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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Fri May 30, 2014, 02:59 AM May 2014

So where is the plane ?

Searchers: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 isn't in area thought to be its most likely resting place

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian agency says investigators have concluded that the missing Malaysian jet is not within an area thought to be its most likely resting place after an unmanned submersible found no sign of the plane.

The Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) said Thursday the U.S. Navy's Bluefin 21 had finished its final underwater mission in the southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday after scouring 330 square miles looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

The agency said an expanded search of 21,600 sq. miles, based on satellite analysis of the plane's most likely route, would probably begin in August after operators of much more powerful commercial side-scan sonar are contracted. Officials say the renewed search could take eight months to a year.

The plane carrying 239 people vanished March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/searchers-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-isnt-in-area-thought-to-be-its-most-likely-resting-place/

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A serious question: Where do you think the plane is?

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So where is the plane ? (Original Post) MindMover May 2014 OP
CNN HQ. Duh. LeftyMom May 2014 #1
Someone should ask Sarah Palin. Jamastiene May 2014 #2
At the bottom of the ocean. Gravitycollapse May 2014 #3
Personally I'd say the plane depressurized for whatever reason madokie May 2014 #4
That was a surreal tragedy, flying long after you're dead. n/t Uncle Joe May 2014 #6
A simple explanation PATRICK May 2014 #12
It seems that I remember madokie May 2014 #15
Sadly, the answer died with this guy: 1000words May 2014 #5
Damn you Warren DeMontague May 2014 #8
Great minds ... 1000words May 2014 #9
It takes a Villachez... Blue Owl May 2014 #17
I dunno, boss. Warren DeMontague May 2014 #7
Well, blkmusclmachine May 2014 #10
I suspect Malaysia knows but had been mis-guiding the search. dixiegrrrrl May 2014 #11
I will never forget the early response from a New Zealander working malaise May 2014 #13
it was taken by aliens. DesertFlower May 2014 #14
Aliens from Tralfamadore, maybe? longship May 2014 #16
Probably crashed in Shanksville, PA. . . B Calm May 2014 #18

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
2. Someone should ask Sarah Palin.
Fri May 30, 2014, 03:02 AM
May 2014

She might be able to see it from her house.

I have no idea where that plane is. I wish they would find the plane on an island with most of the passengers alive because they survived, but wishful thinking is just that, wishful.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
4. Personally I'd say the plane depressurized for whatever reason
Fri May 30, 2014, 03:48 AM
May 2014

everyone on board died shortly after that and the plane possibly flew on autopilot until it ran out of fuel.
Remember the Golfer whose plane did this very thing, Payne Stewart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne_Stewart

PATRICK

(12,228 posts)
12. A simple explanation
Fri May 30, 2014, 05:53 AM
May 2014

And does that explain the change in plane flight plan? Not being snide. That would just about cover what could have happened except the cause of decompression. Better than nearly all other scenarios which also have big incredulous hitches.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
15. It seems that I remember
Fri May 30, 2014, 07:30 AM
May 2014

that that particular plane had an issue earlier that would indicate that it could have lost pressure. The change they made could have been the pilots trying to return or something after realizing something was wrong only to succumb to hypoxia like the rest of the people on board. I really don't know but I do know there is no magic in this world and I seriously doubt there were any sinister deals involved so what else is there but what I suggested

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
8. Damn you
Fri May 30, 2014, 04:00 AM
May 2014

damn you damn damn damn damn damn

4 minutes earlier and I woulda had it too it it werent for those meddling kids

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
11. I suspect Malaysia knows but had been mis-guiding the search.
Fri May 30, 2014, 05:08 AM
May 2014

Since a lot of info from Malaysian authorities does not make sense, some folks are thinking there is a cover up, for some reason.
Maybe the authorities there are being very TEPCO like and covering their asses.,
maybe they know something but aren't telling.

malaise

(268,844 posts)
13. I will never forget the early response from a New Zealander working
Fri May 30, 2014, 05:56 AM
May 2014

on a rig. He emailed his company and said he saw an aircraft explode - he was in the South China sea.

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