Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Missing - Page 32

On March 21 2014 00:49 HelpMeGetBetter wrote:
Imagine if this picture is true. What are odds, a big chuck of the plane is still intact?
https://twitter.com/th1eves/status/446554168577118208/photo/1

On March 21 2014 02:37 r.Evo wrote:

A plane that supposedly flew until it had no more fuel left making a water landing that leaves most of its fuselage intact and floating? No. Just no.

This is an example of a fairly recent (1996) water ditching without fuel. It's also an example of a highjacking gone wrong.

Even when it comes to completely successful ditchings (there was both a Russian Tupolev that got ditched in a river and also an Airbus that got ditched in the Hudson River) the planes would just... sink afterwards without outside help.

Water landings and especially emergency landings are much more violent than if you'd try to do the same thing on land. Even actually finding said 24m piece still floating would be extremely lucky. (Do we know from when the satellite pictures that the Aussies are chasing atm are coming?)

On March 21 2014 05:47 dUTtrOACh wrote:
Crazy shit... it's the 21st century and we can't find 239 people on a machine rigged with millions of dollars worth of tracking technology.

On March 21 2014 05:47 dUTtrOACh wrote:
Man, this is like some Bermuda triangle shit at this point. If this was an act of terrorism, or kidnapping, it's strange that nobody has come forward with demands. I guess this will be turned into a movie whether or not the plane is discovered. So much intrigue...

I only hope there are survivors.

I'm reminded of the true-to-life movie Alive where a plane crashes and the plane itself is never found until the survivors appear all of a sudden. What if it did go down over a mountain range or some rural area / swamp, and the survivors are struggling to make contact with civilization right now while people argue over the politics of the pilot and search the ocean along the possible trajectories of the plane before they lost contact?

Crazy shit... it's the 21st century and we can't find 239 people on a machine rigged with millions of dollars worth of tracking technology.

On March 21 2014 06:34 maartendq wrote:

I think I read an interview with some marine officers who basically said that people have gotten way so used to the idea of GPS being able to find anything within minutes that they fail to realise that the Indian Ocean is an incredibly vast surface of water. If the aircraft really did have its tracking technology disabled it coud be years before we find it, especially if it sank all the way to the bottom of the sea.

It's against human nature to accept that sometimes shit just happens, so we just keep looking, in the meantime blaming people and circumstances without even the slightest modicum of proof.

On March 21 2014 07:29 jrwh wrote:


My personal, and unprofessional opinion is that the plane landed intact somewhere and the passengers are still quite possibly alive. It doesn't make any sense to me to go through all the trouble of making the plane "disappear" in plain sight only to fly it into the ocean. A pilot with a suicide wish wouldn't need to do all that. I'm expecting the Australian findings to be another false alarm.

On March 21 2014 08:10 GreenHorizons wrote:


Well at this point this event is inciting several countries to spend millions and millions of dollars which is actually the intention of terrorist attacks anyway; so if it was terrorism it's already been more effective than most attacks. If not it shows us yet again our paranoia around terrorism is far more dangerous than the terrorists themselves.

On March 21 2014 08:35 Taf the Ghost wrote:
Plus, we don't know if the event went properly. There have been a lot of failed terror plots. If this one half-Failed, that could explain all of the strange problems.

On March 21 2014 08:31 Hryul wrote:

terrorists want to spread terror. There isn't much terror spread atm. it is literally different from all terrorist attacks i know of.

What would be the point to let a plane vanish anyway from the pov of a terrorist? the search may be expensive, but it's not ruining any country.

On March 21 2014 08:35 Taf the Ghost wrote:


Terrorists aren't well known for being brilliant long-term thinkers. Considering most of the problematic ones are suicidal jihadists, their long-term planning is in question.

Plus, we don't know if the event went properly. There have been a lot of failed terror plots. If this one half-Failed, that could explain all of the strange problems.