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Unconfirmed report says Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 black box has been found
news.com.au ^ | 11th April 2014

Posted on 04/10/2014 8:02:04 PM PDT by naturalman1975

THERE are unconfirmed reports that the black box flight recorder from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been found.

Perth radio station 6PR tweeted the report, citing aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is in China, is giving a pre-planned press conference at 2pm AEST.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackbox; flightrecorder; mh370; muslimpilots
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To: Kennard
What's happened to Australians? Do you let an foreigner call your PM a clown, even if you're a Labour supporter? Also, CNN was doing this more subtly an hour ago in their fit of pique when the rumour, unconnected to Abbott, turned out to be untrue. The Australian who stuck up for Abbott was dissed.

Labor supporters do, yes. Not all of them, but a lot of them. For the last five or so years, while Labor was in government and Tony Abbott was Leader of the Opposition, the Labor Party, and some of its fellow travellers (like a group called GetUp! which basically started as an offshoot of MoveOn, in the US) have deliberately presented an idea over and over and over and over again, that Tony Abbott is stupid, and somehow dangerous. Unfortunately, repeat it ad nauseum often enough, and a lot of people come to continue to repeat it.

And because he is a genuine conservative, who values Australia's connections with American conservatism, it doesn't surprise me that the American left are getting in on the act as well.

It has nothing to do with facts - he's an Oxford educated Rhodes Scolar, who before that was educated at the University of Sydney (one of Australia's top three universities according to most assessments) and before that attended one of the two top Catholic boys schools in the country (run by the Jesuits - I teach at its brother school in Melbourne, which is the other contender for that top two position). He's a highly educated, highly intelligent man - but the left wing media like to caricature him, and were willing participants in Labor's desperate attempts to cling onto power by painting him negatively.

101 posted on 04/10/2014 11:21:31 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: 6AL-4V

That’s what somebody told me, at any rate.

It would seem to me that it should be viable to create a black box that can detach itself from the plane, in the event of a water landing, and have it float to be picked up.

For the amount of money that was spent trying to find this plane they probably could retro-fitted half the planes in the world with such a design.


102 posted on 04/11/2014 12:50:29 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: tumblindice

Make your remark about the Gilligan’s Island picture as well if you are consistent.


103 posted on 04/11/2014 2:47:14 AM PDT by BeadCounter (morning glory evening grace)
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To: naturalman1975

Geoff Thomas is the only normal person on CNN (whenever Wolf has him on) — I hope he’s right.


104 posted on 04/11/2014 3:23:36 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: Mastador1

At 64, I can hear “the music”.


105 posted on 04/11/2014 3:55:33 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: dr_lew

LOL; okay, Mike Nelson.


106 posted on 04/11/2014 3:56:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: BeadCounter

Heh; that’s more like it.


107 posted on 04/11/2014 3:58:01 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Mastador1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lj6wzCbVts


108 posted on 04/11/2014 3:59:40 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Or glue. Or booze. Or...


109 posted on 04/11/2014 4:02:02 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: naturalman1975

Was it found on a table in the WH?


110 posted on 04/11/2014 5:14:41 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Mastador1; carriage_hill

I not only hear the dramatic music, but I know there’s better than a 50/50 chance that Lloyd will tangle with an octopus before this is all over.


111 posted on 04/11/2014 5:50:03 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: Scoutmaster

You also know he’s gonna have to ‘clear his mask’ at least once, and check the depth gauge on every dive. Heh.


112 posted on 04/11/2014 5:56:25 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: bigdaddy45
IF they find a black box (huge if), then they’ll find a plane (or whats left of it) around it. Are you suggesting they will plant a whole plane there too?

Maybe it's just a "noisemaker" making beeps on the right frequency.


113 posted on 04/11/2014 6:03:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Read The Hunt For Red October and tell me it wouldn’t be easy to make someone believe they found pieces of the plane as well.


114 posted on 04/11/2014 6:07:57 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: carriage_hill

+1


115 posted on 04/11/2014 6:18:28 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I do recall Abbott jumping the gun before. Thought he would avoid it in future.

BTW, Malaysia just implied they will be in control of the black box investigation... I hope they let Aussies or US or Uk etc work them.


116 posted on 04/11/2014 7:31:32 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Perhaps the 5th ping is related to a piece of cargo which was being tracked by a certain government. What do you do with a nuke that must be called back? You clandestinely attach a pinger to it to be able to track it were it to get into the wrong hands, and find it to reclaim it.


117 posted on 04/11/2014 7:36:53 AM PDT by CARTOUCHE (I'm an Obamacare truant. Waiting on the truant officer to arrive.)
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To: naturalman1975

Thank you for the info.


118 posted on 04/11/2014 7:39:37 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I thought that too, I may be wrong. naturalman1975 had a post saying it (Houston’s comment) was unrelated to Abbott.


119 posted on 04/11/2014 7:43:13 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: naturalman1975; Revolting cat!; Daffynition
Quite a search but it may have paid off...


120 posted on 04/11/2014 8:33:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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