Malaysia Airlines jet w/239 missing. crash unconfirmed .

[~~tiny3~~]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 3:15am

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1>http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1>http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1>http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

http://www.cnn.com/


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

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 3:20am

My God.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 3:29am

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

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 9:47am

Just saw the Navy believes it has in fact crashed into the sea and that there are no survivors. Hasn't been confirmed, yet. There were three Americans on the flight. Very sad.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 10:34am

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.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 11:17am

14 different nationalities. There were also two infants

Updated On: 3/8/14 at 11:17 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 11:24am

So tragic.

Hoping for the best.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 4:06pm

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.

One report I read said that there were two confirmed cases of identity theft. One Italian passport was reported stolen two years ago. I believe the other passport belonged to a Canadian, and it was also reported stolen.

How are two people able to use two stolen passports? Who is supposed to be checking this stuff?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 4:11pm

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

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

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 4:18pm

That was in the report I read this morning. They've widened the search area, but it looks like it went down somewhere over the South China Sea.

Most of those on board were Chinese.

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 4:49pm

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.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 5:00pm

I do NOT profess to even remotely understand aviation technology, but an expert analysis on CNN claimed that the remote areas this plane flew over would not have allowed for satellite GPS tracking for the entire duration of the flight. In order to know of its status, the pilots are mandated to check in with the air traffic controllers via radio every hour or something like that. Sounds crazy to me in 2014 but it's what I heard. The expert also reiterated that aviation safety, technology, and protocol is not necessary universal. It is regional and greatly varies from region to region in the world.

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 6:10pm

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.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 6:29pm

If they had a cargo door fail, part of the fuselage would have ripped away. At that height you would have less than 12 seconds before hypoxia sets in. The same would have happened if something exploded on board. I work as a long haul flighty and due to places we fly, we pax home on Malaysia airlines every week. You kinda of learn in flighty school you aren't coming back from this.

May there souls rest in peace

Updated On: 3/8/14 at 06:29 PM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 7:08pm

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.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 8:00pm

How would they know about the two stolen passports so quickly?

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 8:08pm

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!

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 8:09pm

There are actually a total of four Americans. One is an infant. Not sure why so many keep reporting three.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 9:34pm

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

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 11:03pm

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.

I'm sure the theory is that the story will be more gripping if we "identify" with some of the victims by sharing their nationality.

I live in a relatively small, desert valley, but every news story somehow manages to mention what they call "the Valley Connection."

Our Oscar news leads with whichever winner has a cousin or retired parent living nearby. I'm sure the crash will be reported in terms of whether any of the victims ever passed by on I-10.

I agree it makes it seem like non-American lives are somehow less important, even though that isn't the intent.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/8/14 at 11:06pm

"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.

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

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 1:55am

It's just a bit jarring, as the reports here don't mention anything about nationality in the headlines, but many out of the US do.

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 4:56am

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.

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

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 11:49am

If anyone can read Vietnamese, this news report from 2 hours ago is about a (possible) fragment of the plane that was just found:

http://infonet.vn/can-canh-manh-vo-nghi-op-cua-so-may-bay-malaysia-tren-bien-post121635.info

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 1:50pm

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.