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Wouldn't all the air be super pressurized and therefor more dense so the plane could fly even better in an underwater airport if you think about it.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean
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Wouldn't all the air be super pressurized and therefor more dense so the plane could fly even better in an underwater airport if you think about it.
Bam Bam Baklava
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What about The Langoliers?
toxicgonzo
Taxes?! Isn't this the line for Metallica?
Channel 9 News is now claiming the aircraft dropped to 5,000ft to avoid detection. Here's the tweet:
No other news agency has reported this, don't read too much into it yet
Edit: some Australian news outlet
No other news agency has reported this, don't read too much into it yet
Edit: some Australian news outlet
Singularity42
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Another good one! That would have been my other suggestion.
What's Channel 9 News? Your local television station?
maquiladora
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I don't buy the southern route. Why go to the trouble of turning off the devices that can track the location of the plane and then keep flying it for 7 hours only to end up crashing into the ocean anyway?
StopMakingSense
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looks like National Australian TV News
cartoon_soldier
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But then northern route = countries that monitor air space heavily due to history
Why would he leave evidence behind for investigators to stumble on, though?
Boy Wander
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Been following on and off for the past few days - is there any consensus on likely scenario here? Pilot/Co-pilot gone rogue and crashed the plane? Pilot/co-pilot gone rogue and stolen the plane and landed it somewhere? Is it also the case that nobody other than the flight crew can get into the cockpit since 9/11 happened?
maquiladora
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I'm just saying the southern route doesn't make any sense given what we know, I just don't buy it.
Could it have been detected and shot down by one of those countries on the northern route who are now covering it up? Maybe. Could it have taken a route that evaded the military radar net which turned out to be more porous/poorly staffed than you might think? Maybe.
Infographic made by Washington Post.
This is really, REALLY good and just about sums everything up that's 100% confirmed, other than (5) and (6) which has yet to be commented on by Malaysian authorities.
If 5 and 6 are true the possible area of the southern arc can be significantly reduced due to min/max speed plot vs last verifiable location.
Betta Lines
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If just one other satellite picked up the final ping that has generated these two 'corridors' to search in, would those corridors immediately become a single point/small area?
StopMakingSense
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Depends. Two satellites would yield 2 points (circles overlapping), but depending on factors you could possibly dismiss one of the points.
Technically yes, it would, but we don't have any idea what kind of ping was picked up at 8:11 - for example if it was related to a specific system on the plane, thus wouldn't have anything to do with other satellites.
The authorities who all scrubbed the data (again, quoted as FAA, NTSB and AAIB) would know, of course, and Lord knows that'd be their main priority right now to scrub more information as it becomes available (still hoping another country's radar/etc picked up something, e.g. 5 and 6) since the southern corridor is ludicrous.
The authorities who all scrubbed the data (again, quoted as FAA, NTSB and AAIB) would know, of course, and Lord knows that'd be their main priority right now to scrub more information as it becomes available (still hoping another country's radar/etc picked up something, e.g. 5 and 6) since the southern corridor is ludicrous.
The Broken Ska Record
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Basically the only consensus is that deliberate human action took place. It's not known if the pilot/co-pilot did anything, if it was a hijacking, or what.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...utter-journalism/story-e6frfmyi-1226853816772
As an aside I'm finding it fucking hilarious that this article says "Were not gutter journalism", and literally 3 lines below is a URL that reads "ROLLING COVERAGE: Crash site found"
They're *spheres* not circles of. Technically.
Well, the intersection of a single satellite's 'sphere' with the 'sphere' represented by the surface of the earth already creates a two-dimensional (or close-to) circle. So technically two satellites plus the earth's surface makes for three spheres resulting in two points.
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(please don't take this post seriously)
j_k_redtail
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WaPo, putting the world to shame.
Chittagong
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Is the 45000 ft thing confirmed? Would be insane for it to have gone so high.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
because it doesn't matter. you hijack a plane, you're not going to have a normal life again.
aircraft carrier with a landing pad that turns into a submarine and sinks under water.
they probably just incinerate the passengers they don't want by using them to power their submarine
not literally, i was just implying they landed in the ocean. or oceaned, even.
