Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

[Vaud]

As I understand it the single expert that could 100% verify was on holiday... hence the delay.

[Eric Mc]

It was almost always going to be from the aircraft - but it always takes time to confirm these things.

[Frik]

Especially in August.

[s3fella]

Frik said:

Especially in August.

In France....

[Puggit]

s3fella said:

Frik said:

Especially in August.

In France....

[Puggit]

Most likely a nutjob - but got to report it! Report of discovery of an MH plane in remote Philippine island near Borneo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269008/Pl...

[CAPP0]

Puggit said:

Most likely a nutjob - but got to report it! Report of discovery of an MH plane in remote Philippine island near Borneo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269008/Pl...

Blimey, just when you thought the Mail couldn't get any more pathetic. What a ridiculous waste of column inches/pixels. that's right up there with "Freddy Star ate my hamster in a bus on the moon".

[FourWheelDrift]

Maybe this person has found the Hawaii Clipper - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Clipper

It's the only lost aircraft known to have gone down over or near the Philiipines that wasn't a cargo C-47 or small A-12 based on this list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_airc...


Or most likely nothing at all.

[TheLuke]

The Phillipenes are no where near the intended flight path, and can someone confirm if it was even in the planes range from where it lost contact, either way, highly unlikely its the MH.

[davepoth]

TheLuke said:

The Phillipenes are no where near the intended flight path, and can someone confirm if it was even in the planes range from where it lost contact, either way, highly unlikely its the MH.

Well in range.

[Langweilig]

A pearl of wisdom from the Wail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269008/Pl...

Well is it? Or isn't it? Knowing the Daily Mail, it probably isn't.

[anonymous-user]

Langweilig said:

A pearl of wisdom from the Wail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269008/Pl...

Well is it? Or isn't it? Knowing the Daily Mail, it probably isn't.

Blimey, just when you thought the Mail couldn't get any more pathetic. What a ridiculous waste of column inches/pixels. that's right up there with "Freddy Star ate my hamster in a bus on the moon".

[CAPP0]

Jimboka said:

Langweilig said:

A pearl of wisdom from the Wail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269008/Pl...

Well is it? Or isn't it? Knowing the Daily Mail, it probably isn't.

Blimey, just when you thought the Mail couldn't get any more pathetic. What a ridiculous waste of column inches/pixels. that's right up there with "Freddy Star ate my hamster in a bus on the moon".

Er….

[Scuffers]

just watched the Dutch presentation of their crash report.

Very details and specific, even down to the type and class of warhead on the missile and exactly where it was when it exploded.

they also tied down it's launch site reasonably tightly.

Russia as screaming bullst and trying to maintain the argument it was an air-to-air missile, but they comprehensively demonstrate that's bull

[oobster]

Scuffers, wrong thread mate, this is the MH370 thread.

[marshalla]

Malaysian Airbus flies in wrong direction, pilot doesn't notice : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id...

[anonymous-user]

marshalla said:

Malaysian Airbus flies in wrong direction, pilot doesn't notice : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id...

seems a non story thou.

'Flights on the route often travel around the bottom of Australia to avoid bad weather or head-winds, Clark said.

"The pilot was probably not used to going that far south."

WeatherWatch head analyst Philip Duncan said he flew out of Auckland this week in "perfect conditions". A large high was settling across the Tasman Sea.

The weather between New Zealand and Kuala Lumpur was "fairly calm", but Duncan said thunderstorms across northern Australia and Papua New Guinea may have influenced Malaysia Airlines' preferred route.'

[FourWheelDrift]

Normal route blue, their route red (it might have been straighter than I've drawn it).

Am I right, with the curvature of the earth would there wouldn't be much difference in distance?

[Riley Blue]

marshalla said:

Malaysian Airbus flies in wrong direction, pilot doesn't notice : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id...

The pilot did notice, eight minutes into the flight when he queried it - so the report you linked to reads.

[TheGuru]

FourWheelDrift said:

Normal route blue, their route red (it might have been straighter than I've drawn it).

Am I right, with the curvature of the earth would there wouldn't be much difference in distance?

Nothing at all unusual about the flight path going under Australia, I fly MEL-SIN at least monthly and it's one of the regular routes. Have never seen them fly West of Jakarta though, that would be my only comment. Usually overfly Bali on the way up and overfly mid-Java on the way back down.