* Still missing *Malaysian Airlines plane with 239 on board

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vonn

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Why can't the US just go look there anyway? Why do they have to look where MAS tell them?
Boeing is an American-based company so given it's their plane they have some weight in the investigation but pretty much nothing in the search process. They can't just go on another country's area and implement full control, it would be disrespectful at best.

If anyone should have lead the search from Day 1 it should have been China. It's us that lost the most people, and it's our satellite that found the alleged remains. MAS have pissed off a lot of people with what appears to be time wasting efforts and vague press conferences. People would be foolish to believe any government operates under full transparency but they should have at least strived for this in such a catastrophe, if not to the public but to the countries who have assisted search efforts.
 

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One wonders if it didnt nosedive but rather tried to land on the belly.

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Hypothesizing he's lost power tried to keep it flat and level till its hit the water, don't know what the glide ratio is on a 777 but it can't be good and in darkness looks like a valiant effort.
 

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Apparently the satellite images are a few days old. Curious as to why they've only come to light now and not before or is it possible that the image has only been found after sifting through 100s or probably 1000s of images
 

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Was only released recently. Must require processing and some form of red tape before it can be viewed. I really have no idea, but it's reasonable to say you can't get near live pictures from a satellite.
 

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Yeah that's right, it's actually a government conspiracy to hide the fact that aliens were involved.



Lighten up buddy, my post wasn't supposed to be taken seriously and hasn't derailed the thread.

Most people are just talking about the same old stuff now anyway as there is no new info.

My bad, thought you were serious. Sorry.
 

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Cracking and corrosion

Months before the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, US regulators had warned of a "cracking and corrosion" problem on Boeing 777s that could lead to a mid-air breakup and drastic drop in cabin pressure.

"We are issuing this AD (Airworthiness Directive) to detect and correct cracking and corrosion in the fuselage skin, which could lead to rapid decompression and loss of structural integrity of the airplane," the Federal Aviation Administration said.

It had circulated a draft of the warning in September, issuing a final directive on March 5, three days before MH370 disappeared.

In Malaysia, frustrations were boiling over with the country's active social media and some press outlets turning from sympathy for the families of relatives to anger over the fruitless search.

"The mood among Malaysians now is moving from patience... to embarrassment and anger over discrepancies about passengers, offloaded baggage and concealed information about its last known position," Malaysian Insider, a leading news portal, said in a commentary.

Twitter users took aim at the web of contradictory information that has fuelled conspiracy theories.

"If the Malaysian military did not see MH370 turn toward the Malacca Strait, then why the search? Who decided to look there and why?" one comment said.

The anger was compounded by a report aired on Australian television of a past cockpit security breach involving the co-pilot of the missing jet.

Malaysia Airlines said it was "shocked" over allegations that First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, along with a fellow pilot, violated airline rules in 2011 by allowing two young South African women into their cockpit during a flight.
Interesting to note the above though...

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/21951422/new-satellite-images-emerge-in-hunt-for-flight-mh370/
 
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