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Nuclear test experts to check if plane exploded
The Associated Press ^ | March 10, 2014 | Edith M. Lederer

Posted on 03/10/2014 6:19:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The head of the organization that monitors the nuclear test ban treaty said Monday he has asked its experts to see if they detected an explosion at high altitude of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

Lassina Zerbo, executive director of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization told a news conference that the CTBTO uses "infrasound" - or infrasonic sensors - to monitor the earth mainly for atmospheric nuclear explosions....

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airplanecrash; iran; malaysia; mh370; planecrash; unitednations; waronterror
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To: TBall

Because it’s impossible.


41 posted on 03/10/2014 7:29:26 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Don Corleone

I think they’re looking way far away from where it is. Shockingly, it appears there is zero Air Traffic Control or something. Nobody seems to know if it was even close to being on course.


42 posted on 03/10/2014 7:32:28 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: PAR35

I don’t know about that. It would require pretty severe modification to get the nozzle mounted on the front, so it’d be pretty hard to do (and be pretty obvious on the ground), but not “impossible.”

:^)


43 posted on 03/10/2014 7:37:54 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: bunster

What’s to the left?


44 posted on 03/10/2014 7:37:59 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: bunster

From this map, it looks like water...

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/03/10/real-time-flight-trackers-seek-missing-malaysian-air-flight-370-find-only-holes/


45 posted on 03/10/2014 7:40:36 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: PAR35; TBall

It IS possible.

If the plane has been setup for that, there is a Tanker available AND the Crew is trained for it.

But not in this case.


46 posted on 03/10/2014 8:05:52 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It didn’t explode, otherwise debris would have been found.


47 posted on 03/10/2014 8:06:40 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Cyber Liberty

The fuel transfer probe would be on top behind the cockpit IF is was setup for it. Then there is plumbing to run to the tanks.


48 posted on 03/10/2014 8:10:09 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: mabarker1

I suppose I’d have known that if I had been in the AF....

I always figured that’s where it’d have to be, and at any rate it would not be something easily concealed on the ground. I’m not sure it’s standard equipment for a civilian plane?


49 posted on 03/10/2014 8:14:18 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: MeshugeMikey

Now that’s a picture that I won’t be able to get out of my mind any time soon.

Thanks for cleaning out my gut so thoroughly


50 posted on 03/10/2014 8:21:47 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Cyber Liberty; mabarker1

Show me a link to ANY commercial 777 that’s capable of receiving in - air refueling - either from drogue and probe or boom.


51 posted on 03/10/2014 8:23:36 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: beethovenfan; Jeremiah Jr
I think the plane was beamed up to the mother ship.

Anyone checked the Indonesian volcanos?

52 posted on 03/10/2014 8:29:14 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: KosmicKitty
how far off track could the plane have gotten

About ten miles a minute.

53 posted on 03/10/2014 8:36:59 PM PDT by xone
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To: carriage_hill

I guess my point was the search had been concentrated off the Viet Nam coast and instead is extended now in other direction toward India as opposed to towards Phillipines.


54 posted on 03/10/2014 8:42:22 PM PDT by bunster
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To: Paladin2

They’d just take the 5th..


55 posted on 03/10/2014 8:43:39 PM PDT by Render
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To: Cyber Liberty
Shockingly, it appears there is zero Air Traffic Control or something

Shockingly? Look at the surrounding countries, not exactly economic powerhouses to pay for a system that doesn't have much tangible benefit for day to day living. ICAO is the 'controlling' authority outside of the US. There is an acknowledged radar gap in this area. Who's gonna pay to close it? Not just the equipment but the staffing.

Nobody seems to know if it was even close to being on course.

That's why there is a reporting procedure. Flying under ICAO is light years from the FAA.

56 posted on 03/10/2014 8:44:10 PM PDT by xone
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To: Ezekiel

Could Blofeld be back in action? ;)


57 posted on 03/10/2014 8:44:57 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Render

Not everyman can pass a Bar.


58 posted on 03/10/2014 8:45:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: carriage_hill
What’s to the left?

The reported deviation.

59 posted on 03/10/2014 8:45:26 PM PDT by xone
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To: driftdiver

Oh geez, I thought it was caused by a shaving rash.


60 posted on 03/10/2014 8:46:22 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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