Posted on 03/07/2014 9:28:46 PM PST by barmag25
UPDATE [12:37]: Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.
When contacted, Malaysia Airlines declined to confirm or deny the reports, saying that the Malaysian authorities are working together with the Vietnamese government on the matter.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reports that China has dispatched two maritime rescue ships to help locate the missing plane.
(Excerpt) Read more at my.news.yahoo.com ...
“The 777 had not had a fatal crash in its 19-year history until an Asiana Airlines plane crashed in San Francisco in July 2013. All 16 crew members survived, but three of the 291 passengers, all teenage girls from China, were killed.”
Yes, indeed - the infamous Capt. Sum Ting Wong allowed that plane to hit the seawall on short final/flare out. NOT the fault of the aircraft, as the article sort of implies. The Turd World Airline training was at fault, not the aircraft.
I forgot to note the most important fact regarding those passenger fatalities - they were run over by fire/rescue vehicles.
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