Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

amorris311 said:
It is amazing the comfort one has with the sight of just a small light. Now I don't fly over oceans, but lately have been flying to places for the first time and the small farm lights make everything seem ok no matter what.
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I think it's a part mental and part emotional aspect that happens/occurs in the brain. It wants/needs to find and define a spatial reference. When crossing an ocean, you are always aware obviously of that point of no return, and I used to catch myself taking a little breath, pondering it for a moment and then refocusing with the need to move ahead and just continue on. But it did often give me a small interlude.
 
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I have to head to bed for an early start, but this is the only update of any sort that I could find while continuing to monitor several Asian news sources:

"Vietnam’s Defense Ministry has launched a search for the plane.

Malaysian authorities also dispatched a plane, two helicopters and four vessels to search seas off its east coast in the South China Sea, said Faridah Shuib, a spokeswoman for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.

The Philippines said it was sending three navy patrol boats and a surveillance plane to help efforts."
 
The USS Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group is operating out in the East China Sea if they require assistance from the U.S.
 
H46Bubba said:
The USS Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group is operating out in the East China Sea if they require assistance from the U.S.
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Interesting you mentioned that as I also just found this:

"The SAR operations called will involve MAS, the Department of Civil Aviation, the Royal Malaysian Air Force, the Royal Malaysian Navy, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, the Butterworth-based Intergrated Area Defence System Headquarters and the agencies from Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, China and the Hawaii-based United States Pacific Command.

The IADS Headquarters administers the five-power defence pact involving Malaysia, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, while the United States Pacific Command has a flotilla of warships and aircraft carriers scouring the Pacific Ocean.

Maritime officials have also alerted fishing vessels in the region to keep a lookout."

I think we will see a pretty massive search effort deployed pretty quickly from the sea and the air. I am sure we will be there looking as well. I just hope something turns up for the sake of the families.
 
amorris311 said:
It is amazing the comfort one has with the sight of just a small light. Now I don't fly over oceans, but lately have been flying to places for the first time and the small farm lights make everything seem ok no matter what.
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Yup. I remember my first time flying over the desert in the middle of the night scared to death of how screwed I'd be if something happened. Finally seeing a road with one or two cars on it was such a sigh of relief.
 
JordanD said:
Yup. I remember my first time flying over the desert in the middle of the night scared to death of how screwed I'd be if something happened. Finally seeing a road with one or two cars on it was such a sigh of relief.
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All I'm picturing is Jordan walking up to a house after an engine failure in the middle of the night and being shot at by some doomsday prepper who thinks he's from the gubment and is there to steal his thoughts.

"Sweet, I made it."

"GET OFF MAH LAWN!"
 
Will all the craziness happening lately I sure hope its not another deliberate pilot induced situation.

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Derg said:
This has me all stressed out because one of my biggest fears is something happening over the jungle or the ocean when there's no radar coverage or even contact with other planes and just "poof"
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Flying to the Caribbean and back during the night gives me the willy's too. I feel comfort when I finally get to talk to San Juan//NY.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
Flying to the Caribbean and back during the night gives me the willy's too. I feel comfort when I finally get to talk to San Juan//NY.
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Shoot...flying from south Florida to key west at night even creeps me out! If there's even the slightest headwind I start looking for lights after a bit lol
 
This is terrible, and those images are downright disrespectful. I cannot stand the media!

I'm the last person to worry about modern day plane crashes while flying, but we fly out tonight on a 777 for a trans-atlantic flight. Not gonna lie, a few details of this crash would be nice to have...
 
ClarkGriswold said:
The Everglades are sketchy at night in a GA airplane, pitch black and full of things you don't want to encounter day or night!
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It's still sketchy during the day!! I used to hate when we would file for a route down the coast and they would route us down the center of the state and over the Everglades and other swampy areas.
 
ChasenSFO said:
Geez, found another shot of the woman who is in most of these press images, but with the caption:

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Really? Go die in a fire please. Kthx. I hate the media.
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Don't hate the media. The media is just giving the people what they want. People in general are the problem, not the media.
 
A Life Aloft said:
I think it's a part mental and part emotional aspect that happens/occurs in the brain. .
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It's akin to those who claim that engines on a single-engine plane run rougher at night versus the day, especially when over the ocean or mountainious terrain. And gremlins come out at night to mess with things, but are never around during the day.
 
If there's fuel stains that large would that eliminate a catastrophic breakup at altitude?
 
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