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Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

CNN posted:

A passenger flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing and would likely have run out of fuel, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday.

"At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now," Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad Sharuji said on CNN's "AC360."

Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact with Flight MH370 at about 2:40 a.m. local time (1:40 p.m. ET Friday), Sharuji said.
Quest: Odd to lose contact while cruising Plane loses contact with airline

"We tried to call this aircraft through various means," he said.

The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip. It was carrying 227 passengers, two of them infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said.
The passengers are of 13 nationalities, the airline said.

At the time of its disappearance, the plane was carrying about 7.5 hours of fuel, Sharuji said.

"Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft," the statement said. The public can call +603 7884 1234 for further information.

Efforts to contact the plane were fruitless.

"We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts" with the jet, said CEO Ahmad Juahari Yahya in a statement.

The airline said in a statement that its representatives were contacting the relatives of those aboard. "Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilize its full support," it said.

"We're closely monitoring reports on Malaysia flight MH370," Boeing said in a tweet. "Our thoughts are with everyone on board."

"It doesn't sound very good," retired American Airlines Capt. Jim Tilmon told CNN's "AC360." He noted that the route is mostly overland, which means that there would be plenty of antennae, radar and radios to contact the plane.

"I've been trying to come up with every scenario that I could just to explain this away, but I haven't been very successful."

He said the plane is "about as sophisticated as any commercial airplane could possibly be," with an excellent safety record.

There is one recent blemish: An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 291 passengers struck a seawall at San Francisco International Airport in July 2013, killing three people and wounding dozens more.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that Chinese aviation authorities had confirmed that 160 Chinese nationals were aboard the plane, which was lost from radar in airspace controlled by Vietnam.

China's embassy in Malaysia has formed an emergency team headed by the Chinese ambassador to deal with the incident, it said.
Malaysia Airlines operates in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and on the route between Europe and Australasia.

It has 15 of the Boeing 777-200 planes in its fleet, CNN's Richard Quest reported.

How do you misplace a 777 traveling around the China Sea? Or a 777 in general? I mean the Air France thing was kind of explainable although I was kind of surprised it didn't have better GPS/Sat communication but I would figure China would totally be on that poo poo.

China is now saying they lost radar contact over Vietnam but come on, have we been giving their military way too much credit for years?

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Samuel L. ACKSYN: Feb 29, 2008

something something aliens ufos hth op

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gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

not sure how I would know someone on that plane

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roboshit: Apr 4, 2009

i bet if u asked obama hed denied it. wake up sheeple

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gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

Viet Cong shot it down

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Whirlwind Jones: Apr 13, 2013; by Lowtax

gnarlyhotep posted:

not sure how I would know someone on that plane

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Nanomashoes: Aug 18, 2012

gnarlyhotep posted:

not sure how I would know someone on that plane

The person on that plane... was Hitler.

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Vacation Tenzin: Jan 23, 2005; I'M TOTALLY CALM AND RELAXED.

I might know someone on that plane *checks all 14 facebook friends*

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SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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2spooky I flew with them 5 times last year :spooky:

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Ginette Reno: Nov 18, 2006; How Doers get more done; Fun Shoe

Vacation Tenzin posted:

I might know someone on that plane *checks all 14 facebook friends*

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Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

Picnic Princess posted:

2spooky I flew with them 5 times last year

My mom has mused that she'd like to see the Great Wall someday, she could have been on that plane! Close calls like this really make you think.

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Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

4 Americans including 1 infant :911:

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whoflungpoop: Sep 9, 2004; With you and the constellations

a non-zero amount of people have spent their life's final moments in an airplane bathroom

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Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Im sure I knew no one on it. But I feel sorry for every one who died. And Their families

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Corkscrew: May 20, 2001; Nothing happened. I'm Julius Pepperwood. Let it go.

Three Olives posted:

How do you misplace a 777 traveling around the China Sea? Or a 777 in general? I mean the Air France thing was kind of explainable although I was kind of surprised it didn't have better GPS/Sat communication but I would figure China would totally be on that poo poo.

Air France flight was an Airbus A330 not a 777 hth

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Supreme Allah: Oct 6, 2004; everybody relax, i'm here; Nap Ghost

I'm hearing online web rumors it landed in China, and China's keeping the plane + the passengers.

