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Big passenger jet may have gone down

  • Laley23
    SnotBubbles;1589953 wrote:TMZ with a mind blowing discovery! Surely no one thought 4 days later to check cell phone towers!!!

    TMZ should just go somewhere and die.
    TMZ breaks more stories than anyone out there. And no, I dont mean just the fluff bullshit they put out daily.
  • thavoice
    Nah, wont work.

    Everyone has their phone off on planes...
  • Zoltan
    People tend to confuse what TMZ reports on (usually gossip garbage), with how well they report on it (they are very good).
  • Laley23
    Zoltan;1590013 wrote:People tend to confuse what TMZ reports on (usually gossip garbage), with how well they report on it (they are very good).
    Yep. I would put them and Deadspin up against any outlet reporting right now. When the dedicate their best people to a real story, they are the best and seem to have the best sources.
  • QuakerOats
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579955/No-wreckage-no-cracks-fuselage-no-secret-engine-data-Clueless-airline-officials-rule-EVERY-new-crash-theory-going-come-REAL-information.html
  • Tiernan
    US Navy heading towards eastern India, this is getting good now.
  • Mohican00
    http://gawker.com/flight-370-soared-above-45-000-feet-after-vanishing-re-1544098719
    An Asia-based pilot of a Boeing 777-200, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, said an ascent above the plane's service limit of 43,100 feet, along with a depressurized cabin, could have rendered the passengers and crew unconscious, and could be a deliberate maneuver by a pilot or hijacker.
  • bases_loaded
    http://vietnam.craigslist.org/for/4372477162.html
  • gut
    The problem with the "stolen plane" scenario is you'd need a private airport (or bribe/intimidate a whole lot of people) with a big enough runway to land (and, at some point, takeoff) a 777.

    And that one article said the altitude data is from the engines, not radar, and is not reliable. If a hijacker just wanted to bring the plane down, there's really no need to ascend like that to "render everyone unconscious".
  • Trueblue23
    Confirmed hijacking
  • Midstate01
    Trueblue23;1590680 wrote:Confirmed hijacking
    This is going to get crazy I think.
  • gut
    Midstate01;1590687 wrote:This is going to get crazy I think.
    Sounds like a weak case. Very sad that this might give families false hope.

    To call it a "confirmed hijacking" sounds like more than a stretch.
  • Mohican00
    gut;1590690 wrote:Sounds like a weak case. Very sad that this might give families false hope.

    To call it a "confirmed hijacking" sounds like more than a stretch.
    Instead of just posting your opinion (which no one really cares about), how about posting something newsworthy related to the issue?

    It'd be far more compelling than just shitting on every update that comes along
  • gut
    Mohican00;1590696 wrote: It'd be far more compelling than just shitting on every update that comes along
    The "updates" are shit speculation, but that would assume the reader has a brain. This is looking increasingly like a govt covering its ass.

    You can read the links posted. To say the "confirmed hijacking" is a stretch ("confirmed" would indicate proof, of which there is none) is readily obvious from the facts (or lack thereof) of the very article linked. The plane may have very well been hijacked, but the article linked would suggest it was landed somewhere and, thus, the passengers are still alive. There is 0 evidence or basis for that.
  • sleeper
    It's not a confirmed hijacking. It's still speculation.
  • gut
    sleeper;1590699 wrote:It's not a confirmed hijacking. It's still speculation.
    LINK LINK LINK??!?!?!!?!?!?

    EVERYTHING in this thread is speculation. Nobody knows what happened to that plane. Well, somebody might but nobody reporting has any proof of it. Although more than a few of the theories defy credulity.
  • Mohican00
    gut;1590697 wrote:The "updates" are shit speculation, but that would assume the reader has a brain. This is looking increasingly like a govt covering its ass.
    Link?
  • -Society-
    Trueblue23;1587949 wrote:Just broke on Twitter, the plane crashed into the ocean.
    Trueblue23;1587954 wrote:It was reported by the Vietnam Navy
    Trueblue23;1590680 wrote:Confirmed hijacking
    Is this "confirmed hijacking" from the same source? LOL!
  • SportsAndLady
    Malaysian investigator denies the hijacking claim

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10699933/Missing-Malaysia-Airlines-flight-MH370-investigator-denies-claim-plane-was-hijacked.html
  • fish82
    Random Malaysian official states it's "conclusive" that the bird was hijacked.

    http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/03/15/malaysian-official-it-is-conclusive-someone-hijacked-missing-jet/

    IMO, the only thing we know for sure at this point is that the Malaysians have no clue what the fuck they're doing.
  • vball10set
    fish82;1590713 wrote:
    IMO, the only thing we know for sure at this point is that the Malaysians have no clue what the fuck they're doing.
    lol, I've thought this pretty much all along
  • reclegend22
    It's a frat party atmosphere in most newsrooms right now. They are eating this shit up. Ratings gold.

    Honestly, I can't get enough of it, and aside from basketball, it's the only thing I've watched the past several days. I have about nine or 10 shows dedicated to this airplane DVR'd since last night and watching them now. This is ratings gold. That's sad, in a way, but it's the culture we have created. The mystery of it all is incredible.
  • SportsAndLady
    reclegend22;1590735 wrote:It's a frat party atmosphere in most newsrooms right now. They are eating this shit up. Ratings gold.

    Honestly, I can't get enough of it, and aside from basketball, it's the only thing I've watched the past several days. I have about nine or 10 shows dedicated to this airplane DVR'd since last night and watching them now. This is ratings gold. That's sad, in a way, but it's the culture we have created. The mystery of it all is incredible.
    Yeah it's pretty incredible how crazy a story this is. I mean, a missing person, okay happens all the time. A missing family, weird but happens. Some important documents missing? Okay. But a missing plane!?

    In this day and age of constant contact, constant records, millions of eyes looking up, cameras, videos, all this social media, google maps, different navigation services, and no one can find a fucking airplane!?

    Something wild must have happened. That plane didn't just explode in midair.
  • reclegend22
    SportsAndLady;1590740 wrote:Yeah it's pretty incredible how crazy a story this is. I mean, a missing person, okay happens all the time. A missing family, weird but happens. Some important documents missing? Okay. But a missing plane!?

    In this day and age of constant contact, constant records, millions of eyes looking up, cameras, videos, all this social media, google maps, different navigation services, and no one can find a fucking airplane!?

    Something wild must have happened. That plane didn't just explode in midair.
    Exactly. Prior to Malaysian Air Flight 370, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart's twin-engine in the 1930s was the most famous unsolved mystery in the history of aviation. This is a Boeing 777 jumbo jet with 227 passengers and crew on board and nobody has seen it for eight days.

    As a big fan of mysteries, I hope they never find it. I know that's horrible lol, but this mystery is just too good. I can't remember being this engrossed in a story since at least as far back as 9/11.
  • reclegend22
    I do think we'll end up finding the plane on land, though. That's just my own speculation, but as S&L said, it's highly unlikely from my perspective as somebody who knows nothing about airplanes that it could have just exploded mid-air. This is probably a hijacking of some sort related in some way to terrorism or some other nefarious activity. If that does turn out the case, then it was the greatest crime ever committed. The perfect heist. And you can expect a Captain Phillips-like movie to made about it in the future. This story really is better than fiction.