Posted on 03/11/2014 2:47:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Family members and friends of Chinese passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines flight expressed mounting frustration as the international search for the Beijing-bound aircraft widened.
Amid the public furor, China's state-run media lashed out at the Malaysian authorities and the national airline over their handling of the missing jetliner with 153 Chinese on board.
Colleagues of some of the Chinese among 227 passengers aboard flight MH370 say they have been unable to get through on the airline's external contact number since the plane disappeared from radar somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
"I have been trying to call Malaysia Airlines ... all weekend but it's hard to get through," Zheng Wenshan, whose Chinese colleagues at a painting and calligraphy exhibit in Kuala Lumpur are among those missing, was quoted as saying by Radio Free Asia. "Nobody picks up on the weekend."
"I haven't been able to get through this whole time," Zheng said, still hoping for good news about the other members of his group, whom he last saw at Kuala Lumpur's International Airport before he boarded separate flight home to Shanghai after the event.
"I still want them to come home, and I hope every day that they will trace [the plane]," he said. "But the current situation means I am no longer confident."
Malaysia Airlines said a response coordination center will be established once the aircraft is located. The airline was also expected to fly relatives of the passengers from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
While the desperate search for the Boeing 777 jet expanded across a 50-nautical-mile (92-kilometer) radius area around where the plane was last contacted, no definitive traces of wreckage or passengers who were en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing have been sighted. Xinhua quoted
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It appears out of nowhere, to this ignoramus, yours truly, that the target was SOMEONE ON BOARD THE JET>
Peruse the MANIFEST, ANYONE?
Clearly the plane was hijacked by Lauretta Fuddy. Freescale was actually transporting a working cold fusion unit via Andrea Rossi. This was to be sold to the Japanese to take the place of Fukushima. They were then going to pay Fuddy et al with Bitcoin. Bitcoin(Mark of the Beast), which of course, was made by the JOOS!
Way too much overkill and attention in stealing an entire plane and not giving the whole world closure. The payoff doesn't match the method.
Industrial espionage, blackmail and political payoffs are much more efficient and already embedded in the infrastructure.
And you have proof that it wasn’t a fuel tank explosion?
How about 2 Iranians with fake passports coerce the co-pilot into killing the pilot and taking the plane. Instead of the co-pilot takinheck troll of the plane, he is killed also and now you have 2 Iranians with no experience flying a plane at 600MPH. Last thing the co-pilot does before he dies is take the plane off autopilot.
No flying experience, no radio experience the plane stays aloft for as long as possible before it the terrorists pull back the stick. It stalls and nose dives into the ocean.
Plane is off course, no debris and under a few hundred feet of water.
I was thinking that Putin might want to pin this on us.
I'm leaning toward a bomb on the plane.
LOL. Like I’d have proof.
Cute, made me laugh. Thanks.
That’s great.
Even if the dairy “cow” has horns.....
Wow. I guess that we will know soon. Hopefully it ends well.
The most likely scenario is the the comms mast on the underside of the fuselage separated from the plane. This seems to be a known weakness due to improper use of adhesives and there is supposedly an AD for this issued by the FAA. With no comms and small hole in the fuselage, the cabin gradually decompresses and incapacitates the crew. They turn back and program the autopilot to descend, then go to sleep. The plane goes down to 3,000 feet, levels off, and flies into the Indian Ocean until the fuel is exhausted.
Occam's' Razor says the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
If the plane was high jacked and subsequently shot down, we might assume there was some consensus on that decision.
Given it could happen again tomorrow, it’s not in any government’s interest to second guess that decision or the entity that was tasked with shooting the plane down.
If that were the case, wouldn’t the story unfold publically just like we’re seeing it unfold?
Yup.
That’s funny
What in the world do horns have to do with milk?
Reading through all of these threads today, I must say your comment makes the most sense. Tho not necessarily the Indian Ocean part.
My intuitive hit initially was something went wrong with the structure…which made no particular sense until I read your post here.
But what about the cell phones? How quickly would passengers go unconscious?
For an experiment, turn your cell phone off and drive about 20 miles. Then call your cellphone from another phone and listen to it ring. That is because of the way roaming works. And at that height, about twenty seconds if it was an explosive decompression. Most people were asleep anyway, and if the alarms for low pressure did not sound immediately because of a small leak, hypoxia would just creep up on them. The pilots have a separate oxygen system, but if this had been worked on and forgotten to be turned on, well...
Most cattle have cows without horns and bulls with.
There are exceptions. Texas Longhorns, Danish red, etc where both cows and bulls have horns.
But dairy cattle? Usually only bulls.
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