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).
Pic of previous damage described in previous post:
http://pic.feeyo.com/posts/569/5691311.html#5691316
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Good find.
BEIJING (AP) — Vietnamese media reported that authorities have detected signals from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight off the southwestern coast of Vietnam on Saturday, hours after the flight went missing during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Website VN Express said a Vietnamese search and rescue official reported that the signals were detected from about 120 nautical miles (140 miles; 225 kilometers) southwest of Vietnam’s southernmost Ca Mau province.
From Fox:
The plane’s first officer is Fariq Ab.Hamid, a 27-year-old who joined the airline in 2007. Both are Malaysians.
Per Reuters no signal has been picked up:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/malaysia-airlines-missing-vietnam-idUSL3N0M505Z20140308
Wow....From 2012...If it's indeed the same aircraft, that could be significant.
The crash -- not so much.
From what I just read it was estimated the speed was 770 mph at impact. A full power nose dive...with those in the area hearing the aircraft break the sound barrier.
I've had people that were living in that part of SLO County tell me they heard the sonic boom, with one guy telling me he heard the aircraft go into a dive, or heard it going by before the 'boom' -- but some miles South of the wreck, from the valley to that direction.
Possibly --- he had never heard a sonic boom at that low an elevation, I dunno. But the next time I get a chance to speak with that person, I'll see if I can jog his memory. Personally, myself, my first time in that area (other than just passing through when just a child, riding along in the family station wagon, some time in the 1960's) wasn't until about seven months or so after the crash.
I love flight aware.
It is one of the most educational, informative, useful and entertaining sites on the internet!
rdl6989 to Cruz_West_Paul2016
My guess is a bomb on board, or loss of elevator control for some mysterious reason.
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kinda sounds like a steven king movie.
Yeah, if I recall, it was throttle up going into a nose dive...The shooter knew this was wreak havoc with the airline, but never gave a second thought about all the innocents on board.
“The Langoliers”!!!!!
with CNN on the air at most airports,you got to wonder how Wolfe Blitzer is reporting it.
That's it..
To: Cruz_West_Paul2016
The Langoliers!!!!!
regarding the langoliers,odd coincidence,god i used to look exactly like Bronson(the lunatic),we were twins for a while.
China has sent 2 ships for search and rescue operations in South China Sea. Keep on praying!
acoulterfan to Cruz_West_Paul2016
China has sent 2 ships for search and rescue operations in South China Sea. Keep on praying!
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I just find it a little odd that no one saw the plane go down,unless it went down in the middle of nowhere.and no one hearing anything as well.
“I just find it a little odd that no one saw the plane go down,unless it went down in the middle of nowhere.and no one hearing anything as well.”
I have been thinking the exact same thing since the beginning. You would think there would be some ships at sea or other aircraft that might have seen something.
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