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It looked like the same distance as Beijing would have been, plus they probably have 1.5 hours of extra fuel on board. I wonder if they ran out of fuel - obv depends on the route they took.

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03-20-2014 , 11:51 AM

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LOLCNN...

Pieces of debris in the Indian Ocean may be from Flight 370 or they may not be. Film at 11. Oh and we are only speculating at this point so let's bring in our resident Ocean Current Expert, Satellite Imagery Expert and Remote Sections of the Indian Ocean Experts to all say the same thing.

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03-20-2014 , 12:00 PM

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From what I heard, CNN's audience ratings have been sky high the last ten days because of this 24 hr MH370 coverage. They may finally have run out of ideas though. I expect the "ghost plane" scenario soon since they used the black hole one already.

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03-20-2014 , 12:05 PM

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found the Don Lemon black hole clip. lolz

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-don-...to-go-missing/

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03-20-2014 , 12:05 PM

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How did they not find the 9/11 ones given that they knew exactly where the planes hit? (non-conspiratard answers only please)

Do we need the flight data to determine what happened? Besides they arent designed for head on impacts at full speed and then to burn in an oven for a straight hour. Usually during a plane crash the black box is ejected from the plane due to the crash.

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03-20-2014 , 12:13 PM

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That sounds a lot like what they actually are designed for. And I don't think they're usually ejected during a crash.

However, they're NOT designed for hours/days of prolonged heat and being crushed by a massive building.

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03-20-2014 , 12:41 PM

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Look like MA shoudn't be so cheap with their technology:

http://www.ibtimes.com/malaysia-airl...-key-satellite

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The upgrade, which Malaysia Airlines decided not to purchase, has a wholesale price of only $10.90 for each flight. The upgrade for a system called Swift could have continued to send flight data by satellite even after MH370’s transponder and Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, were switched off, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing a satellite industry official with knowledge about the equipment.

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03-20-2014 , 01:52 PM

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I would have thought that as they're designed to survive an air crash, they are capable of withstanding huge forces. Was the impact just too much in that case?

e.g. they should be able to withstand the power of a volcanic eruption.

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If it did, do you not think that they would have dramatically narrowed down the search area by now (or at least before this debris was found)?

Afaik they can detect which satellite picked up the signal and where that satellite was, which goes a small way to locating where the signal was sent from (ie it couldn't have been from the opposite side of the Earth to the satellite), but that's about all.

Washington Post: Swift system

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A simple computer upgrade that Malaysia Airlines decided not to purchase would have provided critical information to help find the airliner that disappeared 12 days ago.

The upgrade, which wholesales for about $10 per flight, would have provided investigators with the direction, speed and altitude of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 even after other communications from the plane went dark, said a satellite industry official familiar with the equipment.

Data from a similar computer upgrade allowed investigators in the crash of an Air France jetliner in 2009 to quickly narrow their search area to a radius of about 40 miles in the Atlantic Ocean, and in five days, they found floating evidence of the crash.

EDIT: ha ha ha, RacersEdge beat me to it.

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03-20-2014 , 01:55 PM

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I woke up at 7:47 this morning.

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03-20-2014 , 02:01 PM

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Strangest thing -- at around 7:30 (EDT) this morning, WINS (in NY) reported that ABC said that those two images were (a) a freighter and (b) a group of dolphins. I guess that was a mistake? Not sure where they got that from. Nobody else has said that and it's not on the ABC site.

Looks like this is accurate, here they're even quoting the Commander of the P8 Poseidon.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malaysia-ai...itless-1441149

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03-20-2014 , 02:06 PM

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If the plane is hiding on some runway or elsewhere, I wonder how much the hijackers are laughing at the search attempts.

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03-20-2014 , 02:11 PM

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LOL at anyone who doesn't think with all the technology we have and all the attention given to air travel that some people don't know exactly what happened to that plane. Most likely explanation: there was someone on board that USA #1 wanted dead.

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03-20-2014 , 02:15 PM

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b/c sending Jason Bourne to kill someone as they drive to the airport is much, much harder to do than coercing a pilot/hijacking a plane, disabling coms, evading radar, killing 240 people, and hiding the plane in the Indian Ocean while gaining 24/7 worldwide media attention

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03-20-2014 , 02:17 PM

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and CNN.com doesn't have a word about dolphins

it's like since its a news dampener, they delay reporting it

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03-20-2014 , 02:19 PM

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and CNN.com doesn't have a word about dolphins

it's like since its a news dampener, they delay reporting it

Yea, it will be breaking news in the Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan Shows in the evening.

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03-20-2014 , 02:44 PM

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It's not news, it's CNN.

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03-20-2014 , 02:51 PM

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I think the article was concluding that the search is ongoing, not that the two objects spottd by satellite turned out to be a freighter and group of dolphins

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03-20-2014 , 02:53 PM

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any truth to the rumors that a group of terrorist dolphins have the plane?

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03-20-2014 , 03:08 PM

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any truth to the rumors that a group of alien dolphins have the plane?

obviously.

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03-20-2014 , 03:14 PM

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I think the article was concluding that the search is ongoing, not that the two objects spottd by satellite turned out to be a freighter and group of dolphins

I think that's right - the title is a little misleading