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Old 10 March 2014, 11:11 PM
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Malaysian government is not clever enough to cover anything up - epic ****-ups are more their thing.

Aside from having to traverse multiple foreign airspaces - would there have been enough fuel to make it to one of the "*stans"? Could the aircraft be safely down in a desert somewhere miles from no-where - Surely though there are systems in place to locate hijacked aircraft in such circumstances.
Old 10 March 2014, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by tarmac terror
Surely though there are systems in place to locate hijacked aircraft in such circumstances.
Thought that's what black boxes were for?

Speaking of which, aren't these black boxes supposedly trackable in these sort of events?
Old 10 March 2014, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by tarmac terror
Malaysian government is not clever enough to cover anything up - epic ****-ups are more their thing.
Agreed, but if it was aliens i think other governments like the US would get involved pretty sharpish Of course I don't really think for 1 second that it is aliens, but this is passing the day.
Old 11 March 2014, 12:25 AM
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Was there any big shot travelling in that aircraft? Any international rivalries, ransom case, or another terrorist act? Just trying to work out why someone would want to hijack that plane.

I really do hope they find its whereabouts, what happened to it etc. soon. One can only imagine the pain of the passengers' relatives.
Old 11 March 2014, 11:37 AM
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Search area moved to around 500 miles west of first search area and last know position..... very odd.

About 1 hours flight time - so lots of time to get out pan / mayday or change transponder number as a min.

Also well off planned course by about 200 degrees! Aircraft would not have flown there even on its own - it would have carried on to its next waypoint which was on a rough north bearing - where as the aircraft now seems to have flown south west...

Gets stranger and stranger.
Old 11 March 2014, 01:18 PM
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Relatives are apparently pleading with authorities to track mobile signals as passenger cell phones are still ringing when called. Very strange.
Old 11 March 2014, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by daviee
Relatives are apparently pleading with authorities to track mobile signals as passenger cell phones are still ringing when called. Very strange.
Link? Source?
Old 11 March 2014, 01:36 PM
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Had enough fuel for c.9 hours flight remaining after contact lost.
Enough to get it as far as Oz in the east or Pakistan in the west - or anywhere between.
Old 11 March 2014, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Link? Source?
same one that keeps reporting micheal schumachers condition id say.
Old 11 March 2014, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Link? Source?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...es-active.html

Of course its the Daily Fail so take with pinch of salt! But still....
Old 11 March 2014, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Link? Source?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ght-MH370.html
Old 11 March 2014, 01:40 PM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...d06_story.html
Old 11 March 2014, 02:19 PM
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Have they checked inside Clarkson's ego, it is big enough and he has been in the area recently
Old 11 March 2014, 02:27 PM
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How reliable is this? Radar playback from flight radar24.



I am sure that they know what has happened, they just aren't telling anyone yet!
Old 11 March 2014, 02:51 PM
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Media blackout.... I bet it's landed on terrafirma and is either being held by captors or something along those lines.


2 Iranians with stolen passports on board a missing plane is not just a coincidence....
Old 11 March 2014, 02:52 PM
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Or it's going to end up on on that programme on the Discovery channel: Airplane Repo...
Old 11 March 2014, 03:07 PM
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Maybe it's another case of Stolen aeroplanes.

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-o...371187/?no-ist
Old 11 March 2014, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by billythekid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...es-active.html

Of course its the Daily Fail so take with pinch of salt! But still....
Sorry shoud have stipulated a reliable source

Originally Posted by ReallyReallyGoodMeat
Hmmmm, if this is true then I am starting to come round to they know more than they are telling us!

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Old 11 March 2014, 05:06 PM
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I just heard on sky new that the transponder can be turned off manually by the cabin crew which I find shocking and also strengthens the theorie than the plane is hi jacked.
Old 11 March 2014, 05:55 PM
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Pilot suicide a possibility, a la EA990 ?


These poor families need some closure.
Old 11 March 2014, 07:39 PM
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Isn't it possible now to use satellites to map/photograph an area sea accuracy down to metres??
Old 11 March 2014, 08:14 PM
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We'll be going to war somewhere for some ££££ as a result of this, just let the ????? Finish off their plan
Old 11 March 2014, 08:53 PM
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there now saying the plane was miles off course when last spotted and also the pilot was abit of a tool letting girls sit in the cockpit on flights etc
Old 11 March 2014, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by angel1368
there now saying the plane was miles off course when last spotted and also the pilot was abit of a tool letting girls sit in the cockpit on flights etc
Ever get the feeling you're being bullsh1tted?
Old 11 March 2014, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by angel1368
there now saying the plane was miles off course when last spotted and also the pilot was abit of a tool letting girls sit in the cockpit on flights etc
the old "come on sit on my lap" routine

"just grip that joystick a little harder would you sweetie"

mmmm, the plot thickens
Old 11 March 2014, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2
the old "come on sit on my lap" routine

"just grip that joystick a little harder would you sweetie"

mmmm, the pilot thickens

Efa
Old 11 March 2014, 09:11 PM
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Hodgy and zippy, that could be the reason why that room is called a cockpit instead of sandpit, aeroplane driving pit or even Brad Pit, innit.
Old 11 March 2014, 09:22 PM
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And why blonde air hostess' have black boxes...
Old 11 March 2014, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Ever get the feeling you're being bullsh1tted?
yes could be right i just read it here
http://news.sky.com/story/1224215/ma...ssing-co-pilot
Old 11 March 2014, 09:32 PM
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actually on a serious note (and thank you Zip - very good, i did see the i in plot - but somehow missed the "thickens" bit - v good)

this has tought us all two things

1.It is the fact that that the world is actually a bigger place that one assumes (with the internet and ubiquitous communications etc etc it seems that everything has condensed)

But in reality vast tracts of the world’s oceans have never been set upon by human eyes

2. The farce we go through in terms of airport security is simply ignored outside of Europe America and Israel


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