Malaysia Airlines jet w/239 missing. crash unconfirmed .

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/07/malaysia-airlines-beijing-flight-missing/6187779/

Updated On: 3/8/14 at 03:15 AM

Seems to have gone down in the South China Sea, unconfirmed reports saying the plane might have blown up

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I mean no disrespect, but why do headlines and people keep repeating that there were Americans on board. Does it somehow make it worse? There were people from many countries on that flight.

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So tragic.

Hoping for the best.

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I just heard that oil slicks were sighted in the water where it might have gone down. No other info yet

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Updated On: 3/8/14 at 04:11 PM

I understand why planes would crash/explode/etc but how does it happen and no one knows what happened to the plane. Isn't GPS supposed to be on these things? Wouldn't there be debris?

It's 2014.

It is not as simple. To begin with, there was no communication from the cockpit alerting of any issues.

The tracking would let you know of a general area where the plane is, but in this case there was no indication as to even where the plane was when this happened. If it's over the ocean, the debris would be who-knows-where.

It was also not under any kind of weather issue nor at a critical moment of the flight. At a couple hours in, the plane pretty much flies itself.

My best bet is that this was a terrorist attack.

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I still can't think of a good reason as to why they wouldn't have alerted anyone if they were in trouble, planes just don't fall off the sky in a second.

Two stolen passports from different nationalities onboard sounds pretty bad to me.

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One Italian passport was reported stolen two years ago. I believe the other passport belonged to a Canadian, and it was also reported stolen.

An Italian and an Austrian.

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I, too, am also disheartened by constantly hearing that there were three Americans on board. I guess since we're in America, that's what reporters think we'd like to know. I just hope that news reports in foreign countries are doing the same to their respective citizens. God speed!

I guess American news outlets report that there's Americans onboard because, in theory, their families could be alerted.

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"I'm sure the crash will be reported in terms of whether any of the victims ever passed by on I-10."

Do stay tuned and come back and tell us the minute that happens.

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Updated On: 3/8/14 at 11:06 PM

Now they are saying that the tickets of the two stolen passports were purchased together.

The naïve person in me wants to hope it was a hijacked plane and not a crash.

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Updated On: 3/9/14 at 04:56 AM

That's not entirely correct.

This is not a direct translation but CNN takes what the Vietnamese Navy reported and presented it as such: Vietnam's navy has spotted a floating object about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Vietnam's Tho Chu Island, which is located off the country's southwest coast in the Gulf of Thailand, Vietnam National Search and Rescue Committee Spokesman Hung Nguyen told CNN. The object was spotted by a Vietnamese navy rescue aircraft at about 7:30 a.m. ET Sunday (6:30 p.m. local time). Due to the dark, the navy aircraft could not get close enough to identify the floating object, and was recalled to base. Three search and rescue boats have since been deployed to that location

All we know is that it's an object. No idea if it's a fragment of a plane, or not. Too dark for anyone to see.