Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #12

[gregjrichards]

Breaking news

Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.

The airline said in a statement that flight MH370 disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26492748

I'm praying the plane is found and people on the plane survive.

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[04009margaret]

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/

 

[kimi_SFC]

Bringing this over from the last thread:

Originally Posted by CarmelEyesD
:-(

http://www.abc15.com/news/national/m...arch-for-plane


"The objects are indistinct but of "reasonable size" -- the largest about 24 meters long (79 feet), said John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. They were "probably awash with water and bobbing up and down," he said.

"If that piece of the plane is that big, maybe it's the tail section" David Gallo, who co-led the search for Air France Flight 447 which crashed in 2009 in the Indian Ocean and remained out of sight for two years. The tail height of a Boeing 777 is 60 feet."


kimi_SFC:
Embedded video of presser (from article)
http://youtu.be/z8RrUFXgOTQ

 

[MLO]

Aviation expert thinks it might be part of tail or wing. http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/22080141/experts-view-on-sightings/

 

[squeaky]

Press sitting in the front row at the press conference have all been cleared out to make room for "senior officials"

 

[kimi_SFC]

Debris Discovery May Be Linked to Flight MH370
video@link

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8817408/debris-discovery-may-be-linked-to-flight-mh370

 

[ToutCa]

A Plea For the "Witch Doctors".

There's no argument against the fact it was bad PR for the Malaysian government to invite some shamans to the Kuala Lumpur airport to perform spiritual rites for MH-370 in front of journalists.

But it's good to remember that many countries have large parts of their populations that practice traditional folk religions. The heads of the folk religions are spiritual leaders and figures of community bonding and healing.

In times of tragedy, ceremonies by shamans are just as comforting for their believers as the spiritual support of priests or ministers are to those of other faiths.

 

[kincaid]

Don't think this had been posted before.

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Another quote.

The "flying pilot's" job in an emergency such as this would be to point the airplane at the closest acceptable runway, announce to the world the nature of the emergency (ATC) and request help, and begin a descent so that at some point during the process, an attempt to vent the smoke from the cabin could be done.

Basically, none of this was done. This leads me to believe that there was no emergency of this type. For this type of emergency to be in play, it indicates that the cockpit crew would have had to willfully refused to follow their training and checklists to combat the emergency.

Airborne smoke and fire emergencies are extremely serious, and are trained for by every airline crew in the world. In the wake of SwissAir 111, which crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia, we know that a flight crew has a very limited period of time in which they must land the plane before disaster... only 14 minutes in the SwissAir tragedy... yet MH370 continued to fly for more than 7 hours after contact was lost. This is yet another clue that points away from an in flight physical, mechanical or other type of emergency

http://www.businessinsider.in/Home/777-PILOT-Im-Sorry-But-Im-Just-Not-Buying-The-Smoke-In-The-Cockpit-Theory/articleshow/32314435.cms

 

[ToutCa]

Press sitting in the front row at the press conference have all been cleared out to make room for "senior officials"

Does anyone have a live link to the press conference?

 

[Waddles]

Debris Discovery May Be Linked to Flight MH370
video@link

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8817408/debris-discovery-may-be-linked-to-flight-mh370

is this playing? I don't have video

 

[MLO]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/ This appears to be the live presser

 

[newone]

Does anyone have a live link to the press conference?

http://news.sky.com/templates/watch-live

 

[04009margaret]

is this playing? I don't have video

Link works, just wait for the video to appear in the top black box

 

[MLO]

is this playing? I don't have video

When I checked it appeared to just be an interview with Dick Smith.

Presser sounds exactly like our one done hours ago. Nothing new.

 

[fruity]

With all the links everywhere, I didn't know if this is well known outside Australia (or even outside my personal circle). I think it must be, because there are books and shows about it. I know lots about it because I know the de Crespigny family.

http://mobile.news.com.au/travel/tr...viation-disaster/story-fnizu68q-1226860221061

 

[Waddles]

Link works, just wait for the video to appear in the top black box

Thank you, I tried waiting but it won't play for me, maybe doesn't work in France for some reason

 

[newone]

Well sky news isn't telling me anything new except I am pleased to hear that they are beefing up on helping the families by bringing more officials in to talk to them -- that's pretty much all they can do.

Here's hoping they find something substantive......tomorrow at least

 

[MLO]

Well sky news isn't telling me anything new except I am pleased to hear that they are beefing up on helping the families by bringing more officials in to talk to them -- that's pretty much all they can do.

Here's hoping they find something substantive......tomorrow at least

I think they probably know for certain. Australia is funny like that, we don't usually have daily press conferences, or get drip fed information. Stuff is usually announced once all the facts are known. I'm surprised we got a press conference just for "could possibly be related".