Malaysian Jet

March 20th, 2014 at 3:36:32 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Time over target may be low but they have a Norwegian freighter on station using searchlights as best it can at night. Debris eventually sinks or disperses, even flotation cushions get waterlogged.
March 20th, 2014 at 7:23:23 PM permalink
beachbumbabs
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Updated search time is a little over 2 hours on site before they have to return. Ugh. 8 hour round trip. Definitely need a tanker.
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March 20th, 2014 at 8:40:47 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Quote: beachbumbabs
Updated search time is a little over 2 hours on site before they have to return. Ugh. 8 hour round trip. Definitely need a tanker.
Remember the Falkland War Conflict? The UK sent two Vulcan bombers and 11 Vulcan Tankers just to have one plane bomb a runway at Stanley. Round flight time: Sixteen hours. And all the raid did was to put one crater in the runway which was repaired within 24 hours.
March 20th, 2014 at 11:46:45 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Pilot suicide, the plane is in Davy Jones Locker.
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and CNN. Nuff said...
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March 21st, 2014 at 12:04:34 AM permalink
Fleastiff
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He isn't the first pilot to commit suicide and take his crew and passengers with him. Although no one knows who punched in the commands or why other crew members did not over power him.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:10:59 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Fleastiff
He isn't the first pilot to commit suicide and take his crew and passengers with him. Although no one knows who punched in the commands or why other crew members did not over power him.


He killed the co-pilot, most likely. Doesn't matter, we'll find
the plane 50 years from now. We found the Titanic 70 years
after it went down. Still looking for poor sweet Amelia and
her plane.. Big planet, really big ocean. You can take the
entire land mass of the earth and put it into the Pacific,
and still have 25% of the ocean left over.
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March 21st, 2014 at 9:53:29 AM permalink
odiousgambit
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Quote: Evenbob
You can take the
entire land mass of the earth and put it into the Pacific,
and still have 25% of the ocean left over.


Most likely to have wound up in the Indian Ocean. I know you know that, just pointing it out. And it may be a distinction without much of a difference.
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March 21st, 2014 at 10:00:00 AM permalink
TheCesspit
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Quote: Fleastiff
He isn't the first pilot to commit suicide and take his crew and passengers with him. Although no one knows who punched in the commands or why other crew members did not over power him.


I would have expect pilot suicide not to take a joy ride first.... (shrug)
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March 21st, 2014 at 10:44:10 AM permalink
chickenman
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That's what has me stumped, simply not logical. Of course if all the facts are ever revealed the answer may not be logical.
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March 21st, 2014 at 11:49:28 AM permalink
beachbumbabs
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Quote: chickenman
That's what has me stumped, simply not logical. Of course if all the facts are ever revealed the answer may not be logical.


Yeah, if it was deliberate, as seems likely, sanity doesn't really seem to enter into it.
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