Boeing Source: Missing Plane in Pakistan

Lignet ^ | March 17, 2014, 5:30 p.m. |

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

No worries.. America has it's best eyes scouring our recon satellite imagery for this aircraft:

[McGruff]

In order to get to Pakistan it would have to fly over or around India.

Seems hard to believe.

[onyx]

IIRC, General Thomas McInerney (Retired) said this it was in Pakiastan on the first or second day.

[bigbob]

slit the throats of a few passengers and I’ll bet no one would dare try to hang onto their phone.

I’ve wondered if the ELINT surveillance planes have been listening for any signals on the frequencies used by mobile devices, just on the chance that a whole sackful of ‘em got thrown overboard. However the odds of surviving a landing on water or land and still having any battery power by now are zero.

[maggief]

Of interest.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303563304579445202957835142?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303563304579445202957835142.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

Lack of Useful Radar Exposes Defense Weakness

[livius]

Well, since they were harboring Bin Laden...with apparently the knowledge of many people in their military...I wouldn’t put anything beyond them.

I don’t know a thing about flying, but from what I have read here, the plane really doesn’t need that long a runway. If you’re concerned about the passengers’ comfort, yes; but these passengers were either dead or more worried about survival than comfort, and I doubt that the pilot (who I think was the co-pilot) cared about either one. It’s harder to take off from a short runway, but evidently that can be done too.

I have seen many writers (who have to know more than I do!) say that Pakistan is worth considering, as well as the many other ‘Stans.

Don’t forget that Pakistan is a nuclear state.

[tanknetter]

gonna need a really LONG runway - I doubt dirt is gonna do

Depends on whether there's anything along the lines of the dry lakes at places like White Sands, Groom and Edwards where the plane went to.

Remember that they wouldn't really be looking at operating the aircraft from any such place on a routine basis. They'd land it, refuel and put whatever equipment/people/explosives they wanted to on board and then fly it out again to it's ultimate destination.

Also keep in mind that the landing and take-off distances being given are those within normal parameters for the aircraft, under the assumption that the intent is to maximize service life of the airframe and engines. If there's no intent to do such (ie the aircraft is going on a one-way trip), then the equipment can be pushed well-past it's established maximums/minimums.

For reference see post #64 in This FR thread which talks about a 737 (although it's quoted as being a 747) forced to dead-stick on a levee at NASA's Michaud Assembly Facility. To quote: "It turns out that an empty, lightly fueled, STRIPPED 747 (sic) can manage a takeoff roll in about 500 feet on emergency engine thrust"

[bigbob]

Hey, our ImPotus has good pals in Pock-ee-stahn, maybe he could just call ‘em up and ax ‘em?

[onyx]

LOL.
Thank you for the LOL.

[House Atreides]

“Different sources keep saying it landed, but there is a contingent of FReepers that insist it crashed into the ocean without a trace of debris or other evidence.”
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What goes MOST against an ocean crash or ditching is the fact that none of the robust (i.e., designed to survive the severest crash) “locator beacons” deployed and begin transmitting.

[Jim Noble]

I’ve been saying for days that they should check Abbottabad - I hear there’s a big empty field near the military academy.

And if they are picking up a nuke, Pakistan is the place. The Norks and the Persians are just screwing around - Pakistan has real, big, hydrogen bombs.

[RummyChick]

Any chance that a country has developed stealth technology that could have hid it from radar?

[clintonh8r]

Everybody on the plane had a cell phone?

[berdie]

later

[Milton Miteybad]

. . . Pakistan dismissed the idea that a Boeing 777 could land undetected inside the country but promised to work with the Malaysian government in its search for the missing plane . . .

This would be the same Pakistan that insisted that Osama bin Ladin couldn't be hiding within its borders, right?

[mark3681]

“I am strongly in the camp that believes that I don’t know what happened with the plane.”

I got here about 4 days ago. You forgot to bring beer!

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ a Boeing 777 requires a lengthy, 7,500-foot runway,” <<

BS!
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[cherry]

they all know where that plane is....you can’t move a muscle anymore without somebody watching you....with the satelite coverage and the drone coverage a large plane just does not go “missing”....

[dfwgator]

Everybody on the plane had a cell phone?

"We all have cell phones, so come on, let's get real."