There was a question during the press conference yesterday regarding the altitude of the plane after it changed direction, all the way back across peninsular malaysia. The answer didn't outright deny that info, said they had the information about the altitude and that they are talking to the service provider for the radar whether the height of the aircraft can differ because of the system calibration. They have outright denied a lot of other information, so the fact that this wasn't outright denied says something.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt they could have misunderstood the question.
edit: here https://soundcloud.com/falk-2/clip-2/s-804wP
My only point is that so far all signs point towards a very deliberate and meticulously planned theft/hijacking. Whoever it was wanted that plane to disappear. And it would have too, except the engine manufacturer kept tabs on it despite Malaysian Airlines explicitly opting out of that program. Without that satellite data, we would truly be without a clue right now. Probably still searching the oceans near Malaysia.
Sounds a bit crazy to me, since if you're an Anwar supporter you don't kill a plane full of Chinese people, who all mostly support Anwar since the current government discriminates against them with their policies.
I feel like a guy supporting the opposition is less likely to be a terrorist? but i know little about the situation.
Anwar is something of a hero amongst a lot of the urban Malaysians just due to the political climate in Malaysia where a lot of governmental injustice and rigging is believed to have taken place across decades. He was candidate for Prime Minister had the opposition won in elections last year, and held many peaceful rallies across the country in the time immediately after that, reiterating the call for fair elections.
Regardless of the current (horribly unjustified, in my opinion) sodomy case coincidentally taking place right before this sequence of events, I have a hard time believing that he is in any way involved in this, nor would he condone it. He's been in Malaysian politics for a loo-o-ong time without any extremist tendencies.
Regardless of the current (horribly unjustified, in my opinion) sodomy case coincidentally taking place right before this sequence of events, I have a hard time believing that he is in any way involved in this, nor would he condone it. He's been in Malaysian politics for a loo-o-ong time without any extremist tendencies.
kerotan_eater
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Commercial channel. Akin to NBC and CBS.
Edit: Here is a Sydney Morning Herald report
Ether_Snake
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Yes of course, the US would put a highly secretive cargo on some civilian plane.
The same sources are probably the ones that pretended early on that the two people on board with stolen passports were Ukrainians.
-- Given the baggage handling I've seen at some airports it would be more believable if they said the wrong cargo got loaded accidentally, forcing the Black Helicopters to get involved.
Sectorseven
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Ok, here's another question:
With half the world now looking for this plane, how difficult would it be to dismantle it and perhaps transport it to its next destination in sections, and then reassemble it?
With half the world now looking for this plane, how difficult would it be to dismantle it and perhaps transport it to its next destination in sections, and then reassemble it?
SmackCrackleNPop
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Extremely difficult, it's complicated aircraft that takes special tools and machines to dismantle and put together, I don't think a small group of people can do it
Next to impossible. The airframe can't really be reassembled and still be capable of flying.
Ether_Snake
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Or let's turn that around and say Russia paid the pilot to steal the cargo.
PantherLotus
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We have crossed the rubicon, folks.
Sectorseven
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Is there something special about the 777 that would make it more desirable than other planes?
If you're just going to load weapons on it you could probably accomplish that with most passenger planes.
If you're just going to load weapons on it you could probably accomplish that with most passenger planes.
Anticitizen One
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That pilot sure took this song a little TOO LITERALLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtFBRJFN3p8&feature=kp
SmackCrackleNPop
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-- Russia paid the pilot off but double-crossed him, and now he's wearing concrete shoes at the bottom of the harbor. In his place was a special forces agent with plastic surgery to look just like the original.
Step 2) Hijack a plane full of Boeing engineers
Step 3a) Disassemble 777
Step 3b) Reassemble 777
Step 4) Process with genius plan
We're not talking about something trivial that anyone can do here lol
Nothing ridiculous about that theory, especially if it's confirmed the plane dropped to 5,000 feet.
kaiju
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Those Navy Seals died weeks ago after a night partying with hookers. Heroin overdoses.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-ex-navy-seals-on-maersk-alabama-died-of-respiratory-failure-police-say/
if the theory that this plane landed with the intent to fly again is true, do we know if they can disable the engines data 'ping'?? assuming they watched any news they are now aware of it.
If not, RR will know immediatley that the engines are running...but i guess in the hollywood view they could swap engines...but then theyd need engines made for a 777 that are flight worthy...
wtf plane.
If not, RR will know immediatley that the engines are running...but i guess in the hollywood view they could swap engines...but then theyd need engines made for a 777 that are flight worthy...
wtf plane.
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