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[hunt4genetics]

Just when they shut down the conspiracy theory thread,

a jet liner just ups and goes missing. I have had no one to talk to about this for the last three days I'm gonna burst!


At least 2 people boarded with stolen passports!



Please tell me they are all safe and sound on an island with polar bears and smoke monsters.

 

[VonBudí]

dharma initiative up to their old tricks again.


in all seriousness how the fuck do you lose a plane? years after 9/11 and in such a contentious area it seems even more mad.

 

[stoned-trout]

its not lost its at the bottom of the ocean...wont be long they spotted the slick and a possible door...should of taken a slow boat huh.....most likely 2 crazy assholes with no reguard for life...planes don't go down that fast without a distress call/signal whatever.....something evil happened

 

[med_breeder]

Maybe it's the uighers "Weegers"



Just say'in

 

[med_breeder]

What's the deal with flight 370?

 

[420somewhere]

I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of this...

I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of this...

I would be looking at the people who got off and didn't go first, because you can.

The other two are probably dead people.

This is a very Bizzare and it will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

Best wishes to the Family and Friends of the LOST.

 

[justpassnthru]

Here's hope they are on an island re-inventing civilization.

Stoned-trout is most likely correct. Seems like something went wrong very quickly. jpt

 

[texsativa]

Suppposedly the oil slick and door was not from the plane.

Very strange indeed.

 

[sdd420]

All passenger aircraft have to have the black box. Even third world go to that extent so we will find it if they are willing to find it possibly very deep. Sounds bad though st is right peace sdd

 

[Midnight Tokar]

Next to impossible for a plane of that size to crash and not leave a debris field, especially at 35,000 feet. I read that our spy satellites detected no explosion in the area either.
They now say the plane may have made a u-turn. I wonder how hard it would have been to get under the radar with the planes transponders turned off.

 

[Vash]

Something in the milk ain't white.

 

[5th]

Anyone got a link? No...I don't watch the news.

 

[justpassnthru]

Anyone got a link? No...I don't watch the news.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...me-search-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-n49046

ith few clues, searchers are racing time, wind, and the current as they search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared from radar early Saturday morning between Kuala Lampur and Vietnam with 239 people on board.Even assuming that the wreckage landed in the water, searchers have hardly any solid hints to guide them.



“In other crashes, you might have good radar contact and see the altitude drop and drop until it crashes,” Commander Williams Marks told NBC News from the U.S.S. Blue Ridge in the South China Sea. “This one just kind of disappeared.”
Authorities and experts are not sure why the plane disappeared from radar. Regardless, it makes it more difficult to establish the starting point for a search, which is why Marks and the U.S. Seventh Fleet, coordinating with the Malaysian government and other national governments, is combing two areas: a sector in the Gulf of Thailand, where the ship was last spotted on radar, and the Strait of Malacca, where the plane might have turned around.
From there, search-and-rescue teams are competing against time and nature. The two biggest factors complicating the search are the wind and the currents.
The current in the Gulf of Thailand was moving at about one nautical mile per hour, according to the most recent scientific models on Monday.
At that rate, Marks noted, the search radius is increasing by at least one nautical mile per hour, meaning in a single day the search radius could expand by at least 24 nautical miles, or just under 28 land miles. Wind can make the situation even worse.

The current search area, provided by the Malaysian government.


Right now, teams from the United States, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia and other countries are searching an area in the Gulf of Thailand that is 100 nautical miles across.
Compounding the problem is the fact that water renders a lot of technology useless.
“I think what most people don’t understand is once you get below the water, GPS doesn’t work,” David Gallo, director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told NBC News. “You can’t use radio waves. Light doesn’t penetrate very far at all. All the things you would use to search on land, you don’t have beneath the sea.”
The U.S. Navy is currently using four MH-60R Seahawk helicopters and one P-3 Orion aircraft to look for physical evidence of the missing plane. Each helicopter, according to a release from the U.S. Seventh Fleet, is equipped with infrared cameras that allow it to search at night, while the P-3 can fly continuously for nine or 10 hours while searching the water with sensitive camera equipment.
Another factor is ocean depth. Judging by where the plane was last spotted, it could have landed in water deeper than 2,000 meters, or shallower than 100 meters, according to Arnold Gordon, head of ocean climate physics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
The latter would make it a lot easier to eventually recover the plane if it did go down in the water, he wrote to NBC News. The underwater terrain could also affect the ongoing search.
Gallo was co-leader of the search for Air France Flight 447, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. That plane, he said, went down over “an underwater mountain range that was as steep as the Rocky Mountains.”



