Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #11

[Leilei]

Troy McCullough ‏@TroyWSJ 1m

More from Australia: Ships, planes swarm to site. Largest object is 24 meters. Authorities not certain it's #MH370 http://on.wsj.com/1nFoywt

I know they're not going to say "HERE IT IS" until they can get actual confirmation, but honestly, what else could it be?

 

[Forensics]

What does "awash" mean, as in the objects were awash?

Water is washing over the object

 

[Summerfun]

This is the real deal. They have found the plane. This was a very detailed
press conference. No more BS by Malaysia.

 

[aa9511]

The wingspan on a 777 is 199 ft 11 in (60.9 m). That's from the tip of one wing to the other. So 78 feet is just short of one wing I'd think.

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/777family/pf/pf_300product.page

OMG that sounds like the plane just hit the water....as in run out of fuel?? :scared:

 

[sleepinoz]

have you seen the men there....? OMG

Can anyone bring up a map of where they are?

Us women are pretty good as well. :floorlaugh:

 

[gregjrichards]

Statement just released by Malaysian Defence Minister

Press statement by Minister of Defence and acting Minister of Transport Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein
“At 10:00 this morning, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak received a call from Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia, informing him that ‘two possible objects related to the search’ for MH370 had been identified in the Southern Indian Ocean. The Australian High Commissioner has also briefed me on the situation.
“At this stage, Australian officials have yet to establish whether these objects are indeed related to the search for MH370.”


Read more: MISSING MH370: Statement by Hishammuddin on objects found in Indian Ocean - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-c...=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz2wTXdmmPh

 

[Leilei]

ANy of you that have been doing that crowd sourcing stuff can you do something

I wish... I think they only give you random tiles to search.

 

[revampz]

Watching CNN covering interviews from Austrailia. Boy, I love their accent. Ive always wanted to visit that country. Seem like really nice people.

Yes come on down....we are mostly nice people, there are a couple of nutters.....you think that accent is good, wait until you go out bush!!

 

[Snoods]

Piers is on vacation this week.

Piers Morgan? CNN thinks they've let him go lol.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/23/news/piers-morgan-cnn/

 

[Derryn Hunch]

have you seen the men there....? OMG

Can anyone bring up a map of where they are?

What? The men??? SURE!!! hahahaha

 

[momrids6]

Apparently this was Australian satellite imagery.

And he said they sent the commercial satellite service there to get some more high res images

 

[Summerfun]

Just a thought but this will absolutely bankrupt this airline.
No one will ever step on a plane by them again.

 

[lawstudent]

OMG that sounds like the plane just hit the water....as in run out of fuel?? :scared:

If it hit the water wouldn't it be smashed to bits?


As for what else it could be - they suggested cargo that fell off a ship - I just thought it was weird they're already giving alternative explanations. I don't think it's sinister, but I don't get it.

 

[alioop]

Seems like you have called it Derryn. It does make sense now to me in hindsight that they wouldn't send an Australian aircraft 3000 Kms late in the afternoon, to do only a couple of hours of general searching before they had to head back unless they were checking something specific. Either that or my accidental tag in the Indian Ocean that I didn't know how to delete on Tomnod did the trick!

Let's hope its wreckage from the plane.

 

[sleepinoz]

http://www.news.com.au/world/possib...identify-objects/story-fndir2ev-1226859680610

 

[Hatfield]

What does "awash" mean, as in the objects were awash?

I know this was answered by others but wanted to give my take.

IMO
A piece basically floating but waves and water going over the top at times. Kind of like if you threw a wooden oar from a canoe in the water.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

This is the real deal. They have found the plane. This was a very detailed
press conference. No more BS by Malaysia.

Yeah, I think so too. Sending lots of assets over and PM does a little victory speech in parliament.

P.S. Love the puppy! :loveyou:

 

[songline]

Funny that you mentioned Bin Laden, that really got swept under the carpet.
Somehow nobody cared to investigate it further.
The whole story was unbelievable.
Not one substantial picture of him dead.
And they threw him in the sea to respect his religion.
How ridiculous is that.

I mention it because media keeps on treating us like we are all dumb.
Well.... some are, and some are not.
It took them how long to notice that this plane was off radar?????

NOP the entire story is fiction.
the real story is what we do not know - Just like Bin Laden.

 

[momrids6]

Us women are pretty good as well. :floorlaugh:

Minga, y'all are hot, we get it , with a sexy accent... find a map- metric and I do not get along :floorlaugh:

Oops- I forgot you already knew my metric system fail- you posted it while I was typing! Thank you !

 

[CARIIS]

Hey they mentioned ditching --- the debris field is usually a lot smaller if the plane impacts in that manner as oppossed to a dive or high speed stall