Malaysian Airlines MH370 contact lost
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That picture does not show fishing boats nor does it show debris. I know exactly what it shows as have flown over this very spot many many times and always stare in amazement at these lights. To the east of VVTS is a large area where they grow flowers. This is a picture of these fields (greenhouses) where they grow the flowers they are lit up at night. It is unmistakable, flying from HKG to SGN it is just prior to TOD.
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Must be late in the day there now? What has been found? There should be a mile or so of floating seat cushions and baggage surely?
If the plane is not there where is it?
If the plane is not there where is it?
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Re debris pic
If I was a betting man I would say the pic in post 658 is taken over the greenhouses along the coast of Vietnam. When you fly over them sat night they are all lit up and look like glowing rectangles. If you look closely you can see how the greenhouses follow the valley contours.
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Why did the CNN reporter have to drag this information out of the military man at the conference. Ref Military radar picking up turn back. He was most uncomfortable admitting to it. For some reason Malaysian are not being 100% transparent with the public !! Perhaps protecting their good safety record.
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Two confirmed pax using stolen passports and now (possibly) four.
No sign of the aircraft and no wreckage yet. Only the oil slicks and these in an area with many oil and gas platforms any one of which could have had an accidental spillage. Complete and sudden loss of all communications.
Is it possible that this is a successful hijack? Is this aircraft sitting on the ground somewhere, incommunicado while the hijackers make their demands directly with governments?
No sign of the aircraft and no wreckage yet. Only the oil slicks and these in an area with many oil and gas platforms any one of which could have had an accidental spillage. Complete and sudden loss of all communications.
Is it possible that this is a successful hijack? Is this aircraft sitting on the ground somewhere, incommunicado while the hijackers make their demands directly with governments?
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Yerr there is definately something else going on here !
Just put all the pieces we know together and look at the news conferences.
Malaysian Airlines is NOT telling us all they know.
Just put all the pieces we know together and look at the news conferences.
Malaysian Airlines is NOT telling us all they know.
short flights long nights
I'm starting to think the aircraft has been hijacked as it seems to have completely disappeared. If it crashed, surely by now some wreckage would have been found.
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Watch the press conferences carefully and make up your mind.
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If it crashed, surely by now some wreckage would have been found.
Whatever the delay it may be result of incompetent or very slow search operation.
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Report said that they were extending search area to include land area on the western side of the country.
What is the terrain like? Are there unpopulated forest/rain forest type areas where the terrain might mask crash debris?
If not, I'm beginning to wonder if the plane actually was hijacked. Could someone plot out a circle showing how far the fuel on board could have gotten them?
What is the terrain like? Are there unpopulated forest/rain forest type areas where the terrain might mask crash debris?
If not, I'm beginning to wonder if the plane actually was hijacked. Could someone plot out a circle showing how far the fuel on board could have gotten them?
No floatsam = no crash
Until they find seats cushions floating from the doomed airliner one would think they could extend the radius to the limits of its endurance because who knows that the hijacker(s) may have pulled all the coms circuit brakers and taken it below radar to some isolated landing strip on a small island in the S China Sea?
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Was anyone else watching the Malaysian news conference on CNN about 90 minutes ago. One thing the commanding general said was that they had aircraft searching off western Malaysia, in the vicinity of Penang. That is a very long way from the last recorded radar fix go the aircraft.
Puzzling!
Puzzling!
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Could someone plot out a circle showing how far the fuel on board could have gotten them?
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Korea South, Korea North, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Australia.
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In no particular order and only a guess...
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Korea South, Korea North, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Australia.
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Korea South, Korea North, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Australia.
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Thinking outside the box...
For a moment, let's assume it is a hijacking. Either demands are being kept secret, or there have been no demands. Why do people usually hijack a plane? To defect, for ransom, to exchange for political prisoners, to make a 'statement'... What if there was someone in particular on the plane the hijackers wanted? The passenger who's name the Chinese redacted bothers me....
For a moment, let's assume it is a hijacking. Either demands are being kept secret, or there have been no demands. Why do people usually hijack a plane? To defect, for ransom, to exchange for political prisoners, to make a 'statement'... What if there was someone in particular on the plane the hijackers wanted? The passenger who's name the Chinese redacted bothers me....
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Surely any airspace a hijacked and unidentified plane flew through would have raised suspicion by now. Doesn't it seem more simple that the wreckage just hasn't been located yet? As much as I'd prefer the plane was hijacked and is in hiding somewhere with everyone relatively safe, my gut says something catastrophic happened.