Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

SeanD said:
The news that both of the stolen passports where purchased together adds to that theory even more. I was thinking about that last night. What are the odds that 2 stolen passports where used to board this flights. Bother were taken from Thailand roughly around the same time from two separate locations and now to find out both tickets were purchases together. I hate to say it, but that looks like more than just a coincidence in my opinion.
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The odds are pretty high. You have to use conditional probability, and you see that the odds of two after the first one are higher, given that a certain percentage may be trying to sneak into the country, etc. People don't tend to use conditional probability. Those autism adverts are a case in point. As much as I support the cause, the odds of people achieving the various things they outline, based on what they did and other pre-conditions, is actually quite high, not one in a million, like they state.
 
canadian_atc said:
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What's been spotted
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Life raft? Assume they auto inflate in water?
 
Tough to get a sense of scale from the photo, but it looks too small and wrong size/shape to be a life raft to me. Could be anything really. So much junk from ships floats in the heavily traveled waters.
 
deadstick said:
Well, yes....of course. Somebody asked about military activity and nobody has mentioned 007...
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Maybe a mid-air too. A Navy F4 cut a Hughes Air West DC-9 in half doing rolls across the LA Basin in the 60's. Only the back seater survived.
 
SquatThrust said:
Tough to get a sense of scale from the photo, but it looks too small and wrong size/shape to be a life raft to me. Could be anything really. So much junk from ships floats in the heavily traveled waters.
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It looks a little like the solid flotation devices that were once common on large commercial vessels. They were frequently blown overboard and are still seen washing up on shores decades later.
 
fholbert said:
Maybe a mid-air too. A Navy F4 cut a Hughes Air West DC-9 in half doing rolls across the LA Basin in the 60's. Only the back seater survived.
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No other aircraft reported missing in that area though.
Unless,... umm, where's Qutch? Maybe he knows. Or this guy:

 
Cptnchia said:
What I meant though was the corps at The Citadel and VMI actually fought engagements during the war as units of the CSA. They carry battl
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Yes we did, freshman still have to memorize all the dates and locations. "Star of the West, January 9th, 1861...."
 
Is it possible hijackers forced the crew to fly low (below radar coverage if that's even possible) and forced it to land somewhere remote? Or do I just watch too much TV? I just can't fathom why there is NO evidence of a crash for so long.
 
SeanD said:
The news that both of the stolen passports where purchased together adds to that theory even more. I was thinking about that last night. What are the odds that 2 stolen passports where used to board this flights. Bother were taken from Thailand roughly around the same time from two separate locations and now to find out both tickets were purchases together. I hate to say it, but that looks like more than just a coincidence in my opinion.
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Eh, I still lean way more towards that being a human trafficking issue like somebody (@Seggy I think) said earlier.
 
I heard on another thread that the pax with stolen passports were booked from Beijing on to AMS. Flying on false passports is a common way for drug mules to get from place to place with the goods.
 
This whole thing is just seeming more and more fishy... I am seriously beginning to wonder if some country (red flag with one big star and four small ones) who is getting more and more aggressive towards non red flag vessels in the South China Sea mistook the flight deviating off their assigned route as suspicious and mistakenly took military action. I hope my crazy conspiracy self is wrong though...
 
It's hard to follow stories like this in the popular press. When they say they lost radar contact, could they mean they lost transponder reception vs. primary return? It would explain why they can't find any wreckage.
 
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Even a high altitude inflight breakup will leave a pretty good sized debris field (see: Columbia) so the fact that they haven't found anything yet leads me to believe that either it landed somewhere under it's own power or if it did breakup (or even crash) it did it somewhere where the search teams aren't looking right now.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
It's hard to follow stories like this in the popular press. When they say they lost radar contact, could they mean they lost transponder reception vs. primary return? It would explain why they can't find any wreckage.
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I've gotten almost 100% of my information on this from the AP and BBC news app on my phone and my level of satisfaction is incredibly high. Just facts, no "experts" with crazy theories. The world would be a better place without all that stuff.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
...so they can return to their origin country, in which they are illegal.
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So you're saying, a Chinese national, who cannot return to China under their own name has to use an assumed identity to return home, or that someone transiting through Beijing to a third country is doing that?
 
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