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Weird and sad story. Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was at 35000 feet enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and loses contact with Air Traffic Control about 2 hours into the flight. It was due to land 8 hours ago. No Mayday call or no contact with anyone.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

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03-08-2014 , 02:08 AM

Nohavecards

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yeah i dont understand how a plane can just lose radio contact completely, dont they have backup power to run the systems? unless... it was something incredible that just absolutely annihilated the plane so they had no chance at all to do anything like call mayday.

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03-08-2014 , 02:14 AM

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hijacked by the pilot?

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03-08-2014 , 02:19 AM

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03-08-2014 , 02:25 AM

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Latest unconfirmed reports say it crashed in South China sea. Considering it was at 35000 feet at one time and there was no contact at all, there must have been some massive system failure including communications or something destructive occurred in flight. Even with loss of all engines, they could still have issued Mayday/distress call... very odd.....

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03-08-2014 , 02:25 AM

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Sounds like it crashed it to the ocean. Can't imagine anyone survived.

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03-08-2014 , 02:28 AM

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The plane crashed off Vietnam's Tho Chu Island, northwest off the country’s southernmost Cape Ca Mau, the Vietnamese High Command of Navy has announced.
According to a High Command of Navy statement, the plane went down at the waters between Vietnam and Malaysia, some 153 nautical miles (300km) off Tho Chu Island in Kien Giang Province.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/australi...308-hvgnx.html

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03-08-2014 , 02:55 AM

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Hopefully they didn't suffer too much.. RIP

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03-08-2014 , 03:08 AM

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Damn I read "239" and thought you meant the guy from the Amanda Knox thread.

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03-08-2014 , 03:29 AM

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i cannot fathom the absolute horror of those last few minutes. nightmare.

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03-08-2014 , 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by willie

i cannot fathom the absolute horror of those last few minutes. nightmare.

Really? I think on the scale of varies ways that a person will eventually die, a plane crash isn't that bad.

Definitely ahead of any type of cancer, dementia, ALS, etc...

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03-08-2014 , 03:57 AM

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Free falling 35k ft to your death would be horrific.

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03-08-2014 , 04:01 AM

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Donald Sanger

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How da **** does a plane " go missing" ?

Im looking forward to hearing this black box if they ever find it

2 infants, jeez horrible

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03-08-2014 , 04:05 AM

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Not to nit pick but if the plane broke open you would black out in like 5 or 10 seconds at that altitude.

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03-08-2014 , 04:27 AM

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Yeah, I haven't read any coverage outside of this thread, but first thing I thought of was Payne Stewart: everyone on board lost consciousness pretty much at once, and a plane manned by unconscious people can't be helped.

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03-08-2014 , 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Donald Sanger

How da **** does a plane " go missing" ?

Im looking forward to hearing this black box if they ever find it

2 infants, jeez horrible

Paging W0X0F from his epic AMA thread. It just seems impossible that in this day and age a plane would disappear without a trace even for a short period of time.

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03-08-2014 , 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny

first thing I thought of was Payne Stewart: everyone on board lost consciousness pretty much at once, and a plane manned by unconscious people can't be helped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_So..._Learjet_crash

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On October 25, 1999, a chartered Learjet 35 was scheduled to fly from Orlando, Florida to Dallas, Texas. Early in the flight the aircraft, which was cruising at altitude on autopilot, quickly lost cabin pressure. All on board were incapacitated due to hypoxia — a lack of oxygen. The aircraft failed to make the westward turn toward Dallas over north Florida. It continued flying over the southern and midwestern United States for almost four hours and 1,500 miles (2,400 km). The plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Aberdeen, South Dakota after an uncontrolled descent.

EDIT TO ADD: Just read that whole Wiki page, including the NTSB's "We don't know, but it was probably..." findings. The page also lists similar accidents, all involving small planes, and one 737 in 2005 in Greece.

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03-08-2014 , 06:01 AM

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This is the black box recording of flight 123 that killed the most ever....so chilling. This is just from the cockpit so I can't imagine everyone on the plane screaming and everything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123

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03-08-2014 , 06:16 AM

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Listening to that about gave me a heart attack.

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03-08-2014 , 06:17 AM

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Have read a lot about that plane crash before. Not going to listen to that.

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03-08-2014 , 08:27 AM

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I wish I hadn't listened to that. The pilots seemed to have tried everything to recover the plane. So sad....

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03-08-2014 , 10:12 AM

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I listened and I wish I didn't. That's nasty.

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03-08-2014 , 10:29 AM

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I wish I heeded the advice of those above.

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03-08-2014 , 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by willie

i cannot fathom the absolute horror of those last few minutes. nightmare.

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Originally Posted by Mark_K

Really? I think on the scale of varies ways that a person will eventually die, a plane crash isn't that bad.

Definitely ahead of any type of cancer, dementia, ALS, etc...

You, sir, are a ****ing idiot.

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03-08-2014 , 10:38 AM

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Wow, this is horrifying. Definitely paging w0x0f for some insider speculation. I just flew this same airline and model from KL a week ago. We got in a pretty insane thunderstorm and that was (after having flown ~300 times, still) pretty damn terrible, even that everyone still knew it was pretty standard. I can't imagine what these people would have gone through