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So as opposed to CNN you prefer the news from Rupert Murdoch. :confused:

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"Senior Aviation Expert".:eek:

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Can't get bloody peace today. Edwards Air Force Base are gearing up for an air show...they're practicing above me...loop the bloody loops, formation bloody flyby's, sky bloody writing, sonic bloody booms...





And then there's that Virgin chap with this one of his that keeps buzzing ma hoose.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/8045...ight-plane.jpg

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;)
(His)"silence speaks louder than words"......

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australian broadcasting corp reporting possible flt 370 debris found. Australian PM is the one the ABC is quoting

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I feel your pain, I used to live in Farnborough.

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I used to live under the approach path to Heathrow. It's easy enough to get used to. My mother lives 15 or so miles from Fairford, and the three-aircraft convoys of Stratotankers back in the 1980's were a lot more disruptive, roaring for about 15 minutes and generating enough energy to make the windows vibrate the whole while despite being high enough to be nothing more than specks in the sky.

The habit repeated for several years of keeping the pre-race flypast fighters for the NASCAR races at Charlotte in a horizontal loop holding pattern passing over my house, waiting for the call to go down to the track, was more surprising.

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No, noooooooooo it's not. I've lived in Hounslow, Cranford and Stanwell Moor. I never got used to it LOL. Especially when I lived in Stanwell Moor. That place was literally at the end of the runway. Luckily, Heathrow rarely uses easterly ops, but when it did and the first Jumbos used to come in, I used to wake up thinking the house was being destroyed. They were so low, if you were outside, you would have to stop talking as they went over. There is a house in Hatton Cross that actually has landing lights in the garden LOL. I know, cause I used to have to check em.

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OK, I wasn't that close. :o I was about 5 miles to the east of the east end of the runways.

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Update: Prime Minister Tony Abbott will be holding a news conference shortly but before he does he has warned that the 2 pieces of debris may turn out not to be from aircraft
why give news conference if not fairly certain?
Guess we'll find out soon...

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Well four RAAF aircraft have been deployed to find and identify two specific "objects" in the Indian Ocean possibly connected to one of the biggest news stories so far this year. So I would say that, in contrast to the fog covering the Malaysian peninsular, it is fit and proper that the Australian prime minister be open and honest.

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My sister lived in South Cerney in the 80's. Fairford really was spectacular in those days.

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The mid 70's were better! ;)

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If the debris if from MH370 and is 1,500 miles west off the coast of Perth, this is starting to sound stranger than even Hollywood. I was starting to think that maybe it was a mechanical problem since everything seemed so far fetched and the plane crashed but if it was a mechanical problem, why would the plane be there.

I have serious doubts that an auto pilot would navigate that type of course without human input and if it was human input, how could someone miss program the auto pilot so badly as to miss all the land masses which are primarily east of the suspected route.

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It's looking, as has been suspected for several days on some web sites I have seen, that the aircrew were dead/ unconscious and the autopilot switched OFF. It was just drifting along, following the laws of physics and being occasionally buffeted by the wind, aided only by the fly-by-wire software that is defaulted to prevent stalls and excessive speed. The alternative is suicide, perhaps even before the plane crashed, which would lead to the previously described scenario. :unsure: .... That said, given the amount of debris floating around in the oceans, I will remain sceptical until the debris is recovered and identified.