Malaysia Air Flight 370

[Johnny]

Satellites may have the ability to see anywhere, but this doesn't mean they can see everywhere at once. Ever talked on a sat phone?

The amount of bandwidth required to transmit that information would be so huge there would be a gigantic portion of the entire budget to support it.

They found the Titanic using sonar, 70 years after it sank. So I guess because of 'technology' a missing 777 should be found in like four days?

People want to believe far fetched things like conspiracies and intrigue because reality is just too boring I guess.

Who sent you? What agency do you work for?

 

[0311]

A fisherman said he saw it flying low over the water. This suggests a loss of power, and possibly a controlled ditching of the aircraft. But I suspect once the water hit the air intakes on those massive jet engines, the wings would shear off, and everything would sink, maybe pretty much intact. If the water isn't real deep, the hull might not implode, and a debris field may not escape to the surface.


Edit: But jet fuel would escape to the surface, and depending on surface turbulence leave a slick.

 

[rhodesbe]

Screw me, you guys have me all sweaty and drooly. Everyone gets an A+ today!

You played me too easy. sheesh.

 

[SMS]

If the combined might of the Vietnamese and Malaysian armed forces can't find it (along with help from one or two of our ships)...then it MUST be a conspiracy.

 

[KOPBET]

Kirk and Spock were trying to beam up whales into a Klingon vessel and got the airplane by mistake.

 

[0311]

Kirk and Spock were trying to beam up whales into a Klingon vessel and got the airplane by mistake.

I think you're going to hit 5000 today, KOPBET. The Magic 5!

 

[jstaylor62]

A fisherman said he saw it flying low over the water. This suggests a loss of power, and possibly a controlled ditching of the aircraft. But I suspect once the water hit the air intakes on those massive jet engines, the wings would shear off, and everything would sink, maybe pretty much intact. If the water isn't real deep, the hull might not implode, and a debris field may not escape to the surface.

But there would have been May Day calls on the radio if it was a controlled descent ...

 

[KOPBET]

Yay! I get my Stinkin Badge!!

But I have a feeling a bunch will go away in April after they delete the Giveaway thread...

 

[0311]

But there would have been May Day calls on the radio if it was a controlled descent ...

There are even reports that it had turned around and was headed back.

 

[TedKennedy]

And the guvmint would "let it go" to avoid a war? When has our guvmint gone out of its way to avoid a war?