Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 11182570)

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.

Originally Posted by gozitanguygoinghome99xx (Post 11185070)

Does anybody think it's a coincidence that Russia took over Crimea around the same time this plane went missing? :confused:

Originally Posted by gozitanguygoinghome99xx (Post 11185070)

Does anybody think it's a coincidence that Russia took over Crimea around the same time this plane went missing? :confused:

Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11185227)

I was wondering that. Nice icon BTW.

Originally Posted by Greenhill (Post 11188087)

"Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived. As you will hear in the next hour from Malaysia's Prime Minister, we must now accept all evidence suggests the plane went down in the Southern Indian Ocean."

(Source: BBC news)

Originally Posted by lookingtogo (Post 11188246)

I'm gutted.

RIP all those on board, MH370 and peace to the loved ones.

And hope the ridiculous news outlets can stop parading heartbreak photos of relatives for their circulations. It's disgusting.

Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11188446)

It's the new age of journalism. That and pictures of dead people.

Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 11188921)

Only as long as photography, it's the ability to strap a camera on and transmit it worldwide to anyone for free or good as that is the real mind-blower. When I was young I had thoughts of becoming a photo-journalist but didn't pursue it.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 11188899)

Photos of dead people isn't really a new thing in media, its been done for a very long time.