Posted on 03/07/2014 4:50:23 PM PST by BobNative
Edited on 03/07/2014 4:57:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people has lost contact with air traffic control and was still missing two hours after it was supposed to have landed in Beijing, the airline said Saturday morning.
The airline told NBC News that a search-and-rescue mission was under way but said it had no further information.
The flight from Kuala Lumpur, carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members, had been scheduled to land at 6:30 a.m. in Beijing (5:30 p.m. ET Friday).
If I recall the last thing on the voice recorder from an unknown person, likely pilot or co-pilot saying, "This is it, I love you Mom"
This is so confusing, so much different speculation, one says that the plane is over water, another says the plane landed
That’s interesting. It would certainly fit the flight projections I’ve seen. I haven’t heard the Uighur separatist group the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) claim anything and they haven’t been reluctant to do so in the past. Maybe just a tragic accident though how it happened is hard to speculate about.
Damn, I was hoping maybe a miracle had taken place and the plane had landed, now back to square one
wow if true....
Close. very close...but not exactly farm field, more like hilly cattle country. I used to drive a road that is nearby to the crash site fairly regularly, and there are not crops there. Just cattle.
There used to be a 'white' deer that hung around that area too, and just adjacent to the crash site, I had to avoid a legal buck (forked horn) on that road, a little after dark, after being empty handed on the last day of deer season. Coulda' had him with my '52 3/4 ton Chevy, but chose to stop laugh at myself and the foolish deer instead --and glad I did, for I wasn't aware of the crash site being right there until just now looking it up.
It makes me wonder about the white deer (the one I avoided that one night was normal). But if memory serves, there were TWO noticeably white deer --- but I would always see them (or just one of them) on the hillside East of the road, right along in that area, and nowhere else. I saw them often enough to always look for them to be there...
Landing there declared unlikley.
Sorry read the rest of your comment...Very unlikely that would ever be true as they would have just tracked it down and there would have been chatter with ATC...
Someone was blowin smoke...
@Hengshao90: @cctvnews #MH370 Okay this was false news. Reuters says no signal picked up from missing plane - Vietnam official http://t.co/fYYk0plmlR
Since the signal detected was over water, unless there is a debris field its going to take a while to locate this plane
Why is a two hour old article giving us more info than we have now?
OK I take that back, apparently there was no signal, ugh so confusing
Small world...It was many years ago and I was just going off memory...
Nice story...
There will be debris and they will find it...It’s a big plane and lots of items on board that will float +fuel slicks etc...
My guess is a bomb on board, or loss of elevator control for some mysterious reason.
A reasonable and useful first observation...
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