Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

JEP said:
Exactly...Just echoing your point.....People are starving for that 'Ah hah, moment....' It just isnt there...
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And that is why you see the silly story over the cell phones. Everyone should know better and understand how cell phones operate. But the families themselves are so desperate and clinging on to some sort of tiny shred of hope at this point, that it's just heartbreaking. No one wants and deserves some answers more than they do right about now. Sadly, I don't believe that will soon happen. I would love to be wrong.
 
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This is interesting. Further developments on the people using the stolen passports.
A telephone operator on a China-based KLM hotline on Sunday confirmed to Reuters "Maraldi" and "Kozel" were both booked to leave Beijing on a KLM flight to Amsterdam on March 8.

Maraldi was then to fly to Copenhagen on KLM on March 8, and Kozel to Frankfurt on March 8. She said the pair booked the tickets through China Southern Airlines so she had no information on where they bought them.
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from this story:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...tabases-not-routinely-checked-interpol-n48261
 
JEP said:
I can turn my phone off, call it, and it will ring....Then roll right to voice maill. I woudlnt put much wieght on this.
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"Locate my phone" app comes to mind. If they actually did have signal, seems like the fix would be quick.
 
mshunter said:
"Locate my phone" app comes to mind. If they actually did have signal, seems like the fix would be quick.
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That is a case where the phone would need to be on. Im just saying that the pones dont eed to be on to 'ring with no answer...'.
 
alaskadrifter said:
http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/03/missile-downed-malaysian-plane/
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I know this will get lost in the shuffle of this thread, but I have to comment on this "article" as I have others in the past: The amount of journalism involved here is negligible. A question headline, making connections based on proximity in time, unsourced statements, using the passive voice to insert author's opinions -- the list of Writing 101 no-nos is long. I can't take anything the guy has to say seriously.

edit: I see others took charge right after the link was posted. I'm satisfied.
 
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I know it's hard to wait for info in an incident like this, and I am really, really pleased with how this thread has gone as far as not splashing around in assumptions or jumping to conclusions.

The media makes their dollars by begin ZOMG FIRST BRAKING (sp intentional) NEWZ!!!!! Regardless of facts or accuracy... I don't have cable anymore, and have just been too busy with life to go online reading articles and news about the accident but it even seems like the mainstream media is doing a reasonably decent job of not throwing out too many speculative reports either. (That's a bit like saying the lions were reasonably tidy in eating their evening dinner but you get my point.)
 
There's nothing to really say of any concrete value, until something surfaces in some way. Hence why I've been fairly quiet. I work off of evidence, and as of right now, there isn't any having to directly do with the aircraft. Only a (so far) sidebar regarding stolen passports that may or may not be directly linked to this event. Am waiting on that.
 
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Crop Duster said:
OK, I know I'm going out on a limb here and breaking Buck Turgesen's rule not to judge before all the facts are in... however... other than breaking up or exploding into lots of little pieces in the air, there is exactly no way a 777 aircraft could disappear and go lost even if those flying it wanted to get it lost. If it crashed intact into the water a lá AF, there would be lots of relatively concentrated flotsom. If it flew, undetected, off course to "somewhere else"....
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Have y'all considered that maybe it is just lost à la LOST?

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I mean, that would explain the creepiness and the phone call connectivity thing, no?
 
Patrick said:
How would this help the current situ? I always thought those things were the marine equivalent of our FDRs, no?
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Pretty much, but they also include the ship's radar feed, which is all primary returns. Remember, unlike us, ships use the radars for TRAFFIC avoidance, so there is a good chance they would pick up any primary returns off the aircraft in the area also.
 
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How does a 777 crash on land and nobody sees it for days? Or is this over water
 
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