BroadwayJoe12 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Soo, this actually happened. What's everyone thinking: hijacking gone wrong and crashed? Shot down? How do the stolen passports come into play, or do they? The most recent update that I've found has been some minor debris by the Vietnam navy. You'd think that with a plan that size, the debris scatter pattern would be pretty easy to spot with this type of search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Who doesn't think the answer is aliens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 Who doesn't think the answer is aliens? I deleted aliens before submitting. I figured I've got enough bad karma coming my way, I don't need to add it by mocking the overlords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I deleted aliens before submitting. I figured I've got enough bad karma coming my way, I don't need to add it by mocking the overlords. I had the same thought and...Well everyone has a choice, Marty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't been following this all that closely, but it sounds like a terrible tragedy. So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 It is sad, and it sounds like that flight had trouble the whole time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't been following this all that closely, but it sounds like a terrible tragedy. So sad. Agreed. Hopefully they'll be able to provide better answers than "possible mid-air disintegration," so that the families can get some closure and properly grieve. The piece of information that I found so shocking, was that of the 1 billion people who fly internationally every year, four out of 10 - a full 40 percent - are never checked against interpol's database of lost or stolen documents, to see if they're traveling on false papers, even though the database costs nothing to check. I mean that in and of itself is just ridiculous. Apparently setting up an interface to check it and utilize this database would not require that much capital or resources, countries just don't do it. At least the US gets this right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanInDenver Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 They have not found the debris. Earlier reports of finding the debris have been discredited. They have no idea on where the black boxes are. There were two guys who bought tickets on this flight together, one to fly to Frankfurt and other to Copenhagen both via Beijing and then Amsterdam. Really long way to get to Europe. There are quite a few theories. Hopefully they find the debris and the black boxes for better clues. This is more baffling than when the tragedy of AF 447 occurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 They have not found the debris. Earlier reports of finding the debris have been discredited. They have no idea on where the black boxes are. There were two guys who bought tickets on this flight together, one to fly to Frankfurt and other to Copenhagen both via Beijing and then Amsterdam. Really long way to get to Europe. There are quite a few theories. Hopefully they find the debris and the black boxes for better clues. This is more baffling than when the tragedy of AF 447 occurred. The longer this drags on the crazier the theories will get and that's really the last thing the families need. I don't know nearly enough about air travel or search and rescue to know how difficult it is to find a crashed plane, but in general when there's an unsolved problem I always fall back to Occam's razor 1) Electronics malfunction, plane crashed, cannot find debris 2) Shot down by high-powered missile, led to disintegration of aircraft. Those involve the least amount of variables. Still, it all seems quite strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I deleted aliens before submitting. I figured I've got enough bad karma coming my way, I don't need to add it by mocking the overlords. I had the same thought and...Well everyone has a choice, Marty. Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 nobody has taken "credit" for it, doubt it's a shoe bomb the interesting thing is it may have tried to change course it had to be rodan, of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgb Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 i hear some of the passenger phones are still active. maybe the pilot was able to put it down somewhere in a jungle and there are a few survivors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryK Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 China has re-tasked satellites to provide images and assist the search. If their satellites are anything like my drill from Harbor Freight, those pictures will have the resolution of a scene from minecraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crusher Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 James Bond villian superweapon FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelticwizard Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Last I heard they were wondering if the plane was in North Korea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanInDenver Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 So in the 13th day of the search what we have is DHS thinking north, DoD thinks Pakistan, Boeing thinks Pakistan and the NTSB thinking south closer to Perth. The sad irony! Update: They have sighted two objects via satellite imagery in Southern Indian Ocean closer to Perth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryK Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 My theory (but I don't follow it that closely): -pilot wants to snag a plane and take it somewhere in Indian Ocean. -flies up high to quiet the passengers -comes down, didn't work, goes up high again. -he's a moron, and he passes out too. -plane flies until it runs out of gas. bloop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFSIKH Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 My theory (but I don't follow it that closely): -pilot wants to snag a plane and take it somewhere in Indian Ocean. -flies up high to quiet the passengers -comes down, didn't work, goes up high again. -he's a moron, and he passes out too. -plane flies until it runs out of gas. bloop. I read an article the other day that explained the rise in elevation. The article asked a pilot what he thought happened. He speculated that an eletrical fire likely happened on the plane. As a means to combat/fix the issue, they take systems offline like the transponder. The right turn, as originally reported last week, he reasoned was a common practice among pilots when an emergency arrises. He said, pilots try to maintain situational awareness of nearby airports to their current position in case of emergency. It is not always practical to return to a major airport. When he looked at the path of the turn it was towards an airport on an island right off of Malaysia. The rise in elevation is a practice to lessen the oxygen in the airplane in case the fire is out of control. He speculated that the pilots succumbed to the fire and the plane ran until out of gas. I do not know how that or if it relates to the new information coming out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayNoToDMC Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Don Lemon asked a panel on CNN seriously about a black hole because it was trending on Twitter. They should have the ancient aliens guy on next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Don Lemon asked a panel on CNN seriously about a black hole because it was trending on Twitter. They should have the ancient aliens guy on next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Don Lemon asked a panel on CNN seriously about a black hole because it was trending on Twitter. They should have the ancient aliens guy on next Sounds like the script room for Indiana Jones 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt39 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 what the hell is going on here now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 whether Ukrainians thought it was Russian plane posing threat and they rocketed it down or like in Poland w/Hitler where he claimed Poland killed Germans 1st (red herring to justify 9/1/39 invasion) the Russians did it, to provide a 'excuse' to say they have to occupy totally the Ukraine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFJF Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 So terrible...nearly 300 dead. WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayNoToDMC Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Why are flights being directed over an active war zone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC36 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Just a warning to be careful and not get political about this tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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