Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #1

[wfgodot]

3.30pm AEST At Beijing airport authorities have provided buses for relatives to go to a hotel about 15 kilometres away for further briefings. Associated Press reported one woman on the bus was weeping while saying on a mobile phone, “They want us to go to the hotel. It can’t be good!”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airlines-plane-live

 

[HMSHood]

Reminds me a lot of the Paris bound flight from Brazil (Peru?) - disappeared, and it took a long time for folks to find the crash site, and even far longer (2 years?) to recover the black boxes.

Prayers for everyone...

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Herding Cats

Air France Flight 447. It was from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447"]Air France Flight 447 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[Leilei]

O/T but in brighter news, they found the little girl who was missing from Maryland safe

Thought we could use something positive here.

 

[wfgodot]

3.46pm AEST Malaysia Airlines is pointing to an official page for “latest updates”, although so far there is little more than its media statement, which contains nothing that wasn’t known some time ago.

3.42pm AEST Here’s a basic map showing the area of the flight’s path. (continued at link with good map)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nes-plane-live#block-531a9ee0e4b0d71f92a45de0

 

[sleepinoz]

The Weather Centre ‏@TheWxCentre 20s

Vietnam media now quoting a Navy Admiral saying their radar recorded #MH370 crashing 153 miles south of Phu Quoc island.

 

[Leilei]

UPDATE [12:37]: Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.

http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing--says-airline-023820132.html

Updated

 

[HMSHood]

UPDATE [12:37]: Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.

http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraf...023820132.html

Updated

I get this from the link.

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Looks worse and worse.

 

[Linda7NJ]

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[Leilei]

Try this link, and I fixed the one in my above post (I hope):

http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing--says-airline-023820132.html

 

[MsFacetious]

The Weather Centre ‏@TheWxCentre 20s

Vietnam media now quoting a Navy Admiral saying their radar recorded #MH370 crashing 153 miles south of Phu Quoc island.

That is definitely water and consistent with 2 hours into that flight.
That is either The Gulf of Thailand or South China Sea, I'm not sure when it changes from one to the other.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kua...0x8aa79fbbdd72cdb!2m2!1d103.98402!2d10.289879

 

[Linda7NJ]

How bizarre


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[gregjrichards]

There are some reports now from Chinese media that the plane has been found 100 KM north of Ho Chi Minh. According to the report from witnesses it looked like a meteorite coming down. The place has a dense jungle and difficult access.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6013600#64


Just seen the above posted on the airliners message board I hope it isn't true that it came down like a meteorite.

 

[wfgodot]

3.57pm AEST Unconfirmed reports say Vietnamese media are reporting their navy has confirmed MH370 crashed into the ocean. There is a lot of unconfirmed information and speculation out there, but sadly this seems the most plausible outcome based on what we know so far.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airlines-plane-live

 

[CHERIE.T]

horrible,

 

[HMSHood]

Try this link, and I fixed the one in my above post (I hope):

http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing--says-airline-023820132.html

Now it works. Horrible.

 

[Leilei]

There are some reports now from Chinese media that the plane has been found 100 KM north of Ho Chi Minh. According to the report from witnesses it looked like a meteorite coming down. The place has a dense jungle and difficult access.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6013600#64


Just seen the above posted on the airliners message board I hope it isn't true that it came down like a meteorite.

So strange! That's like nine hours away, over land, from where the Viet Navy is reporting the plane went down. What on earth...

Everything in the media is going to be crazy until they actually find the plane, I guess.

 

[K_Z]

Breakdown of Citizenship

1. China - 152 + 1 Child
2. Malaysia - 38
3. Indonesia - 12
4. Australia - 7
5. France - 3
6. USA - 3 + 1 child
7. New Zealand - 2
8. Ukraine - 2
9. Canada - 2
10. Russia - 1
11. Italy - 1
12. Taiwan - 1
13. Holland - 1
14. Austria - 1

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6013600#menu77
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[wfgodot]

4.13pm AEST More from Tania Branigan in Beijing: China’s state media CCTV news says the country has dispatched two ships to assist with the search and rescue operation in the South China Sea.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airlines-plane-live

 

[Leilei]

My eyes are crossing from reading everything, so off to bed for me. Very sad news, but I'm going to hope that maybe, just maybe, there are survivors.

 

[Brightbird]

My eyes are crossing from reading everything, so off to bed for me. Very sad news, but I'm going to hope that maybe, just maybe, there are survivors.

Survivors would be amazing. I hope that at the very least the whole ordeal was over as quickly as possible for everyone on board. I get chills thinking about being in that situation.