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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | missroselee - 2014-03-10 1:25 PM
Current news reports say that they found oil slicks that could have been from the plane if it did indeed crash. And one search plane reporting seeing what could be a door from the plane....prayers that they find the answers.
I just saw where they are saying the oil slicks are non related to the crash and that what they thought was the door ended up being trash. This whole thing is so weird. How does a huge air liner just disappear. The pictures i've seen of the family members are heart breaking |
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | And not to sound like a crazy, paranoid person, but i think there's a lot that goes on that the general public has NO idea about. They may know something and just aren't telling us |
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Location: Oklahoma | horsepoor1 - 2014-03-10 2:06 PM And not to sound like a crazy, paranoid person, but i think there's a lot that goes on that the general public has NO idea about. They may know something and just aren't telling us
The episode of Scandal where they did the job for the airline pilot is coming to mind.
If there is any accuracy to that show's portrayal of how airlines cover themselves in cases of crashes then there is definitely a lot going on that we have no idea about! |
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Location: So. California | Longneck - 2014-03-10 12:12 PM horsepoor1 - 2014-03-10 2:06 PM And not to sound like a crazy, paranoid person, but i think there's a lot that goes on that the general public has NO idea about. They may know something and just aren't telling us The episode of Scandal where they did the job for the airline pilot is coming to mind.
If there is any accuracy to that show's portrayal of how airlines cover themselves in cases of crashes then there is definitely a lot going on that we have no idea about!
Since this was an international flight and several countries were "tracking" the plane, the entire thing is just baffling. I would highly doubt the airline is covering up anything, too many countries/agencies had their eyes on this flight. They all lost the flight signal at the same time, the plane has just flat disappeared. No calls for help or that anything was amiss...
Seems if the flight was crashing/landing, they'd see that sudden drop of altitude on the screens. My understanding the plane just quit sending it's signal.
How was the flight signal masked/blocked and where is the plane/passengers? It had to go somewhere, right? |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Remember a few years back when a flight from Agentina to Paris (?) disappeared from the radar screen? I think it took a couple days before they even found any wreckage. That was out in the middle of the Atlantic. That was a combination of technical failure and pilot error, I think. Very odd that they haven't found any trace of anything. |
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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | HotbearLVR - 2014-03-10 1:49 PM Remember a few years back when a flight from Agentina to Paris (?) disappeared from the radar screen? I think it took a couple days before they even found any wreckage. That was out in the middle of the Atlantic. That was a combination of technical failure and pilot error, I think. Very odd that they haven't found any trace of anything.
Air France 447, from Buenos Aires to Paris. However with that they had transponders telling them that there was a mechanical/technical failure and the last location so they knew approximately where to find the wreckage. As well, there was known storms in their last location. There was no such equipment installed in the 777 for some unknown reason and no storms for MH370. It took 2 years to find the wreckage of AF447 because it was at 15,000 feet below sea level. But planes just don't.... disappear into thin air. |
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | i just read that some Chinese group is claiming they were responsible. This is all just so weird |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | It's not hard to change the beacon number they use to track you on radar...but that would only change the identity, not make it disappear. And you would think SOMEONE would notice if that happened. It had to have gotten too low to track, which most likely means crash. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I don't know if there's ever been an instance where a large airliner disappeared like this without a clue or a trace, after 3 days of searching or looking for answers. History is full of examples where things happen that were unimaginable, prior to the actual event. The only thing people seem to be talking about is the two stolen passports and one-way tickets. The thing that I keep wondering about is whether the terrorists have devised a new kind of bomb that is more destructive and harder to detect than anything we've seen. If our intelligence is aware of this, or hot on the trail of something along these lines, it could be they keep it mum, at least until something definitive is discovered. Ever since 9-11 there's been fears and talk about "suitcase nukes", for example. Small tactical nukes have existed ever since the early days of the cold war, and there is a body of thought out there that claims many suitcase nukes from the former Soviet Union are unaccounted for. If a weapon like this detonated, perhaps even by accident, then that plane would be vaporized. Anyway, my guess is they will eventually find debris and then the black box, but if they don't, then these far out possibilities have to be considered. |
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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | HotbearLVR - 2014-03-10 6:33 PM
I don't know if there's ever been an instance where a large airliner disappeared like this without a clue or a trace, after 3 days of searching or looking for answers. History is full of examples where things happen that were unimaginable, prior to the actual event. The only thing people seem to be talking about is the two stolen passports and one-way tickets. The thing that I keep wondering about is whether the terrorists have devised a new kind of bomb that is more destructive and harder to detect than anything we've seen. If our intelligence is aware of this, or hot on the trail of something along these lines, it could be they keep it mum, at least until something definitive is discovered. Ever since 9-11 there's been fears and talk about "suitcase nukes", for example. Small tactical nukes have existed ever since the early days of the cold war, and there is a body of thought out there that claims many suitcase nukes from the former Soviet Union are unaccounted for. If a weapon like this detonated, perhaps even by accident, then that plane would be vaporized. Anyway, my guess is they will eventually find debris and then the black box, but if they don't, then these far out possibilities have to be considered.
I am on my phone so I don't the link but I read on Reuters that the Americans have looked at there satellites in the area and they could not see any explosion or plane blowing up. Apparently the USA has satellits coverong the whole Gulf of Thailand |
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Location: oklahoma | Someone mentioned the possibility that it was hijacked and in another country. Still doesn't explain it completely disappearing off of the radar. |
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Location: So. California | CurlyQ - 2014-03-11 10:14 AM Someone mentioned the possibility that it was hijacked and in another country. Still doesn't explain it completely disappearing off of the radar.
Exactly, how did they "mask" the plane's signals? There was no indication of an explosion (not that it isn't possible) because satelite surveillance would have captured that. There is enough "amature" flight followers out there, that it couldn't be kept secret for long if that in fact happened. And where is the debris? Wouldn't it be scattered far and wide?
The plane had 7 hours of fuel on board when it disappeared. If it ran out of fuel, it could coast even futher, the plane could be anywhere. They haven't heard a single ping from either of the planes tracking boxes. One is located in the tail, one towards the cockpit. Seems it would be pretty darn hard to disable both boxes simultaneously.
Right now, complete failure of all mechanical/engeineering functions make the most sense. What are the odds on that? And why wasn't there a mayday call from he pilots?
It's almost like the plane flew into a vortex and poof, gone! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I'm thinking either aliens or time travel portal. Apparently, I've been reading too much. |
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Location: In a happy place | This is so very sad. The Bermuda Triangle stories have always intrigued me and this scenario has come to mind for me. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Whiteboy - 2014-03-11 12:54 PM
Anybody remember Lost?
Yes!! I have all 6 seasons on DVD.... Best job of casting for TV I ever saw...
I will not say what I think because I read too much Tom Clancy... |
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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | Well, it just got weirder. Malaysian military might have picked up the plane on radar, in the Straight of Malacca! That's on the west side of Malaysia. No explanations. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/03/10/21525326.html
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