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.
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Shades of Air France 447 a few years back. At the time I think we were almost all thinking about a terrorist bomb, and in the end it wound up being a frozen pitot tube compounded by pilot error.
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Every year at least one commercial airline flight crashes. That’s still an enviable safety record.
It is amazing when you think that 24/7, every moment 50,000 planes are in the air, all over the globe.
That means there are about 500,000 people in the air at any moment!
Many of these flights are cargo planes, so my estimate is conservative...
50,000 X 10 = 500,000.
Other estimates would be higher. I tried to find data on number of passengers, and I found one hat aid the major US airlines have, on average, 120 passengers per flight. I reduced my number for small planes, cargo planes and military aircraft.
Still, we have a city of people airborne at any moment, globally!
I would not rule out weather yet. While not the most likely cause of airframe failure, weather can kill a jet liner. Just the other day an airliner encounter clear weather turbulence that injured several passengers. The pilot on yesterday’s flight had 18,000+ hours so he was very good. But perhaps, like the doomed Air France plane, the copilot was in control while the pilot was elsewhere taking a break when bad weather struck.
I remember. A friend was in the rescue/recovery party.
found one that had...
Bloody touch screen typing.
16 years wishing Free Republic had an edit function.
“Plane crashes happen”
What is amazing is how rare they are anymore.
I’m no MIHOP nutjob, but what you say is true so it begs the question: how were the victims of 911 able to make such calls from their respective planes? Over 10 years ago no less. I must admit that’s one question to which I’ve never heard a definitive answer.
While most airline crashes happen during or shortly after takeoff or during a landing or because of bad weather, it is not impossible or out of the question to suffer a sudden and catastrophic failure of some kind at altitude and or combined with pilot error (see Air France Flight 447).
Aside from a sudden failure of the electrical systems, Im also thinking of some sort of a rapid depressurization due to a failure of the integrity of the plane, i.e. metal fatigue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_781
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243
While it is way too early to rule out any cause including terrorism, Im not about to jump on a plane crashed ; it must be an act of terrorism bandwagon.
Is Phu Quoc near Lon Gwan or Phuc Que?
Altitude, 911 flights had just taken off. Leave your cell phone on next time you fly and see when the signal drops off. But at 35,000 feet no cell phone signal will reach a ground tower unassisted.
Scott Hamilton, guess on Fox News said he leans towards a “criminal act”.
Manpads can’t reach an airplane at 35,000. Or are you referring to the center fuel tank explosion, story?
Pentagon, they were WELL within cell tower limits. Probably same with tower planes. No mystery here.
One person was flying on an Italian stolen passport...so you definitely cant rule out criminal act.
Not true for the one which crashed in Pennsylvania.
Or, be fired without lighting up the sky for miles around.
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