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How Can Jet Disappear? In the Ocean, It's Not Hard
The Jakarta Post ^ | Eileen Ng, Kristen Gelineau and Scott Mayerowitz

Posted on 03/12/2014 5:23:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway

In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is staggering. But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is hardly the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonizing it can be to try to find something lost in them.

It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Closer to the area between Malaysia and Vietnam where Saturday's flight vanished, it took a week for debris from an Indonesian jet to be spotted in 2007. Today, the mostly intact fuselage still sits on the bottom of the ocean.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; malaysia; mh370; terrorism

1 posted on 03/12/2014 5:23:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Oceanic Flight 815


2 posted on 03/12/2014 5:26:58 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.


idiotic comparison...it may have taken two years to find the main wreckage but the tail, bodies and other wreckage was found floating less than 12 hours after the plane stopped communicating...


3 posted on 03/12/2014 5:34:31 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: nickcarraway

White Wash...


4 posted on 03/12/2014 5:38:19 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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I don’t understand this....we can track the whereabouts of insects for heaven sakes!

http://www.geospatialworld.net/News/View.aspx?id=27650_Article


5 posted on 03/12/2014 5:39:48 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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To: nickcarraway

Its a lot of ocean.


6 posted on 03/12/2014 5:39:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: nickcarraway

Stealth cloaking.


7 posted on 03/12/2014 5:41:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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How Can a Jet Disappear?

Not one of Jack Lemmon's best efforts...

8 posted on 03/12/2014 6:51:44 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: ZOOKER
Whoops.


9 posted on 03/12/2014 6:55:24 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: nickcarraway

Fly it like you stole it!


10 posted on 03/12/2014 8:32:42 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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http://aun-tv.com/was-the-malaysian-airlines-plane-stolen-a-criminological-view/


11 posted on 03/12/2014 8:53:58 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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