Malaysia Airlines loses contact with passenger jet

crimsonaudio · Mar 7, 2014

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Probably not going to result in good news...

Luvubama · Mar 7, 2014

This is very strange indeed. I first heard about it around 1:30 today and haven't heard boo since. I keep thinking there must be foul play but no way to know. Prayers for all those on board!

crimson fan man · Mar 7, 2014

Lost from radar can only mean one thing is they crash, unless you still can fly under the radar. I see bad news from this.

DzynKingRTR · Mar 7, 2014

this will not end well.

BamaFlum · Mar 7, 2014

That ain't good.

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JBama_in_PCOLA · Mar 8, 2014

Gotta pray for them! This is why I do not fly.

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gamersfuel · Mar 8, 2014

JBama_in_PCOLA said:
Gotta pray for them! This is why I do not fly.

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hope it ends well. but like you said, i will never set foot on an airplane.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Mar 8, 2014

gamersfuel said:
hope it ends well. but like you said, i will never set foot on an airplane.

News is saying all are feared dead. Sad man. Infants were onboard. I've flown around the world, but I just can't do it anymore. My nerves are too bad.

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crimsonaudio · Mar 8, 2014

Flying is still the safest motorized transportation known to man. We hear about plane crashes (which hopefully this is not, but little hope of that) because of the dramatic loss of a collection of lives, but every 2.5 days more people die in auto accidents in the US alone. It's estimated that 3,397 people die in auto accidents every day.

Flying is the safest thing going.

GreatDanish · Mar 8, 2014

crimsonaudio said:
Flying is still the safest motorized transportation known to man. We hear about plane crashes (which hopefully this is not, but little hope of that) because of the dramatic loss of a collection of lives, but every 2.5 days more people die in auto accidents in the US alone. It's estimated that 3,397 people die in auto accidents every day.

Flying is the safest thing going.

True.
A major difference is that in a car accident, I feel like I have some control and could very well survive most accidents. If the plane goes down, I'm pretty much dead.
And both are safer than motorcycles.

Bazza · Mar 8, 2014

There's a story out now that an Italian national living in Malaysia had his passport stolen last November and that passport was used by one of the passengers of this flight....

Terrorism?

An extraordinary story has just emerged from Italy in relation to missing flight MH 370.Luigi Maraldi, 37, from Cesena, was named as one of the passengers on board the plane.
However, reports in Italy have confirmed that he was NOT on board and that he had reported his passport stolen last August.
Mr Maraldi's parents have spoken to him in Thailand and he is 'fine', news agency ANSA reports.

The revelation suggests that one of the 227 passengers on board the missing flight was using a stolen passport.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-live-3219331

Also this:

The 12-mile oil slick discovered by the Vietnamese Navy is the first confirmed piece of evidence that flight MH370 may have crashed.

It was spotted during searches of the South China Sea earlier.
We're expecting another press conference shortly and hope to hear more then.

And this:

"Modern aircrafts are beautifully built and incredibly safe.
"If the engines were to fail because of some kind of interruption to the fuel flow, they can glide with no problems whatsoever for about 40 minutes at that height."Mr Learmount said the time which the Malaysia Airlines plane went missing may be significant.He said: "Between midnight and 2am you're not at a mental or physical performance high - you're at the lowest performance standard in the 24-hour cycle."The failure to locate the plane so far was not unusual, he added, with investigators taking two years to find the missing Air France 447 plane.However, Mr Learmount admitted he was "puzzled" why authorities had not divulged a more accurate location of where the aircraft went missing."They may not know precisely but they know pretty accurately," he said.

And this:

This Gif shows the moment flight MH370 disappeared.

Flight tracking website flightradar24.com says it lost contact 40 minutes after take off from Kuala Lumpur, not two hours as previously reported.

gmart74 · Mar 8, 2014

and all are safer than women, but i digress.

DzynKingRTR · Mar 8, 2014

alien abduction? X-Files music.

DzynKingRTR · Mar 8, 2014

crimsonaudio said:
Flying is still the safest motorized transportation known to man. We hear about plane crashes (which hopefully this is not, but little hope of that) because of the dramatic loss of a collection of lives, but every 2.5 days more people die in auto accidents in the US alone. It's estimated that 3,397 people die in auto accidents every day.

Flying is the safest thing going.

I was in a car once and the engine stalled... I survived rather easily.

If I had been in a plane and the engine stalled, I pretty sure I would not survive.

PacadermaTideUs · Mar 8, 2014

Bazza said:
There's a story out now that an Italian national living in Malaysia had his passport stolen last November and that passport was used by one of the passengers of this flight....

Apparently an Austrian also had his passport stolen and was incorrectly listed as a passenger. Looking more and more like an act of terrorism.

Story

PacadermaTideUs · Mar 8, 2014

If it does turn out to be an intentional takedown, my guess would be a group associated with Jemaah Islamiyah.

TexasBama · Mar 8, 2014

crimsonaudio said:
Flying is the safest thing going.

Depends on how you chose to look at it

"Per every billion kilometers traveled, trains have a fatality rate 12 times over air travel; by comparison, fatality rates for automobiles are 62 times greater than air travel. By contrast, for every billion journeys, buses are the safest form of transportation. By the last measure, air transportation is three times more dangerous than car transportation, and almost 30 times more dangerous than bus"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents

The reference link in this article has some 2000 stats. Based on this, you're 3x more likely to die every time you get a plane vs every time you get in a car.

The airlines like to quote per mile because it skews the stats in their favor.

crimsonaudio · Mar 8, 2014

DzynKingRTR said:
I was in a car once and the engine stalled... I survived rather easily.

If I had been in a plane and the engine stalled, I pretty sure I would not survive.

You can come up with all sorts of fantastic 'what-ifs', but the numbers don't lie. You're far more likely to be killed in a car than in a plane.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Mar 8, 2014

crimsonaudio said:
You can come up with all sorts of fantastic 'what-ifs', but the numbers don't lie. You're far more likely to be killed in a car than in a plane.

Only because there are far more cars.

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JBama_in_PCOLA · Mar 8, 2014

gmart74 said:
and all are safer than women, but i digress.

Hahahahaha

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