Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 vanishes without trace

[Vintage Paw]

4. Your mum.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Reddit's getting quite slow, Courtney Love already found the same pic and I doubt she was first either.

 

[Sunray]

Courtney Love was a day behind reddit.

That is definitely the plane. Sea's pretty shallow around there. 60m is about as deep as it gets and it not common. Oil slick pretty obvious, did they even bother looking in that area?

 

[eskdave]

So that's that then...

got 4 engines-cant be it mate-on second thoughts-dunno-at least the Moon has been found

 

[eskdave]

It's been found by reddit...

http://www.channel4.com/news/has-reddit-found-malaysian-airlines-flight-370



Or it's a whale, or something else

to clarify

 

[ShakespearO]

Could the pilot / pilots have maybe parachuted out from the aircraft having set it on a course where it would run out of fuel and crash in a location unlikely ever to be found?

 

[eskdave]

But the extra weight of the fuel would mean that more fuel would be used to fly the heavier plane, thus negating the savings?

think its around 2$ -gal dearer in China(esp for Malaysians and us)-I hope they appreciate their unseasonable mangosteens FFS.

 

[eskdave]

In case you were still scratching your head over the Inmarsat diagram with two arcs (this is of course for illustrative purposes and not indicative of the suspected/actual flight path flown nor the associated intermediate arcs, which haven't been published):

good -but my old autistic noodle need a lot more info than that

 

[kebabking]

Could the pilot / pilots have maybe parachuted out from the aircraft having set it on a course where it would run out of fuel and crash in a location unlikely ever to be found?

its possible, though commercial crews don't have parachutes, and bringing one on board would raise eyebrows.

the only way to get out of a passenger aircraft in flight is through the same doors the passengers come though - opening that in flight, and making a successful exit would be, err... challenging. go out the forward doors and theres a good chance you'll either hit the wing, get swallowed by an engine, or just get bashed along the side of the aircraft. if you go out the rear doors you'll get thrown around by the turbulance or hit by the tailplanes - or both.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

A Boeing 727 has stair at the back behind all the gubbins that you could hit upon exiting the aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

 

[nuffsaid]

 

[eskdave]

wots this then-an unseasonable mangosteen ripening facility-i aint being paranoid -watch them chinks being yanked

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

wots this then-an unseasonable mangosteen ripening facility-i aint being paranoid -watch them chinks being yanked

chinks being yanked?


racists being flamed?

 

[Casually Red]

Ive seen this sort of thing happen before in the same part of the world .They should be checking out any suspicious looking islands with volcanoes on them.

 

[eskdave]

chinks being yanked?


racists being flamed?

You know you know what is meant-some of my other gentle chinese or american pals cannot bear this gangster shit for much longer

 

[eskdave]

Ive seen this sort of thing happen before in the same part of the world .They should be checking out any suspicious looking islands with volcanoes on them.

if you saw an island that was born of volcano -no suspicion-in this case plenteeee suspiscion

 

[eskdave]

Google Earth -especially in its portrayal of Xinjiang -deals in slop-lots of arbitrary overlays -and various spurious photo-noodling-who is trying to wind who up-fancy a mangosteen?

 

[skyscraper101]

Breaking news...

"Possible plane debris" spotted by the Australians

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26659951

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/austral...d-to-missing-malaysian-jet-have-been-spotted/

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Breaking news...

"Possible plane debris" spotted by the Australians

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26659951

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/austral...d-to-missing-malaysian-jet-have-been-spotted/

Nearly jumped out of my seat when I got an alert from BBC on my phone for that a few minutes ago

 

[skyscraper101]

Nearly jumped out of my seat when I got an alert from BBC on my phone for that a few minutes ago

Did it do the BBC news theme? Mine does that. It's takes you by surprise!

 

[skyscraper101]

Live video feed of press conference about to happen:

http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/malaysia-airlines-loses-contact-with-flight-march-8-2014/

 

[2hats]

Several objects spotted on satellite imagery slightly to the south of the planned search area (consistent with the general ocean current circulation in the vicinity). Largest estimated as some 24m across. P3 and P8 being retasked to search. A C130 will be dropping buoys to better model the current.

 

[skyscraper101]

I don't have a map image yet but they said this was 1,500ish miles South West of Perth? If so that's a bloody long way from where it was supposed to be no?

 

[2hats]

It's in the predicted neighbourhood. I'm hearing (ABC) that the USN P8 has picked up significant radar returns in the area.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

It's in the predicted neighbourhood. I'm hearing (ABC) that the USN P8 has picked up significant radar returns in the area.

What does that refer to? The black box, or something else?

 

[skyscraper101]

It's in the predicted neighbourhood. I'm hearing (ABC) that the USN P8 has picked up significant radar returns in the area.

But if it is the real thing, then that would suggest the pilot went massively off course. In fact way back beyond where he started. South rather than north. Which would then beg the question why?

 

[skyscraper101]

While we wait for some actual data, who wants to see Kay Burley running up an escalator the wrong way and tripping up in a media scrum?

 

[skyscraper101]

Right so here's a possible scenario. An electrical fault or fire on the transponcer causes the pilot to switch off the transponder for safety. He then needs to get he plane to the nearest airport and land it which means turning back south west along the peninsula. If, at some point he passes out due to smoke or whatever in the cockpit and the plane is on autopilot, it would have continued on a South Westerly trajectory until, presumably it crashed. That might explain how it ended up 1500 south west of Perth.

That's not my theory, it was just a scenario outlined on the news.

 

[2hats]

What does that refer to? The black box, or something else?

It would probably be (possibly synthetic aperture) radar returns from objects floating on the surface. The FDR/CVR (black boxes) are most likely on the bottom of the ocean, though there is a slim chance they could be attached to some floating debris.

24m is quite large. Much larger than a shipping container. Comparable to the length of a 777 wing, say...

 

[2hats]

Right so here's a possible scenario. An electrical fault or fire on the transponcer causes the pilot to switch off the transponder for safety.

Doesn't explain the disappearance of ACARS, the dogleg and tracking to the NW (VAMPI-GIVAL-IGREX), the reported wide variation in altitude, lack of any mayday call to prep ground fire/crash response at receiving airport, failure to dump fuel. Also, if there were a serious fire it is overwhelmingly likely that the plane would have come down close to Malaysia; planes on fire don't ever get very far.