[AUJenn]

This is just too strange. In this day and age, I don't understand how a plane with 200+ people just "disappears."

More fuel for the conspiracy theorists, I guess...

[Lurker]

I don't understand how a plane with 200+ people just "disappears."

The Atlantic Ocean is an incredibly hostile place. If the plane broke up in flight doing 400 mph at altitude there wouldn't be many large pieces left, of anything.

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[Army Air Corps]

AF 447 ping.

[Army Air Corps]

Oceans are vast. The debris likely fell over a wide area. Most of the stuff in an airliner is denser than water and, therefore, will sink. The water there is deep. Very deep. Searchers would have to know the precise location of the aircraft when it broke-up in order to have a chance to locate debris in a timely manner.

[obamaisbad2009]

things are getting more interesting

[PGR88]

Or, they don’t want this plane to be found?

[BigCinBigD]

They are going to find this thing empty sitting out in the middle of nowhere New Mexico in a sand storm 50 years from now.

[Lmo56]

SOSUS should be able to triangulate the black box pings ...

[BILL_C]

More fuel for the conspiracy theorists, I guess...

I hate that word, theorist. In another case, it’s fact but you probably won’t even believe the obvious truth, the brain washing has been very effective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpHSyuueMU

[GOP Poet]

the whole thing is odd, odd, odd.

[DHC-2]

I don't understand how a plane disappears either ... my son's telephone has a gps built in ... where ever he is, I can follow his travels on IGoogle (he's a traveling salesman). If I can enjoy watching where my son is just for “fun” ... why the hell can't we know where the planes are at all times via gps even tho they are out of radar range? Something screwy here.