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Whirlwind Jones: Apr 13, 2013; by Lowtax

Pumpy Muffinz posted:

Im sure I knew no one on it. But I feel sorry for every one who died. And Their families

I don't.

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roboshit: Apr 4, 2009

Pumpy Muffinz posted:

Im sure I knew no one on it. But I feel sorry for every one who died. And Their families

Lol checck this guy and his feelings

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goatse.cx: Nov 21, 2013

Supreme Allah posted:

I'm hearing online web rumors it landed in China, and China's keeping the plane + the passengers.

why would china do that

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Whirlwind Jones: Apr 13, 2013; by Lowtax

Supreme Allah posted:

I'm hearing online web rumors it landed in China, and China's keeping the plane + the passengers.

I'm hearing online web rumors that you're gay and you want to suck my dick off.

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roboshit: Apr 4, 2009

goatse.cx posted:

why would china do that

because we didnt get tough on them like romney wanted to

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Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

Corkscrew posted:

Air France flight was an Airbus A330 not a 777 hth

Yeah but that was in the middle of nowhere in the ocean out of contact from ground radar, this was over land/the China sea.

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Fat Lowtax: Nov 9, 2008; "I'm willing to pay up to $1200 for a big anime titty"

sorry

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The Taint Reaper: Sep 4, 2012; by Shine

goatse.cx posted:

why would china do that

Their secret black market supply of human organs was running dangeriously low. That and there's a bunch of BODIES exhibits coming up for 2014 and nobody committed any heinous crimes to be worthy of being abducted by the black van.

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roboshit: Apr 4, 2009

I dont give a poo poo about all those people that died. I loled a lot when i read about it infact. im a complete sociopath and dont have feelings

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naem: May 29, 2011

The aristocrats

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gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

somebody turned their drat cellphone on and bam, crash

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Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

roboshit posted:

Lol checck this guy and his feelings

Whoops. sorry

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dentist toy box: Oct 9, 2012; There's a haint in the foothills of NC; the haint of the #3 chevy. The rich have formed a holy alliance to exorcise it but they'll never fucking catch him.

I'm going with ghost/magic until I hear otherwise.

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The Taint Reaper: Sep 4, 2012; by Shine

Yeah I'm having trouble finding genuine news stories on this, every one I read has a perspective that's rather slanted.

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ethanol: Jul 13, 2007

777 found alive in cuba. Reported havana good time

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Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

gnarlyhotep posted:

somebody turned their drat cellphone on and bam, crash

Probably WiFi on a Kindle.

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Al Cowens: Aug 11, 2004; by WE B Bourgeois

roboshit posted:

I dont give a poo poo about all those people that died. I loled a lot when i read about it infact. im a complete sociopath and dont have feelings

* crysis suit voice* MAXIMUM EDGE
They probably deserved it, imo.

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Corey Plumper: Nov 22, 2008

roboshit posted:

I dont give a poo poo about all those people that died. I loled a lot when i read about it infact. im a complete sociopath and dont have feelings

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spasticColon: Sep 22, 2004; In loving memory of Donald Pleasance

Probably pilot error like that crash landing at the San Fran airport.

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Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

The Taint Reaper posted:

Yeah I'm having trouble finding genuine news stories on this, every one I read has a perspective that's rather slanted.

Aviation/Meth expert Richard Quest is on CNN International right now keeping you updated. Al Jazeera, regular CNN and MSNBC got bored.

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Zippy the Bummer: Dec 14, 2008; Silent Majority
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LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

occam's razor tells us that the simplest explanation is probably correct so i'm going with "plane ceased to exist for no reason"

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Whirlwind Jones: Apr 13, 2013; by Lowtax

spasticColon posted:

Probably pilot error like that crash landing at the San Fran airport.

Remember when the fire truck drove over that survivor's body? lmbo.

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Fat Lowtax: Nov 9, 2008; "I'm willing to pay up to $1200 for a big anime titty"

Sabel posted:

* crysis suit voice* MAXIMUM EDGE
They probably deserved it, imo.

why didn't that plane crash into you

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whoflungpoop: Sep 9, 2004; With you and the constellations

The Taint Reaper posted:

Yeah I'm having trouble finding genuine news stories on this, every one I read has a perspective that's rather slanted.

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