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Malaysia Airlines has lost an aircraft carrying 239 people. :(

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysi...ople-1.2564616

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Isn't that just the second 777 to go down? .... The first being the one at Heathrow a few years back.

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3rd. Asiana at SFO

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Its actually the 4th hull loss - there was a fire in the cockpit of an egyptair that burnt through the fuselage.

Flight radar us suggesting that it vanished at cruising height - so we're looking at

A) Weather (a la AF 447)
B) Major Structural Failure
C) Bomb

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According to a couple of the plane nerds I used to work with, the aircraft involved in the incident in the link is the same as the one that went down yesterday. Coincidence? Maybe. However, I doubt it as planes generally don't just fall out of the sky these days.

http://www.examiner.com/article/two-...ng-both-planes

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Echoes of flight 123. :unsure:

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Sounds like it could be. Good to see David Learmont, sky news "aviation expert" being quoted as saying the Malaysian 777 had a superb safety record LOL. How that guy gets away with calling himself an expert is beyond me!

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May or may not be relevant, but CBC news is reporting that 2 passengers have been identified as using stolen passports, one from Italy and one from Austria, and apparently both of the actual persons have been confirmed to be in their home countries alive and well.

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Both the passports were stolen in Thailand up to 2 years ago. Stolen passport and Thailand are reasonably common links.

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Minor damage to a wingtip is not going to cause the kind of major structural damage required to being down an aircraft in the cruise - not to mention that this aircraft is only (was) only 11 years old.

The CNN ticker on the bottom of the screen had it labelled as a 'Bowing' 777 for an hour earlier today :rolleyes:

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lol...does anyone verify anymore at media outlets before reporting/posting the info?

A few months back, an article I read mentioned an Airbus Boeing 737, apparently they thought it was just the same company or something.....

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Just now they are admitting the fact the plane was off course flying in the wrong direction, very strange.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

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Someone mentioned to me that cell phones of the victims were still ringing also - which tends to suggest the aircraft is on land. Very odd.

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Yes saw that in I think the Telegraph this morning. But do all cell companies work the same in that if the phone is "off" do they all not ring before going to voice mail, or do some ring first and then go to voice mail?

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I believe that cell phones will ring for several seconds while "the system" finds the actual device, so the theory that ringing phones prived that the plane landed somewhere was being discounted yesterday when I read it.

At the moment I think that it might be more interesting to know who the other passengers were on the plane, because the two idiots on stolen passports appear to be total red herrings.

Well in the direction it was heading, if it made it to land, it is even more odd that the Indians or Bangladeshis didn't notice a large unknown aircraft entering their airspace. :huh: