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Malaysia Airlines Loses Contact With Flight Carrying 239
NBC ^ | March 7, 2014 | M. Alex Johnson and Sossy Dombourian

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).


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2014airlinercrash; airlines; autopilot; aviation; beijing; boeing; carrying; china; contact; flight; iran; islam; kualalumpur; loses; malaysia; malaysiaairlines; maldives; mh370; planecrash; radar; religionofpieces; vietnam; waronterror
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To: BeadCounter

Me too! I think they are all still “speculating”. Good Night!


261 posted on 03/07/2014 9:08:07 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: acoulterfan

As expected, debris has been spotted...


262 posted on 03/07/2014 9:10:10 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

now we have to wait and see if flyers start cancelling asian flights this week.I am pretty sure thousands are having second thoughts regarding flying in that part of the world for the next few weeks.


263 posted on 03/07/2014 9:13:38 PM PST by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: reaganaut

I still lend some credence to the report(s) specifying the locations in my first post.

I’m not so sure all Vietnamese officials are coordinated in real-time on this. So the info may take some time to disseminate.

Also the reports I read specified the potential crash location from multiple different locations on land. Ex. 153 miles south of Phu Quoc Island, 140 miles southwest of Ca Mau, and also 140 miles off the northeast coast of Malaysia. The reporting from multiple locations suggests to me multiple sources for the reports.

Also the triangulated location would be roughly 400-500 miles from Kuala Lumpur, which considering the loss of signal roughly 2 hours after takeoff would suggest the timeframe would coincide generally with the location.


264 posted on 03/07/2014 9:42:15 PM PST by fiftymegaton (God Bless and Protect America)
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To: ladyjane

I believe that story of the EgyptAir flight, like I believe the official version of what happened to TWA800. Not too much.


265 posted on 03/07/2014 10:03:04 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: BlackVeil

Vietnam media quoting Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat saying military radar recorded MH370 crashing into sea 153 miles south of Phu Quoc island.

Per Airliners


266 posted on 03/07/2014 10:23:50 PM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: tcrlaf
Vietnam media quoting Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat saying military radar recorded MH370 crashing into sea 153 miles south of Phu Quoc island.

Something bad happened in Vietnam. Many old Liberals/Socialists/Communists/Hippies will reflexively blame America.

267 posted on 03/07/2014 10:38:13 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: All

Additional Thread here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3130913/posts


268 posted on 03/07/2014 10:42:43 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: BobNative

https://malaysiaflyingherald.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/malaysia_airlines_boeing_777_9m-mrd.jpg?w=640&h=426


269 posted on 03/07/2014 11:37:43 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Sarah Barracuda

1 Ukranian on board? Putin really knows how to create a media diversion from his war, eh?


270 posted on 03/08/2014 12:29:41 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0

Data was lost only 41 minutes into the flight:

“An Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration 9M-MRO performing flight MH-370 from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (China) with 227 passengers and 12 crew, was enroute at FL350 about 120nm northeast of Kota Bharu (Malaysia) over the Gulf of Thailand in contact with Subang Center (Malaysia) just about to be handed off to Ho Chi Minh Air Traffic Control Center (Vietnam) when radar and radio contact was lost at about 01:22L (17:22Z Mar 7th). Subang Air Traffic Control Center officially told the airline at around 02:40L (18:40Z Mar 7th) that the aircraft was missing. The aircraft would have run out of fuel by now, there have been no reports of the aircraft turning up on any airport in the region.”

The crash site has not been located:

“In the afternoon local time an Admiral of the Vietnamese Navy was understood to indicate that the crash site of the aircraft has been located about 130nm south of the Vietnamese Island Tho Chau (110nm southwest of main land Ca Mau), the Navy later said that the admiral only referred to the position of last radio/radar contact with the aircraft, the aircraft has not yet been found.”

Additionally, a SAR message went out to search in the area of the IGARI waypoint.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiLh0L1CMAALcp-.jpg:large


271 posted on 03/08/2014 2:18:43 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: ltc8k6

IGARI:

http://www.fallingrain.com/waypoint/SN/IGARI.html


272 posted on 03/08/2014 2:19:51 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: ConservativeStatement

Megyn Kelly asked the same thing of someone else last night.


273 posted on 03/08/2014 3:32:32 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BobNative

Just turned on FoxNews this morning and catching up on the overnight developments.

They were interviewing aviation person, Scott Hamilton.

At the end of the interview, he was asked, based on the evidence/information so far, what he conjectured to have happened.

He said ‘some criminal action’.

Apparently, the plane lost contact about 2 hours into the flight but continued to fly for a while.


274 posted on 03/08/2014 6:10:33 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: BobNative; All

“For all communication to suddenly cease without a distress signal usually indicates a catastrophic failure of the aircraft , not allowing time for the crew to communicate either by radio or through the aircraft transponder. Modern airliners have multiple radios for voice communication and the transponder can be used to send signals that indicate different problems with the aircraft (for example a discrete code for hijacking).”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2014/03/08/malaysian-air-flight-mh370-how-can-a-boeing-777-aircraft-suddenly-lose-all-contact/


275 posted on 03/08/2014 6:28:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: TomGuy

Report that some passengers had stolen passports from Austria & Italy.

Given the timing so soon after the slashing attack in China, I hope the authorities look closely at terror as a possible cause.


276 posted on 03/08/2014 6:53:11 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: TomGuy
the plane lost contact about 2 hours into the flight but continued to fly for a while.

Wow .... odd that would be released. Big Huh?

277 posted on 03/08/2014 6:54:31 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals
See statement from this thread:

278 posted on 03/08/2014 7:38:51 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

Many conflicting / contradictory statements. Might take a while for everything to shake out.


279 posted on 03/08/2014 7:48:12 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: PghBaldy

Yep. Drudge has headlined a link to the story that there were two stolen passports on board, Italy and Austria, presumably being used by someone else.

It could be someone just stealing them and selling them for the money, but it certainly hints of terrorism.


280 posted on 03/08/2014 8:14:59 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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