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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess
Does anyone know the answer to this?

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ORIGINAL: rockspider

Four days and they have not found any wreckage tells me it is unlikely the disaster has happened over the sea. A modern aircraft has hundreds if not thousands of things on board with a specific gravity below one. That means it floats. One thing is the lifejackets, which also floats if not inflated. They are also made in the most glaring visible colors to make them easy to spot. It is unlikely that a spotter aircraft shouldn’t have found something by now, unless they are looking in the wrong places. The missing transponder signal could suggest a hijacking scenario which could put it anywhere.
If it has disappeared over land, then it can be very hard to find. I remember an American military aircraft which left Clarke air Field (Philippines) for Guam back in the last days of WW2 and disappeared without trace. It took nearly 40 years before they found it by accident in a remote mountainous area on Luzon. Some areas in South East Asia with a mixture of ragged mountains and tropical rainforest can hide nearly anything.
One thing I don’t understand is. In this age where we today have a global satellite based mobile telephone net (not the one our standard cellular phones operate on). Why isn’t the data stream which goes to the “black boxes” not hardwired out to one of these mobile phones, and then via the satellite back to somebody like the aircraft operator. With hardwired I mean wired in a manner where there is no accessible switchgear to the crew or hijackers. This data stream should of course be feed in to a computer where the flight plan is also stored. Deviation between the 2 should set of an alarm so appropriate action could be taken . All the above is tested and tried technology, just used in a new manner. The cost of installing and operating is loose change in the industry.
The time from where a flight controller notes he is missing a blip on his screen and until the emergency services arrive at the crash site has cost countless would be survivors their life.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

Also in another news, they found some dingy that looked like it was from the plane, the fisherman tied it firmly to their boat or something, then rescue team came to take the dingy and sink it accidentally and it's lost! WTF? What's going on!! This whole shit is sooo freaking crazy!

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ORIGINAL: AlexisANew
Have you got a link for that please?

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Call me a tin foil hat type but I think there was someone on that plane that the powers-that-be wanted gone. Plain and simple.

There was a scroll going across on the morning news, today that there's evidence that the engines were running for four hours after they lost radar contact. This would seem to suggest that the plane was flying below radar.

This would also point to a skyjacking since the pilot or other cockpit crew (ostensibly) wouldn't fly below radar on their own.

I have not been able to find a link on this. I will look around.

ETA: Found it!

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Call me a tin foil hat type but I think there was someone on that plane that the powers-that-be wanted gone. Plain and simple.

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ORIGINAL: AlexisANew
For those that believe we should of found a debris field by now are not understanding the vastness of these seas. It really is looking for a needle in a haystack. Open-sea search-and-rescue operations are seriously difficult.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: rockspider

Four days and they have not found any wreckage tells me it is unlikely the disaster has happened over the sea. A modern aircraft has hundreds if not thousands of things on board with a specific gravity below one. That means it floats. One thing is the lifejackets, which also floats if not inflated. They are also made in the most glaring visible colors to make them easy to spot. It is unlikely that a spotter aircraft shouldn’t have found something by now, unless they are looking in the wrong places. The missing transponder signal could suggest a hijacking scenario which could put it anywhere.
If it has disappeared over land, then it can be very hard to find. I remember an American military aircraft which left Clarke air Field (Philippines) for Guam back in the last days of WW2 and disappeared without trace. It took nearly 40 years before they found it by accident in a remote mountainous area on Luzon. Some areas in South East Asia with a mixture of ragged mountains and tropical rainforest can hide nearly anything.
One thing I don’t understand is. In this age where we today have a global satellite based mobile telephone net (not the one our standard cellular phones operate on). Why isn’t the data stream which goes to the “black boxes” not hardwired out to one of these mobile phones, and then via the satellite back to somebody like the aircraft operator. With hardwired I mean wired in a manner where there is no accessible switchgear to the crew or hijackers. This data stream should of course be feed in to a computer where the flight plan is also stored. Deviation between the 2 should set of an alarm so appropriate action could be taken . All the above is tested and tried technology, just used in a new manner. The cost of installing and operating is loose change in the industry.
The time from where a flight controller notes he is missing a blip on his screen and until the emergency services arrive at the crash site has cost countless would be survivors their life.

The reason is expense. Putting a satellite system in every jetliner would cost the airlines many millions of dollars and many millions more to buy bandwidth on satellites and get the rest of the infrastructure. And as frustrating as this is this sort of occurrence happens very infrequently, the last time a jet was lost outside of clear ATC radar was an Air France flight over the Atlantic in 2009. They will find this jet's wreck in the next few days I'm sure.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75


Actually, technically, with satellite imaging, they should be able to spot debris alot faster, but there is no debris.

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Black box not working. No debris, no blackbox signals. The blackbox is suppose to be explosion proof.

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So many countries involve in this search now. Perfect weather! Safest possible flying conditions. Military radar picked up that the plane changed course, and their radar detected the plane for awhile until it also dropped out of their radar and when it did change course, it did not communicate any emergency. It silently dropped out of the local airports radar, and just changed course. It had enough fuel to keep flying for 4 hours. Latest news is it was sending out signals to US Satellites for another 4 hours after it dropped out of radar. It's all very fishy.

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I still feel like it's an inside deliberate job for some reason. I don't know what the intention is, as if it's the usual terrorists, they would brag about it, but they are being rather quiet. Don't think they crash the plane or they crash it on land after flying it for 4 more hours. Or they landed somewhere.