Plane missing with 236 people on board

[freakiness]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-08/malaysia-airlines-lost-contact-with-plane/5307888

Malaysia Airlines says one of its planes has gone missing on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

A statement from the airline says flight MH370 lost contact with air traffic controllers at 2:40am local time, just over two hours into the flight.

The plane, a Boeing 777-200, left Kuala Lumpur at 12:41am on Saturday, and had been due to arrive in Beijing at 6:30am local time.

The company says the plane was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members.

The airline says it is contacting the next-of-kin of all passengers and crew, which includes people of 13 different nationalities.

In a statement on the airline's website, group chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the airline was working with authorities to locate the aircraft.

"Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilise its full support," the statement said.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected passengers and crew and their family members."

The airline says it will provide regular updates on its website.

The ABC understand Malaysia Airlines will hold a press conference on the incident shortly.

[freakiness]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

 answering freaky...."The US have satellite surveillance in the area and can't find any trace of an explosion as yet, according to numerous reports I've read."

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...and we believe everything we read.

...and even if they did find something they will immediately report it to us via the media. Right.

Whew! ....i am sooo relieved.

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Did I say they would report and I did I say I believe everything they report?

No, I said according to numerous reports.

[acacia_pycnantha]

....what is most disturbing is how the media is really 'pumping' through details and storylines about the false passports passengers.....like this is a really unusual/suspicious/disturbing detail-which it is not. Planes are daily filled with scores of passengers bearing false passports.

In the absence of other news or information the media churns over what it has and sometimes even makes its own news.

[fourandsixpants]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-plane-scenarios/

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Fact: So far, no debris field of plane wreckage has been linked to the 777, which would indicate a bomb blast.

Analysis: When Robert Francis, former vice chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, heard about the missing plane, his immediate thought was: "For some reason the aircraft blew up and there was no signal, there was nothing." The fact that the plane disappeared from radar without warning indicated to Francis "there was something unprecedented that hasn't happened before."

What about satellite technology? Is it possible that data from orbiting satellites might show a flash or infrared heat signature from an explosion? Very unlikely, says satellite expert Brian Weeden, who spent years tracking space junk in orbit for the U.S. Air Force. Dozens of government and private satellites orbit the earth, looking down from distances from 300 kilometers to 1,500 kilometers (185 to 930 miles). It's a long shot that one of them coincidentally floated over at the exact right time and location to capture a flash from an explosion.

However, there's an "off chance," Weeden says, that a super secret U.S. government satellite orbiting 22,000 miles in space might have grabbed evidence. These satellites are in geosynchronous orbit. As a group, they can observe virtually the entire globe. "We know that their mission is to detect ballistic missile launches via heat," says Weeden, now a technical adviser for Secure World Foundation. "We don't know if they're sensitive enough to track something like a bomb blast, even if that's what happened."

Then there's another unanswerable question: Would the government hesitate to release such an image for fear of revealing the satellite system's ultraclassified capability?"

and N.B......"because "there are lots of stolen passports" used by travelers around the world."

.....watch this space : scenario..... in the next day or two 'a' black box will 'resurface' that will be 'faulty'......some sort of unidentified debris will also be shown to the media etc etc. To shut everyone up and console the poor family members and friends.

[nevynreally]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

....what is most disturbing is how the media is really 'pumping' through details and storylines about the false passports passengers.....like this is a really unusual/suspicious/disturbing detail-which it is not. Planes are daily filled with scores of passengers bearing false passports.

My suspicions are raised about the 'missing' plane, passengers, debris and 'no trace' stance being adopted.....

................more like, 'no details' are being given.Why?

Questions questions questions and more suspicions.

Looks like there are a couple of govt appointed i/net offcrs on duty tonight-specifically designated to this issue and related discussions.

.....why?

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Going way out there. I don't know what the go is with this plane. The false passport thing I think is too easy.Doesn't explain what happened to the plane. They just don't disappear.

[acacia_pycnantha]

It's alien abduction. Where's our ufo expert, he'll back me up.

[fourandsixpants]

replying to ac who said: 'It's alien abduction. Where's our ufo expert, he'll back me up."

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if all else fails you tried this, hey?! http://gal.patheticcockroach.com/pyramid-of-denial

re. 2nd lowest yellow 'band' ...Source Derogation:, insulting the source, dismissing his or her expertise or trustworthiness or otherwise rejecting his or her validity (such as ad hominen attack, ridicule or insult).

...seems to cover your reply/attack/ridicule of nevyn....and again, we should ask 'why' do you do this.

I know why.

[fourandsixpants]

reply to nevryn:

found this http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/08/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-jet-missing/index.html?iid=article_si...

..."How can a Boeing 777-200ER passenger jet go missingfor more than a day? Turns out, it's not so easy.

That's not just because the state-of-the-art jetliner has a wing span of nearly 200 feet and a length of more than 209 feet. It's also because it's bristling with communications gear, including radios, automatic beacons, GPS and computer communications systems, according to CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest.

In addition to carrying UHF and VHF radios, the planes -- which cost more than $250 million apiece -- are equipped with Aircraft Communications and Reporting System technology. Embedded in the plane's computers, it tells the airline how the aircraft is performing -- speed, fuel, thrust. "If anything fails, it will send a signal to Malaysia Airlines," Quest said....

...................http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/forums/replypage/board-id/2500000007/message-id/296162

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"If you have a high-altitude pressurization problem, catastrophic decompression, the time of useful consciousness (the time a pilot can operate with an insufficient oxygen supply) in the 30,000-40,000-feet range is a matter of seconds."................

"That plane has many different ways to locate it: Automatic beacons that tell you where it is; there are several ways to contact it both with radios and GPS, as well as computer communications within the cockpit..........."

"But the lack of communication suggests that something most unfortunate has happened"

[acacia_pycnantha]

If you know why then please tell me because i really have no idea what you are talking about.

[fourandsixpants]

of course not Dear

[acacia_pycnantha]

I really don't know how to reply to you. I made a flippant remark and you construe it as a personal attack on another poster?

I think you should post in the thread "What are you?"

(I've never liked this smiley above, it's supposed to express laughter out loud, but somehow there's a sense of menace about it to my mind. no menace intended, of course)