fire, but it would have to destroy all communication before any malfunctions are reported and planes are made of materials that burn poorly.
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