montreal mike

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26659951

COULD THIS BE IT?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-2...-mh370/5334314

MarkG

Hard to know whether to be hopeful or not. On the one hand, if it's really from the plane, we'd finally have a good idea of where it is, on the other, there'd be essentially no chance of any survivors.

montreal mike

HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE IT

geedee

Hopefully not.... I'd rather think it's been hijacked, all the passengers and crew are safe and will get back home soon....

montreal mike

THAT WOULD BE TOO MUCH TO HOPE FOR

nldfc

Is your Caps Lock broken ?

montreal mike

NO

i JUST DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO SUCH TRIVIAL MATTERS

lookingtogo

This piece of news has become a media circus. I pity the family members.

geedee

I know. Imagine if it was your wife/husband/daughter/son. Absolutely awful. The worst thing is that we are all so closely "watched" these days, how can a bloody whole plane with hundreds of people just vanish? What happened to "triangulation" to pinpoint phone signals (remember at the beginning some of the phones were working?). What about the NSA, super spooks... they lose a plane?? It just does not compute. Somebody, somewhere, knows exactly where that plane is, but isn't telling.
Wonder if Apple's "Find My Phone" app would work.... ???... Q Ultrarunner...!

scrubbedexpat091

I am sure the authorities attempted to ping phones, doubt they just ignored it. But that also didn't prove the phones were on either, if you call my phone while its off or in airplane mode, it still rings before going to voice mail.

caretaker

UR's probably in Camp X or the Ukraine.
I know what you mean about it seeming strange that those people can just disappear - I went fishing with a waitress one weekend and by the time we got back everyone knew where we'd been.

montreal mike

DID YOU CAST YOUR REEL?

Steve_

He said many kilometers away or whatever but they know from the ACAR satellite contact it flew on for hours so it seems implausible it could have with a fire going that was serious enough to take out the crew, the radio, the ACAR, etc.

Anyway they've leaked a map now showing the military radar over Malaysia and it went west over Malaysia, turned NE to follow the coast, then west over the Malacca Straits. That isn't a fire. That's hijacking. And mathematically they can work out from the ACAR ping and the distance from the satellite the direction and speed roughly anyway. So from the point of the last ping is the corridor they're searching now.

Surface radar is a very highly developed technology to search for say, incoming torpedoes and there isn't much down there so in theory they should be able to find it.

Siouxie

Could you please stop typing in capitals, it's really unnecessary.

Using capitals to post, in internet terms, is akin to shouting.

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Tips_on_using_the_forum (9)

montreal mike

OK

sorry about that