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Missing Plane

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Freesolo

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What do you guy think? I'm guessing a pilot suicide it seem the only logical reason.

I don't know if phones would work on a plane but if one of the pilots locked out the the other from the cockpit then you would have to think that someone could phone or get a message to someone, which leave pilot murder but all planes have the map on your tv screen telling you where you are so that doesn't make sense

It could be a explosive decompression but pilot the would have put out a mayday surely he plane turned around too

Its such a strange situation that makes no sense i would really like to know what happened on this flight

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stripeyfox

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An interesting development. The part number corresponds with a part from a B777. There have only been four other 777's in "hull loss" incidents (the British Airways crash at Heathrow, an on ground fire on an Egypt Air jet at Cairo, the Asiana crash on landing at San Francisco and the MH17 shoot down in Ukraine) so it rules out the part being from one of those.

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MC Prussian

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What do you guy think? I'm guessing a pilot suicide it seem the only logical reason.

I don't know if phones would work on a plane but if one of the pilots locked out the the other from the cockpit then you would have to think that someone could phone or get a message to someone, which leave pilot murder but all planes have the map on your tv screen telling you where you are so that doesn't make sense

It could be a explosive decompression but pilot the would have put out a mayday surely he plane turned around too

Its such a strange situation that makes no sense i would really like to know what happened on this flight

There's a couple of theories, and a terrorist attack or hijacking is unlikely, as no one has ever claimed responsibility for the disappearance up to this point. So, it's either mechanical failure (even though the 777 is considered one of the safest planes in the commercial transportation world), a fire onboard (yet there was no emergency signal or call issued), everybody knocked unconscious (part of the cargo was flammable lithium batteries that can develop toxic gases if exposed to heat) or... the suicide theory (but the investigators found no evidence of medical, financial or personal issues with the crew, at least not the pilot and co-pilot).

 

There's a very good 2015 documentary on the subject:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/where-flight-mh370/

 

Hopefully, this mystery can be solved soon and more pieces of the airplane retrieved at some point.

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Wymsey

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Might take another good few months (if they're in the right area obviously) to find the actual site, but this is quite a massive breakthrough imo.

 

Can't imagine how the relatives of the victims are feeling right now.

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stripeyfox

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Might take another good few months (if they're in the right area obviously) to find the actual site, but this is quite a massive breakthrough imo.

Can't imagine how the relatives of the victims are feeling right now.

It is a massive breakthrough, and yet such a tiny piece of the puzzle.

It really is one of the great mysteries of our time.

At least they know they are searching more or less in the right area, even if it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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Jon the Hat

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It is a massive breakthrough, and yet such a tiny piece of the puzzle.

It really is one of the great mysteries of our time.

At least they know they are searching more or less in the right area, even if it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

 

And they know for sure it is in the sea, we were all assuming before.

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DJ Barry Hammond

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Looking at the various statements being released on this latest tradegy, I think senior authorities know a fair bit of whatever's gone on (naturally and quite rightly there are formal protocols that need to be gone through before anything concrete is released).

Thoughts and sympathies go out to all connected.

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Nick

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Confirmed as a crash in the Med now, though apparently no mayday signal was transmitted. They have, however, noticed that the plane appeared to swerve before disappearing.

Yeah, leading to speculative reports about a fight in the cockpit.... Or perhaps a flock of migrating birds at 37,000 ft?

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Darkon84

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Yeah, leading to speculative reports about a fight in the cockpit.... Or perhaps a flock of migrating birds at 37,000 ft?

 

 

 

Greek defence sources are describing time frame between 03:27 to 03:29 as “critical point”, writes Helena Smith.

It was in this two minute period when the plane made a 90 degree swerve left and dropped from 37,000 feet to 15,000 feet before swerving 60 degrees right and vanishing at 10,000 feet ten to 15 miles inside Egyptian air space.

The Greek defence minister Panos Kammenos told reporters in Athens that the country had also scrambled F16 fighter jets to participate in the operation to locate the aircraft off the south eastern Aegean island of Karpathos.

Greek officials are hoping satellite footage may help locate the wreckage.

 

That says mechanical failure to me, but still doesn't explain the lack of contact or mayday signal. You'd hope that having such a good idea of the location, they'll be able to retrieve wreckage and the black box(es) far easier than in other cases. Particularly given the slower currents in the Med, compared to other, more open places like the Indian Ocean.

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Fox92

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Got to be an attempted hijacking surely. I know throughout history we've lost a lot of planes - some are still "missing" - but swerving in the air? Especially on a route from France to Cairo with everything that has been happening in recent months.

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leicsmac

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Not buying attempted hijacking, unless it was a lone nutter. Given how much more secure cockpit doors and procedures have become since 9/11, it seems to be much easier for terrorist groups just to put a bomb on board rather than a human who might screw up or not be successful. There's previous with such things, after all. 

 

And if it was a lone nutter, they did damned well to get into the cockpit and mess things up enough to cause a crash without being jumped by everyone else or a mayday signal being given.

 

Of course this is all just speculation right now, 

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Guest MattP

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Would a missile be out of the question?

 

Nothing out of the question.

 

Given what happened with the guy walking through security with a fake bomb a few months ago it could be anything.

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