Posted on 12/29/2014 1:00:02 AM PST by House Atreides
An Indonesian official says objects have been spotted in the sea by an Australian search plane hunting for the missing AirAsia jet.
Jakarta's Air Force base commander Rear Marshal Dwi Putranto said he has been informed that an Australian Orion aircraft had detected suspicious objects near Nangka island, about 160 kilometres southwest of Pangkalan Bun, near central Kalimantan - 1120 kilometres from the location where the plane lost contact
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And here’s a link that shows a map where the “objects” were spotted. It appears to be pretty far from the last known location.
700 miles from where they lost contact, that’s about 75-90 minutes flight time. If that is the wreckage, something is amiss as the debris couldn’t have drifted too far in less than 24 hours. How could it have gotten there?. Kept flying with lost communications, then crashed, Massive decompression killing all and kept flying ala Paine Stewart? Hijacked?
Same MO as last time... set a false crash area...send everyone to look there while the real crash site is scrubbed.
So was there a large group of people on this flight from a high tech company like the last one?
Maybe they’ll find the wrong plane.
Maybe they’ll find Malaysian Airlines 370 this time.
I think you are right. This looks like another set of false rumours, and I am annoyed by Australia playing this role, again.
Heh, I was indeed thinking that, but it would also be not unlikely that they’ll find some of the millions of tons of stuff sunk or crashed during WWII.
Billion-ringgit treasure hunt in Malacca
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/04/14/Billionringgit-treasure-hunt-in-Malacca-Two-companies-given-permits-to-carry-out-excavation-work-on/
Morning,General McInerney!
I really hope they find this plane. Having 2 planes just disappear like this would be extremely creepy.
The chart in Post 2 is way off; replace the 700 miles with 70 miles, and you’ll be a lot closer.
The distances given in the report are rubbish, as the Java Sea is not even 250 miles across at this point.
Some things are just bad breaks. Some people for example could not believe Ron Brown's plane unintentionally crashed in the mountains near Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. I believe it. I've seen first hand what the Alpine Express as it is called by some in the Adriatic Sea can do. We had a storm his is while anchored outside Dubrovnik. Even with our radar capabilities on the carrier we had very limited advanced warning of a storm that slammed us and caused us to drag anchor.
It’s deja vu all over again.
Here we go again.
Yes, the world is a dangerous place. I remember the story of that tech guy, driving with his family somewhere out in the Pacific northwest. I believe it was Thanksgiving weekend and they got caught in a blizzard. He went to get help leaving his wife, toddler, and newborn behind.
I think it was his tech friends who realized they were missing and used some kind of cell phone triangulation to find them. My impression was that the authorities would have done nothing without extreme prodding from their friends. (Not the first time I’ve heard that.)
Sadly the man died but the wife and kids survived.
I remember hearing Curtis Sliwa talking about it and he said, as you did, that people had a hard time believing this could happen in the modern day. But that he had been out there at that time of year and you could turn a bend in the road and go from a beautiful, sunny day to a raging storm.
Eh, this is why I’ve always liked the concrete jungle best (even though I live in the suburbs now), the dangers are mostly human, which is at least something I understand.
That couple left the highway and took a “shortcut”. They put themselves in danger.
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Just hurry along as fast as you can and don’t never take no shortcuts - this is what one of the survivors of the Donner Party wrote to a friend years later, per some TV show I watched once.
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