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Warrahooyaargh posted:Edit: It still seems as if no confirmed debris has been found. Have the Malaysians just decided things have gone far enough and they want to scale down the search effort? It's not a wealthy country and it must be costing a fortune to try and locate the plane. You don't need confirmed debris nor an ulterior motive to conclude that everyone on that plane is dead and gone if they've been missing for the better part of a month with no trace.
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gradenko_2000 posted:You don't need confirmed debris nor an ulterior motive to conclude that everyone on that plane is dead and gone if they've been missing for the better part of a month with no trace. Fine. That was already 99.99999999999% clear after contact was lost. It's just completely arbitrary that they're now suddenly cutting it off. You're making this sound like doing it at this particular time and not any other is the epitome of reason.
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Well yeah, I agree that the way Malaysia did the announcement sucked and the timing seems arbitrary, I was just saying there doesn't have to be a deeper reason for it
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So do we know why the plane was flying off into the southern indian ocean?
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:So do we know why the plane was flying off into the southern indian ocean? Mangosteins
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gradenko_2000 posted:Well yeah, I agree that the way Malaysia did the announcement sucked and the timing seems arbitrary, I was just saying there doesn't have to be a deeper reason for it It's just funny to hear the bumbling government announce this "news" and see it getting treated as such.
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flavor posted:Fine. That was already 99.99999999999% clear after contact was lost. It's just completely arbitrary that they're now suddenly cutting it off. You're making this sound like doing it at this particular time and not any other is the epitome of reason. Yeah, that's what I was getting at. It's been obvious for a while the plane and everyone on it is long gone. The Malaysian Grand Prix is coming up soon, and I did read somewhere that the families were being moved out of hotel accommodation in Kuala Lumpur ahead of that. The announcement might be an attempt to get them to return home so they're not hanging around during the races and generally being a huge downer. Warrahooyaargh fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:So do we know why the plane was flying off into the southern indian ocean?
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If only the plane was Obamacare, then when it crashed and everyone would have known about it.
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Has anyone ever actually had a mangosteen, because if you get a fresh one they are really loving good
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pix or it didn't happen
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I don't really like most fruit, but I did eat mangosteen in Bali and found them quite nice.
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bonestructure posted:pix or it didn't happen text message disappeared over the indian ocean
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Mar 24, 2014 18:28
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eh gently caress it dude, let's just tell everyone it crashed in the ocean and go bowling
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Mar 24, 2014 18:32
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:So do we know why the plane was flying off into the southern indian ocean? Not that any of these Sherlocks have figured it out, but the pilot probably put something in the auto-pilot to make sure it didn't crash into any land just before he passed out.
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Mar 24, 2014 19:18
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Fox news: "B b but bad brown people terrorists right?"
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What's everyone so worked up about? So there's a missing plane -- big deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and what's ever left will be no bigger than a chihuahua's head.
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Warrahooyaargh posted:In Europe and North America these days, if a plane goes off course and stops talking to ATC it seems like the done thing is to send fighters up to have a look at it, but that didn't happen in this case (unless I've missed something). Don't they do that sort of thing in that part of the world, or was nobody paying attention? There are a few things to keep in mind. 1. The us has airbases all over the county, and the radar/air tracking facilities are orders of magnitude better than over the middle of the South Pacific/Indian ocean. 2. Fighters are quite restricted in their range, and investigating in most of the search area would mean a one-way trip, even with tanks topped up. 3. The areas it was possibly flying over are not exactly clearly defined airespaces (especially when you get closer to China) so tracking responsibility sometimes gets a little fuzzy.
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I think plane crashes are funny, really. I lol'ed out loud when I heard that all the passengers died! Infact I'm still laughing
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you can't fly a plane in water! i hope some bozo got fired for that blunder
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Rick Rickshaw posted:CBC is reporting the Chinese have found two objects, while CNN is reporting the Aussies have found two objects. They're finding each other looking for the objects just watch.
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Mar 24, 2014 19:48
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Someone should dump a load of plane parts into the search area in case the plane just needs a spare
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Good news, maybe this thread can vanish over night now.
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the real tragedy here is that now there wont be an Air Crash Investigations special episode starring Courtney Love and assorted redditors
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rocket_man38 posted:Fox news: "B b but bad brown people terrorists right?" Well yeah they are, but they had nothing to do with the plane disappearing.
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Tumble posted:there could still be people alive dont give up you guys. I'm holding out hope that the pilots created a solar powered plane and it's still flying around. They're going to land in a few weeks to praise and adulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFQVZ2h0V8 PS why don't we have nuclear powered/solar powered planes anyway? We have nuke submarines but nuclear planes would be a lot cleaner and could fly in perpetuity.
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A year from now there will be a History Channel or Discovery Channel expedition to the southern Indian Ocean to find the missing flight.
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Zogo posted:PS why don't we have nuclear powered/solar powered planes anyway? We have nuke submarines but nuclear planes would be a lot cleaner and could fly in perpetuity. It would be too heavy to include the needed shielding to allow humans on board. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
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Its gone guys.
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Blistex posted:There are a few things to keep in mind. Thanks, that makes sense.
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Tumble posted:there could still be people alive dont give up you guys.
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it's just a little seaborne its still good its still good
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Where's this new data they have? This is some a sweeping under the rug bull.
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spasticColon posted:A year from now there will be a History Channel or Discovery Channel expedition to the southern Indian Ocean to find the missing flight. No it will be BBC hosted by Richard Hammond.
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spasticColon posted:A year from now there will be a History Channel or Discovery Channel expedition to the southern Indian Ocean to find the missing flight. Like the history channel would spend money on this. They'll have alien guy talk for an hour or two and just film a boat in a lake pretending it is the Indian ocean.
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I'm just glad they finally (maybe) found the loving thing. It was like watching someone sight impaired playing the world's most morbid game of "Where's Waldo?" Plane crashes are horrible and scary and at least now the relatives can get on with grieving.
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Elphiem posted:Where's this new data they have? Pretty much the southern path is confirmed after pouring over the satellite data. That's it. No confirmed wreckage, just satellite data.
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Bolivar posted:What's a oval office-ry? Skipjack posted:the real tragedy here is that now there wont be an Air Crash Investigations special episode starring Courtney Love and assorted redditors The idea of Courtney turning her trainwreck into a plane crash is a fantasy I loathe having dashed.
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That DICK! posted:you can't fly a plane in water! i hope some bozo got fired for that blunder  Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure down there! How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? Well, it was built for air travel, so anywhere between zero and one.
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