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Posted: 3/7/2014 7:55:19 PM EDT
Aircraft Missing
Edited title to remove "Breaking News" and reflect timing of this event since the thread is now a couple of years old - HS |
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Ouch. that's bad news. Really not much hope for those people in this case.
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The apparent lack of an emergency call interests me. How often do airliners go down without getting off a mayday?
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Rapture ?
Probably not . My prayers out for their families and loved ones |
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Can a 777 turn off it's transponder and run silent? Could it have defected?
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3 hours late now, anyone have any idea if its possible they have enough fuel to even still be in the sky?
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Can a 777 turn off it's transponder and run silent? Could it have defected? View Quote Well, they gotta come down somewhere and it's kind of hard to hide an 800,000 lb. airplane. As for no radio contact, you have the VHF emergency frequency, SATCOM and even HF. Most of the way from Malaysia to PEK is over or near land, I think. Plus, that airplane sends automatic position reports via datalink with the SATCOM. Pretty well connected. Not good. TC |
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My guess is it went down, should have landed in Beijing almost 3 hours ago.
Prayers for the passengers and crew that I am wrong. |
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I suspect that you can find multiple fatal crashes were there was no mayday.
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Fuck.
First time getting on a plane is here soon and I'll be flying in that area... Hope everything is well... |
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I sort of assumed that - these days - aircraft constantly communicate their positions to their respective agencies via a satellite data link.
Is that not the case? |
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I sort of assumed that - these days - aircraft constantly communicate their positions to their respective agencies via a satellite data link. Is that not the case? View Quote It is. So unless they had some kind of catastrophic electrical system failure, if it were in the sky it would be pinging. Unless they had to divert to/got missile tested by Best Korea. |
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yea, I saw that show. not too bad. ending was dumb. is this a reboot? http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070303221756/lostpedia/images/1/16/Lost-season1.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
yea, I saw that show. not too bad. ending was dumb. is this a reboot? http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070303221756/lostpedia/images/1/16/Lost-season1.jpg Real fucking classy. |
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It is. So unless they had some kind of catastrophic electrical system failure, if it were in the sky it would be pinging. Unless they had to divert to/got missile tested by Best Korea. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I sort of assumed that - these days - aircraft constantly communicate their positions to their respective agencies via a satellite data link. Is that not the case? It is. So unless they had some kind of catastrophic electrical system failure, if it were in the sky it would be pinging. Unless they had to divert to/got missile tested by Best Korea. They were way off course if they were close to North Korea. |
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*edit* posted that when I assumed it was "breaking" gd news that doesn't pan out. Hope the reports of a safe landing are true.
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Dad just flew from Chengdu-hongkong-LAX-Corpus-LAX-Honolulu. Flying is pretty damn safe. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Fuck. First time getting on a plane is here soon and I'll be flying in that area... Hope everything is well... Dad just flew from Chengdu-hongkong-LAX-Corpus-LAX-Honolulu. Flying is pretty damn safe. So are pit bulls... Except when they aren't. |
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