Malaysia Airlines Loses Contact With Flight Carrying 239

NBC ^ | March 7, 2014 | M. Alex Johnson and Sossy Dombourian

[rdl6989]

Tonkin?

[Smokin' Joe]

Just wait until they get really serious with the toys they bought in Libya...(just a hunch)

[JimSEA]

I’ve noticed the concentration on security for Americans. I honestly believe they want to impress us with their security but they don’t want to discomfort other nationalities. However, at least in Thailand, they do look closely at young Middle Eastern males. Just the youth though.

[US_MilitaryRules]

That is misleading what you wrote. Approx 6 hr flight with 7.5 hrs of fuel on board.

[Semper911]

Of course GMA has to divide the passengers by race:

UPDATE: Malaysia Airlines says passengers on the missing airliner are from 13 different nationalities - http://t.co/DHJfzmFlGa— Good Morning America (@GMA) March 8, 2014

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

[Rome2000]

This sucks.

It was a Boeing and not an Airbus,so at least its not due to some French idiot playing with a joystick.

[txhurl]

MANPAD launched from boat? Our weather sats alone can see the signatures of things like this near the surface.

[TomGuy]

Misleading?

Copied exactly from the CNN website.

That is why I put it in quotes.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I wonder if perhaps North Korea could be involved here

[longfellowsmuse]

Far away from North Korea…and their missiles don’t work that well….yet.

[Sarah Barracuda]

True, but it might have been someone with a sophisticated launcher, either way, sad for the victims, most likely they are all deceased if the plane did crash, which it seems like it probably did

[OldNewYork]

Prayers for all on board.

[virgil]

I don’t know why NK would involve itself. What’s your thinking?

[cookcounty]

"If it crashed on land, they may have found the wreckage by now.

It crashed during the night. The sun has been up there for just an hour or two.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Wasn’t actually my idea, but it was floating around on twitter, some were speculating they might be involved

[dragnet2]

Anybody claiming credit yet?

[US_MilitaryRules]

Yes, but not the reason for the crash. CNN is saying as of this time it would be out of fuel. It can’t stay up forever!

[txhurl]

MANPADS distributed against anti-West forces?

[Semper911]

Occam's Razor says it was probably something simpler. But it was sudden and catastrophic. Underwear bomb, shoe bomb, center fuel tank (uh huh).

No mayday call, nothing.