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ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:26 AM Mar 2014

Will the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ever be resolved?


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Yes
4 (80%)
No
1 (20%)
Other (please explain)
0 (0%)
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flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
1. If it was intentional something has got to give
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:29 AM
Mar 2014

Someone will know something and chatter will emerge or someone will tell the authorities. If it was an accident we'll know by the absence of that someone.

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
7. But what is the cutoff date? When do we decide it was an accident?
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:38 AM
Mar 2014

How do we determine that it wasn't intentional, but turned into an accident? How do we determine whether it was intentional, but the emergence portion aborted?

flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
8. I think that will be decided by the global media
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:41 AM
Mar 2014

When interest is lost it will be still criminal.. but after a while it will convert into accident because no one has spilled any beans of any type. This will allow the Malaysian Government to avoid being blamed for faulty procedures or safety of the aircraft.

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
2. I think the plane is broken into many pieces deep, deep under the ocean...
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:29 AM
Mar 2014

Edit: that said, maybe some day down the road, a piece of flotsam will wash up on a shore somewhere, be identified as coming from the plane, and at least provide proof that it crashed.

Sid

RKP5637

(67,031 posts)
4. I would have liked a "maybe" choice. To me, if it goes on too long, probably not if
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:30 AM
Mar 2014

in the ocean someplace, because it might be written off as too expensive to continue a search.

ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
6. That wouldn't be much of a choice!
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:34 AM
Mar 2014

Hence, "Other (please explain)"

I agree with your point though that the search could become prohibitively expensive.

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)
5. I suspect they already know a great deal, they just can't tell us yet
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:31 AM
Mar 2014

They have no doubt been digging into the backgrounds of everyone on that plane and I suspect they have found quite a bit of info by now.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
10. I voted No because
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:23 AM
Mar 2014

while I think the plane will be found, there will be many unanswered questions as to what caused its disappearance.

ecstatic

(32,566 posts)
11. They need to return to the Vietnam coast lead
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:53 AM
Mar 2014

Too many clues lead back to the region. A seismic event was recorded in that area on March 8 right after the jet lost contact. Even though both clues were later rescinded, China released photos of debris and there were huge oil slicks. The oil was supposedly tested. By whom? The same people who have led us into day 11 of a missing passenger jet? Also, an oil rig employee witnessed a plane burning in the sky in that area as well.

The thing that's thrown everything off is the so called satellite pings that supposedly occurred hours later. Well, it's time to find alternate explanations for that and go back to the basics. Maybe it was pinging from under water or maybe a severely damaged and burned plane was flying during those pings. Hell, maybe there were no pings from the jet! They need to scour the waters off Vietnam's coast. If it's truly not there, then I'm fully open to a more X-Files type explanation. I was open to the hijacking scenario, but at this point, it doesn't make sense.

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