The terrain off the coast of Malaysia, according to Gallo, is much gentler.
“That should make the search easier," he said, "but once you get out there and start looking, a plane is an awfully small object in an awfully big ocean."
The technological and logistical framework Malaysia has set up with surrounding countries to fight pirates in the region could be a big help, Thomas Anthony, a former regional investigator with the Federal Aviation Administration, told NBC News.
Ultimately, however, "there is no set time to call an investigation off," he said, pointing to the two years it took to discover the wreckage of Flight 447.
Robots were instrumental in finding the remains of that downed plane. They could be used again in this search. In the meantime, hundreds of human rescue workers are searching non-stop for answers to what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
“There is a sense of pressure,” Marks, the U.S. Navy commander, said. “Time is not on our side. But this is what we trained for and we will do it for as long as we are needed.”
NBC News' Alan Boyle, Alastair Jamieson, and Matthew DeLuca contributed to this report.

 

[5th]

oh yeah...those people are fucked.

 

[Max Headroom]

smells like an intelligence operation to me.
let's see how it develops.

 

[HempKat]

It only seems strange because we like to think that in this day and age of advanced technology things like this couldn't possibly happen. The sad truth is yes we do have the technological ability to prevent these things or to at least know precisely what's going on when it happens but the bottomline is the people with the power and money to implement the technology are too cheap. This isn't that much different then that Air France Plane that crashed off of South America a few years ago. It took them 2 years to find the wreckage and figure out what exactly happened. At that time a system was conceived for a live relay of data from the black box but it would require a lot of expense to make it happen and so the Airlines found a way to shut the debate down. Now that debate is starting up again. We'll see where it goes this time.

As for the two people boarding the plane with stolen passports, well it could be terrorists, there is a China based terrorist group claiming responsibility but they were previously unknown and have no record of doing anything like this or being capable. They have found out though that the passports in question were both stolen in Thailand and the two tickets associated with those passports were sequential proving they were bought at the same time and they have discovered that the two tickets were purchased by an Iranian. Then again these two could simply have been drug mules as stolen passports have been used in the past for that and the destination for the two tickets associated with the passports do fit with that scenario Thailand to China to Amsterdam.

What is craziest about the passports is that Interpol maintains a database of all reported stolen and/or lost passports that includes the 2 that were on this plane and as long as a country has the ability to connect to their network thru the internet the ability to check this database is free and it's available 24/7 which in essence means there is no great financial or technological barrier preventing any country's customs officials from checking this database and yet only a handful of countries actually do check it.

So if there is any conspiracy at play here it's that corporations are too cheap and countries are too lazy to do everything that they could do to keep people safe and prevent this sort of thing from happening.

 

[Midnite Toker]

Passenger and crew cell phones are still ringing????

 

[JuC]

think some people just don't realize how fucking BIG the world is and how deep oceans can be...
yes, we have a lot of technology but we still are ants on this planet.
people went to the moon but there's still a lot of stuff undiscovered on the earth - ecpecially in the oceans.
technology can fail and even if the exact position where the plane went down was known, it would take days to find it...
the search area on the pics is HUGE and it's ocean with streams and possibly kilometers deep water - if you went diving once, you know what that means...
but i like the LOST theory. better than 239 people dead...

 

[Lester Beans]

Godspeed Flight 370.

 

[Green lung]

This probably the only time when you do hope it is a highjacking.



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