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

[MsFacetious]

Press conference delayed.... 8 minutes...

 

[Leilei]

It is really hard to find info on things that are happening in other countries.
Errors are to be expected. :seeya:

Thanks, MsF

I'm reading at a pilot forum, and yeah, they're saying it doesn't look good. If they had landed safely they would have announced it by now.

 

[wfgodot]

Melbourne's The Age link, nothing substantially new from above:

Malaysia Airlines plane missing with more than 200 passengers on board

"Emergency landing in Nanming" story discounted.

 

[Leilei]

per CNN: Safe emergency landing report is not true.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Press conference at the top of the hour ... per CNN

 

[Spellbound]

per CNN: Safe emergency landing report is not true.

A Malaysian Airlines spokesperson on CNN said that report was not true, just a rumor. Still do not know where the plane is.

 

[MsFacetious]

Never mind...delayed again, in 13 minutes.

 

[MsFacetious]

I wonder if they went slightly off course and went into the South China Sea just past Thailand.
Or maybe into the Gulf of Thailand... though it sounds like they got further away than that.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kua...xb9625620af0fa98a!2m2!1d116.407526!2d39.90403

 

[MsFacetious]

CNN Live:

Last contact could mean it went into the South China Sea.
Flight was at 35,000 feet.
Weather was good, light precipitation well below altitude.
Last problem with Malaysia plane was in 1995 when one crashed into the city killing 34 people.

 

[Herding Cats]

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...

Best-
Herding Cats

 

[MsFacetious]

CNN:

No sign of issues... was at 35,000 feet, cruising speed.
No contact with anyone gave any indication of issues.
Must leave every possibility open because this plane came out of the sky, from cruising altitude without the crew getting a mayday off.

 

[Spellbound]

CNN Live:

Last contact could mean it went into the South China Sea.
Flight was at 35,000 feet.
Weather was good, light precipitation well below altitude.
Last problem with Malaysia plane was in 1995 when one crashed into the city killing 34 people.

Oh no! If it went into the ocean, there may be no sign of it. Don't planes have some kind of tracking device for situations like this? I don't know much about how these things work nowadays.

I thought I'd heard earlier they would not have been over water, but I cannot remember who said that. It just seems in the haste to be first to report news, too many mistakes are put out.

I will pop back soon. Please post if anyone hears any more info. Thank you.

 

[wfgodot]

Sky News link:

Malaysia Airlines Plane 'Loses Contact'

The carrier said it was working with the authorities who have activated their search and rescue teams to locate the aircraft.

It is also contacting the next-of-kin of the passengers and crew.
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[sleepinoz]

From the SMH link:

An unconfirmed report from a flight tracking website said the plane had plunged more than 200 metres and changed course in the last minute that it had transmitted data.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysi...rs-on-board-20140308-hvgnx.html#ixzz2vKwLKG2F

 

[MsFacetious]

They lost contact 2 hours into the flight... it's hard to tell whether they would be over water.

If you look at the map, they lost contact over Vietnamese air space.
Just to the right of the flight path would be easy to go into that water if they veered right...
I believe it would have been more than 2 hours into the flight though.
It shouldn't have been over water, in my totally uneducated opinion.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kua...xb9625620af0fa98a!2m2!1d116.407526!2d39.90403

The guy on Fox John Goglia, former NTSB said that area is very remote...
So it COULD have gone down on land without being noticed.
So water or remote area... neither being wonderful options.
The guy on Fox also also said you can't rule out terrorism since a lot of the passenger were Chinese.

Jon Scott a former pilot and Fox anchor... said someone said it veered off course and dropped 600 feet.
I wish we knew which way it veered off... to the right might mean water. The left would mean land.

The presser has still not started....

 

[Leilei]

From The Aviation Herald:

http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0

Aviation sources in China report that radar data suggest a steep and sudden descent of the aircraft, during which the track of the aircraft changed from 024 degrees to 333 degrees. The aircraft was estimated to contact Ho Chi Minh Control Center (Vietnam) at 01:20L, but contact was never established.

Yikes.

 

[MsFacetious]

From The Aviation Herald:

http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0

Aviation sources in China report that radar data suggest a steep and sudden descent of the aircraft, during which the track of the aircraft changed from 024 degrees to 333 degrees. The aircraft was estimated to contact Ho Chi Minh Control Center (Vietnam) at 01:20L, but contact was never established.

Yikes.

Anyone know what that means... which way it changed course? East or West?

 

[sleepinoz]

Approximate Flight path on this link, don't think they are actually that close to the water.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/trave...light-to-beijing/story-fniztvng-1226848860442

 

[MsFacetious]

CNN, HLN, MSNBC and FOX have all stopped covering this before the press conference. :sigh:

Press Conference here:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/coming-malaysian-airlines-holds-presser-n47606

 

[MsFacetious]

3 passengers and 1 infant from the USA... sorry I didn't catch all the rest.