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#1 Mar 10 2014 at 5:48 AM Rating: Good
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A big ol Boeing 777 full of peeps goes missing off the coast of Vietnam.

Three days later and still not much is known of it's fate.

It was discovered that a couple of the passengers boarded under stolen passports. Other than possible oil slicks, there's been no wreckage found.

What's up?



Edited, Mar 10th 2014 3:52pm by Elinda
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#2 Mar 10 2014 at 6:37 AM Rating: Good
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Probably in some remote part of the ocean, it might've gone off course and that'll make it damn hard to find.
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I'm not saying "ghost plane" but it's totally a ghost plane.
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#4 Mar 10 2014 at 7:20 AM Rating: Good
The oil slicks are apparently shipping fuel and not related to the missing plane.

They've also determined that at least one of the people traveling with a stolen passport is not affiliated with the group that went on the stabbing spree last week, but they're still trying to identify the other one.

Is there a Pacific equivalent to the Bermuda triangle?
#5 Mar 10 2014 at 7:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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One-way tickets issued to the holders of those stolen passports seems ominous.

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Was there a soccer team onboard?
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They've also determined that at least one of the people traveling with a stolen passport is not affiliated with the group that went on the stabbing spree last week, but they're still trying to identify the other one.

So we can rule out "the plane was stabbed to death"?
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One-way tickets issued to the holders of those stolen passports seems ominous.

If you're going to die in a horrific self-caused plane crash, why not spring for the round trip ticket to avoid suspicion. Are you worried that you might not go through with it and now you have your failed martyrdom AND a Chase Mastercard bill to deal with?
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#8 Mar 10 2014 at 8:23 AM Rating: Decent
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They probably landed at the COBRA airfield in the pacific.
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Jophiel wrote:
If you're going to die in a horrific self-caused plane crash, why not spring for the round trip ticket to avoid suspicion. Are you worried that you might not go through with it and now you have your failed martyrdom AND a Chase Mastercard bill to deal with?


I'm thinking terrorist cells have to deal with budgets just like the rest of us.



Edited, Mar 10th 2014 7:40am by Samira
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On the one hand, stolen passports and one way tickets seems like a bad sign, and if you wanted to get an explosive device onto an aircraft, thats the one you would pick. On the other hand, there is alot of triad activity in that particular area (drug smuggling, currency smuggling, etc.) so while almost certanly illegal it isn't necessarily terrorism related.

They're thinking catestrophic failure of the airframe at 35000 feet or higher though. Thats not generally a good sign, and there are very few things that could do that to a newer boeing 777 short of an internal cargo bay explosion, a missile, or a fuel tank fire. A missile would likely have shown up on radar traces, but there are that crapload of missing surface to air missiles from Lybia we never recovered floating around, so thats a possibility. Internal device big enough to bring down an aircraft onboard? maybe. It would still take a pretty sizable device placed near a major structural aerodynamic component to do enough damage to a 777 to the point where the pilots couldn't get a call off. Even an airframe breech that caused a massive pressure loss wouldn't affect the sealed cockpit immidiatly. Realistically though, even a "holy ****, one of the wings just fell off" scenario should have resulted in some panicked radio calls. The weather was relitivly clear, there was no lightning in the area at the time, and no terror group seems to have claimed an attack right away that we are being told about, so i'm inclined to think fuel tank explosion at this point
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#11 Mar 10 2014 at 9:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
I'm not saying "ghost plane" but it's totally a ghost plane.
Because, aliens.
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Ghost Plane sounds like a made for ScyFy movie.
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Langoliers spinoff I bet.

They'll reappear at an airport in a couple of days down a few passengers.
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Langoliers spinoff I bet.

They'll reappear at an airport in a couple of days down a few passengers.


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The oil slicks are apparently shipping fuel and not related to the missing plane.

They've also determined that at least one of the people traveling with a stolen passport is not affiliated with the group that went on the stabbing spree last week, but they're still trying to identify the other one.

Is there a Pacific equivalent to the Bermuda triangle?


Yes The Dragon's triangle, no clue where it covers and to lazy to google it at this time.
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Catwho wrote:
The oil slicks are apparently shipping fuel and not related to the missing plane.

They've also determined that at least one of the people traveling with a stolen passport is not affiliated with the group that went on the stabbing spree last week, but they're still trying to identify the other one.

Is there a Pacific equivalent to the Bermuda triangle?


Yes The Dragon's triangle, no clue where it covers and to lazy to google it at this time.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Sea


Maybe they flew over the Golden Triangle by mistake.
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Jophiel wrote:
If you're going to die in a horrific self-caused plane crash, why not spring for the round trip ticket to avoid suspicion. Are you worried that you might not go through with it and now you have your failed martyrdom AND a Chase Mastercard bill to deal with?


I'm thinking terrorist cells have to deal with budgets just like the rest of us.



Edited, Mar 10th 2014 7:40am by Samira


Yeah, but individual terrorist does not have to pay it off:P
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Samira wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
If you're going to die in a horrific self-caused plane crash, why not spring for the round trip ticket to avoid suspicion. Are you worried that you might not go through with it and now you have your failed martyrdom AND a Chase Mastercard bill to deal with?


I'm thinking terrorist cells have to deal with budgets just like the rest of us.



Edited, Mar 10th 2014 7:40am by Samira


Yeah, but individual terrorist does not have to pay it off:P


No, but given the kind of conviction that one willing to blow themselves up for a cause tends to have, they'd likely want to save money so that it may be used to further whatever stupid thing it is they're offing themselves for.
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I heard a story a few weeks ago about al Qaeda's operating budget and their highly detailed expense reports for furnishing and maintaining their cave hideouts.
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#21 Mar 11 2014 at 6:46 AM Rating: Good
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Still no signs of this jet. Is this unusual?

Maybe there never was a flight MH370......
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#22 Mar 11 2014 at 7:18 AM Rating: Good
They've traced one of the stolen passports down to an Iranian teenager who was going to seek asylum in Germany with his mother. Hence, the one way ticket was because he had a connecting flight to Amsterdam from Beijing. When her son did not arrive on the expected flight,she contacted Malaysian police.
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This story is really driving me nuts. I've been trying to find more information online and all I can see are people screaming about aliens. Most notably is a story about an Australian pilot who disappeared not too terribly far from where the Boeing 777 disappeared. Supposedly the pilot was talking about being followed by a very large hovering aircraft just before he went silent.

All this and I'm thinking-- how hard would it be for an aircraft to simply disable its communication hardware and change coarse-- either landing safely or crashing somewhere they would not expect it to be?
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This story is really driving me nuts. I've been trying to find more information online and all I can see are people screaming about aliens. Most notably is a story about an Australian pilot who disappeared not too terribly far from where the Boeing 777 disappeared. Supposedly the pilot was talking about being followed by a very large hovering aircraft just before he went silent.


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News on the radio was that Malaysia is saying they have radar evidence that the plane went way off course, as in all the way to the other coastline of the country. So searches in the ocean where it "should" have been may have been far from the actual crash site.

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In a strange twist, Malaysia's military believes it tracked the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control over the Gulf of Thailand.

A military source confirmed with Reuters that the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 on board changed course and made it to the other side of the Malay peninsula.

"It changed course after Kota Baru and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Straits," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.


Edited, Mar 11th 2014 2:28pm by Jophiel
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