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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean
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Or it might report 0 airspeed when it doesn't have any data. There's too much between the transponder and that screen to draw conclusions.
You're an ATC? Is that the most stressful job in the world?
Aquamarine
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Hadn't seen this. What was up with that fast mover?
That plane was using this: http://lagswitch.net/
This would be an ordinary video, and we would shalk it up to being 0 altitude instantly due to a full communications break down, as the wreckage has not been found in that location, but that thing shooting past the screen is eerie as fuck
Twilight Gap
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Actually found a plane that I heard flying overhead on the flight radar. That's really fascinating.
Oh wow.
If looking at that doesn't convince you how incredibly safe you are flying, nothing will.
The Main Event
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Damn son. It gets creepier by the minute.
What's there to visit north of Ontario.
Oh wow.
DrForester
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OpinionatedCyborg
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Great circle routes to Europe.
Example, Los Angeles to London.
And going west, all flights to China, Japan, and Korea will travel north first.
Oh wow.
so jealous of westbound Hawaii flights.
geodesic mang
Very interesting video. thanx
God Dayumm
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But a straight path would be shorter and cheaper. What a scam!!1
cheststrongwell
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That would be some stressful shit.
Phoenix
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Yep.
Eh, extremely stressful 5% of the time I would say. Like, I am shaking after working for half an hour. Most of the time though it's easy as pie. We get paid for the 5% though. That is some crazy shit to be sure.
Lamel
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Yeah, it just goes to show water ditching needs to be PERFECT.
User Name Here
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Crazy how a couple people here have ties to someone on the flight. So sad..
Definitely scary....
Especially if anyone in a certain thread read/remembers a post I made about a certain phenomenon affecting people right here on the forums.
Prinz Eugn
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No, the real mindfuck is they don't change direction. It's the straightest route not involving plowing through some bedrock, but going from a spherical-ish Earth to flat maps makes for some strange visual effects.
To be fair Ethiopia Flight 961 had been hijacked, was out of fuel and both engines were powered down, flaps were all the way up and the pilot was fighting a hijacker while trying to ditch.
and people thought landimg on the hudson river was "easy".
No it doesn't.
Both engines were dead, they were out of fuel, stress of a hijacking, and the engine got snagged below the water on a reef. Wouldn't have been nearly as bad if the coral wasn't there.
Ether_Snake
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What the McFuck
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ia-airlines-and-the-case-of-the-missing-legs/
Carnival of stupid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ia-airlines-and-the-case-of-the-missing-legs/
Carnival of stupid
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Haha, i noticed this too and thought they had the same bag at first. Bit of an oversight but I think it's reaching to try and attribute anything to it. (Not saying you are - just the story had that angle to it)
Boogalogist
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Oh wow.
Wow..that's like level 100 in that Air Traffic Control game!
The narrator says that one the passengers who survived was thrown 300 feet from the plane @_@
EDIT: That would have been a perfect landing had it not been for that coral reef >_< The landing looks so perfect and then all of a sudden, it just starts flipping and I'm thinking "WTF happened?"
Looked like it was going smoothly until the left engine snagged on the reef, causing it to flip
Lamel
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So yeah, it wasn't a perfect ditch situation...that's what I said. If the pilot was able to focus and straighten the plane it could have worked.
Even if the only thing wrong was the slight bank of the plane and the left wing hitting first, it would have still been disastrous (well apart from the coral).
Only because they didn't follow directions and inflated their life vests before exiting the plane. They weren't able to get out of the plane once it flipped since they had to dive down to exit.
Oh, OK. I skipped some in the video and was wondering if the vests had already been inflated. I assumed that they were.
Gaming Truth
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Everything else looks fine, but found this one:
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
This is blowing my mind right now. Just tried it watching a Qantas plane fly overhead and it overlaid perfectly. What kind of wizardry!?
Mysterious
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Wall Street Journal ‏@WSJ 3m
Breaking: U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia flight 370 was airborne hours after vanishing http://on.wsj.com/O0q8sO
Breaking: U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia flight 370 was airborne hours after vanishing http://on.wsj.com/O0q8sO
NYCmetsfan
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Weren't hijackings pretty common in the 70s?
Megaton.
chalkitdown1
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Kinda off-point but, regarding that Ethiopian flight video, does it piss anyone else off when American shows subtitle a foreigner even when they're speaking perfect English? Even stranger in this case that they only subbed one of the pilots and not the other.
This is some future shit right there
Finaika
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