Big passenger jet may have gone down

• Midstate01

  

  According to both articles I just read, only 3 Americans.
  
  Good news is it doesn't sound like terrorism was a cause.
  
  Still doesn't make a lot of sense that nothing was heard from the plane if it had an oil leak some some think.
• steubbigred

  I would not be surprised if this were a hijacking. A stolen passport has been identified as being brought aboard for one thing. No communication that we have heard from as of yet . Communist Vietnam may have brought this jet down with the good graces of China. I wonder what Jesse Ventura is thinking.
• bases_loaded

  

  Midstate01;1588071 wrote:According to both articles I just read, only 3 Americans.
  
  Good news is it doesn't sound like terrorism was a cause.
  
  Still doesn't make a lot of sense that nothing was heard from the plane if it had an oil leak some some think.

  
  Are you confusing the oil spots in the ocean with a cause of crash?
• SportsAndLady

  

  Midstate01;1588071 wrote:According to both articles I just read, only 3 Americans.
  
  Good news is it doesn't sound like terrorism was a cause.
  
  Still doesn't make a lot of sense that nothing was heard from the plane if it had an oil leak some some think.

  Why doesn't it sound like terrorists?
• Midstate01

  

  SportsAndLady;1588082 wrote:Why doesn't it sound like terrorists?

  I was reading that for now officials don't seem to think it was a terrorist attack. Of course that could change and may change many times.
  
  
  The oil spots were where I saw they were focusing their search and thought it could have been where the plane was dumping oil. No idea what all that means though.
• Midstate01

  

  bases_loaded;1588078 wrote:Are you confusing the oil spots in the ocean with a cause of crash?

  Not really as a cause. More so as a clue. Hopefully.
• Mulva

  

  rydawg5;1588032 wrote:What's the public's ratio to caring about death? 1 American = 100 "foreigners"? -- If the plane goes down and 300 non-Americans die, that is just a headline, but if 3 Americans are apart of that, it's a national tragedy?
  
  Damn.. we are very much a superior race in the eyes of the public. Didn't know that was still a thing. People dying should "hit home", dare I say, even when zero Americans are the victims..
  
  Prayers go out to all, even those non-american families.

  The American race, huh?
• Tiernan

  The survivors could be on a small island with a strange magnetic core that has an existing group of inhabitants from a Neo Utopia Civilization experiment gone wrong.
• bases_loaded

  

  If it was terrorism. Someone would've claimed it no? Isn't that the point?
• dlazz

  SportsAndLady;1588029 wrote:Id prefer we talk about updates of the situation not politard bullshit that 90% of people don't give a shit about at this moment.

  Belly35;1588063 wrote:. You stupid fuck the asshole on vacation he doesn't care about four more dead Americans

  LOL
• Pick6

  

  havent had time to do any reading on this, but can someone explain the stolen passport thing? 1) How do you get on with a passport that isn't yours and 2) how do you not identify the stolen passports until after the fact?
• Tiernan

  My guess is Malaysian Air Travel security isn't exactly the toughest system to pull shit over on. As long as you have the three chickens and a goat airfare you can pretty much get on the plane.
• QuakerOats

  Airline CEO said no distress signal, so it had to be sudden and catastrophic.
  
  The 2 oil slicks are indicative of each fuel tank having broken apart on impact.
  
  
  Jet airliners don't just accidentally blow up ..................... and neither did TWA 800.
• Sonofanump

  Tiernan;1588097 wrote:The survivors could be on a small island with a strange magnetic core that has an existing group of inhabitants from a Neo Utopia Civilization experiment gone wrong.

  Crap! I had the same thought as Rockne. FML.
• Tiernan

  Whoever the fuck Rockne is...but if you had the same thought I did on anything it would be a huge step forward for you.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Pick6;1588108 wrote:havent had time to do any reading on this, but can someone explain the stolen passport thing? 1) How do you get on with a passport that isn't yours and 2) how do you not identify the stolen passports until after the fact?

  Yes, this is very disconcerting. It would seem that once you report a passport stolen the barcode would be flagged - I suppose there are ways to get around that but if they knew it was stolen now, why not know it at the airport? KL and Malaysian Airlines aren't third world cities and businesses. No one will confuse them with Cathay or SingAir but they've enjoyed solid reputations.
• IggyPride00

  

  It is complete craziness to think in today's world with all the electronics and tracking and such we have now that a plane this size could literally almost vanish as it has without a trace.
  
  Outside of the stolen passport thing they don't seem to have a clue still.
• ts1227

  

  Tiernan;1588111 wrote:My guess is Malaysian Air Travel security isn't exactly the toughest system to pull shit over on. As long as you have the three chickens and a goat airfare you can pretty much get on the plane.

  Pretty much, stolen passports are basically a normal occurrence, they likely have zero to do with this plane going down.
  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/09/stolen-passports-malaysia-flight/6230767/
• wildcats20

  

  The oil slicks they found not related to the plane.
• Mohican00

  

  wildcats20;1588486 wrote:The oil slicks they found not related to the plane.

  So we aliens yet?
• thavoice

  Almost think it would be suicide by the pilot at this point.
  
  Stolen passports can be used for many things so it may or may not have had anything to do with it.
• bases_loaded

  

  Wouldn't there be quite a lot of debris if the whole plane impacted the ocean as one?
• fish82

  

  bases_loaded;1588535 wrote:Wouldn't there be quite a lot of debris if the whole plane impacted the ocean as one?

  Even if it disintegrated at 35,000 feet, there would still be a ton of debris floating in the water.
• thavoice

  fish82;1588539 wrote:Even if it disintegrated at 35,000 feet, there would still be a ton of debris floating in the water.

  but it would have been very spread out and difficult to find.
• Belly35

  

  I'm think this plane when down over land .... I'm no expert just a feeling