Malaysia Airlines Jet Vanishes

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I seriously cannot watch the coverage.

It freaks me out like an Unsolved Mysteries episode.

Like, I can hear the creepy theme/opening music in my head.

Well, that, and I cannot understand how no one knows anything about a PLANE CARRYING ALMOST 300 PEOPLE.

It's an episode of LOST.

[thetalady]

I know the ocean is a big place, but seriously.... NOTHING? I am thinking that this plane was hijacked & flown right into the ocean. No other explanation that I can come up with for it to have changed direction with absolutley no communication from the flight crew.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

It's an episode of LOST.

Or it's the Langoliers…

I keep checking back to many of the major news stations throughout the day to see if there's a new development, but I find myself not believing anything I read anymore. There are so many conflicting reports, and I can't tell you how many times I've read some new information, and then a few hours later read an article that says, "Yea, what we said a few hours ago.. that's not true."

They're now claiming the plane may not have only changed course, but may have also flown a couple hundred miles in a different direction before "disappearing", hence the widening of the search area.

[carnation]

As the daughter of a plane crash victim, I know only too well what the families are going through. I pray that they have some answers soon.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by carnation

As the daughter of a plane crash victim, I know only too well what the families are going through. I pray that they have some answers soon.

I can't imagine. And it's awful that these people don't even know what happened to their loved ones. They're left to mourn without any answers.

[ASTalumna06]

http://news.yahoo.com/malaysian-mili...ml?.tsrc=attmp

Many experts have been working on the assumption there was a catastrophic event on the flight — such as an explosion, engine failure, terrorist attack, extreme turbulence, pilot error or even suicide. The director of the CIA said in Washington that he still would not rule out terrorism.

Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. Saturday, bound for Beijing. Authorities initially said its last contact with ground controllers was less than an hour into the flight at a height of 35,000 feet, when the plane was somewhere between the east coast of Malaysia and Vietnam.

But local newspaper Berita Harian quoted Malaysia's air force chief, Gen. Rodzali Daud, as saying that radar at a military base had tracked the jet as it changed its course, with the final signal at 2:40 a.m. showing the plane to be near Pulau Perak at the northern approach to the Strait of Malacca, a busy waterway that separates the western coast of Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra island. It was flying slightly lower, at around 29,528 feet, he said.

"After that, the signal from the plane was lost," he was quoted as saying.

A high-ranking military official involved in the investigation confirmed the report. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose sensitive information.

[ASTalumna06]

Grieving the Unknown:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mis...l-limbo-n51221

Because after a death, there are a prescribed set of rituals, according to your culture: throwing a handful of dirt on the coffin, or spreading the ashes in a favorite place of the deceased. All of these rituals have a purpose, helping the person process the grief. But with the missing — when a person is simply, mysteriously gone — the people left behind are helpless. Any ritual or burial or memorial has to be purely symbolic.

This was Sue Scott’s life for 45 years, since Dec. 30, 1969, when her brother’s plane went missing in Laos.

“Even though the flame of hope is so minute after so many years, you never quite give that up,” Scott said. “I think you’re always hoping for them to walk through the door. I don’t think that ever goes away. Some miracle will happen and they will walk through the door.”

[moe.ron]

It's interesting to watch different coverage here in Asia. Been watching the local, regional, BBC and CNN. The local and regional are obvious focusing on the search and rescue with their reporter on the planes and boats looking. BBC pretty much straight forward reporting on the latest news. CNN seems to be trying to hype up the story. Yesterday it was all about Iranian link terrorism, today seems to be about suicidal pilots. The terrorism angle was paraded by a lot of the reporters and politicians, angling it so Iran was responsible.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by carnation

As the daughter of a plane crash victim, I know only too well what the families are going through. I pray that they have some answers soon.

Heartbreaking.

Originally Posted by moe.ron

It's interesting to watch different coverage here in Asia. Been watching the local, regional, BBC and CNN. The local and regional are obvious focusing on the search and rescue with their reporter on the planes and boats looking. BBC pretty much straight forward reporting on the latest news. CNN seems to be trying to hype up the story. Yesterday it was all about Iranian link terrorism, today seems to be about suicidal pilots. The terrorism angle was paraded by a lot of the reporters and politicians, angling it so Iran was responsible.

I tend to change channels when CNN starts talking about this. For instance, I'm watching the CNN morning show and the guest "co-host" went to a commercial break and said they will discuss the plane. She had this really annoying cutesy bubbly voice and said "what are they using to find this missing plane, you ask?" That voice and cutesy joking tone are disrespectful. This isn't a game. This isn't an episode of Scandal.

Thankfully, Chris Cuomo came from commercial break and gave this story the tone that it deserves. Of course they are still talking about stolen passports because the American media is more inclined to focus on the international politics and terrorist conspiracy aspect.

[Munchkin03]

CNN is to real journalism what McDonald's is to real food.

Since we're in Whistler for vacay, we've been catching some of the CBC coverage. A lot more balanced and a lot less sensational than Crisis News Network.

[ASTalumna06]

Jet's Movements Indicate 'Deliberate Action,' Search Areas Refocused:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mis...focused-n53316

Authorities said for the first time Saturday that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 veered sharply off its flight plan because of “deliberate action by someone on the plane,” communicated with satellites for hours after it disappeared and might have ended up thousands of miles away.

Prime Minister Najib Razak stopped short of saying that the plane was hijacked. He said that the investigation would concentrate on both the passengers and the crew.

“I wish to be very clear,” he said. “We are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate form its original flight path.

”His disclosures, at a press briefing in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, represented the first big break in the investigation since the plane disappeared a week ago, with 239 people on board, on an overnight flight to Beijing.

[AOII Angel]

This is getting even MORE crazy. What in the world would they do with a jetliner in the Andaman Islands?

[moe.ron]

CNN got way too many anonymous source close to the investigation giving wrong answers. It went from mechanical error to Iranian bomb plot to pilot suicide to pilot hijacking he plane in less then a week.

[ASTalumna06]

Search Drastically Narrows in Hunt for Lost Plane:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...975958&ts=true

American and British aviation officials have refined satellite signals from the missing Malaysia Flight 370 and created two possible flight paths that dramatically narrow the scope of the search to an area off the coast of Australia.

The two possible paths have the plane heading toward the South Pole and ending, experts believe, off of Australia.

U.S. officials familiar with the investigation tell ABC News that the hourly satellite pings from the jet had yielded far more clues than expected, enabling the focus of the search to be cut in half - from an area roughly the size of Texas to that of Arizona.

Calculations by UK and US experts had now been handed over to the Australians to help with the search.

[ASTalumna06]

'Best Lead': Possible Parts of Missing Jet Spotted Off Australia

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mis...stralia-n57296

An Australian satellite spotted two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian authorities said Thursday in what they called "the best lead we have" in the mysterious case.

Abbott told Parliament on Thursday afternoon that he had spoken to Malaysia's prime minister about the objects.

The objects were spotted in satellite imagery about 1,500 miles off the coast of Perth, John Young, emergency response general manager for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. The objects are "indistinct," but the larger of the two appears to be about 78 feet across, he said.

Young and Abbott said more analysis was needed before it could be determined whether the objects were, indeed, from Flight 370, but Young called the discovery "the best lead we have right now."