Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet

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Today's rumor/speculation.

Malaysian denial due at any moment.

US Officials Have 'Indication' Malaysia Airline Crashed into Indian Ocean - ABC News

U.S. officials believe that the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have crashed in the Indian Ocean and is moving the USS Kidd to the area to begin searching.

It will take another 24 hours to move the ship into position, a senior Pentagon official told ABC News.

"We have an indication the plane went down in the Indian Ocean," the senior official said.
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Septic said:
Translation: We see sh|t because our spy satellites don't have Kodak Discman cameras mounted to them. (suck it China)
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Slightly OT, but they were discussing the crappy resolution on the Chinese birds on the news last night. General consensus was they were not letting on about their true capabilities and probably have way better resolution than was provided.
 
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If it only sent two bursts of data, the last when it was climbing toward Beijing, how do they know it flew for five hours?
 
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hog88 said:
Dirty bomb possibly, or a flight into a nuclear plant.
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From what I recall, most nuclear plants have been designed to withstand an aircraft crashing into it. Remember it coming up in the wake of 9/11.
 
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Grand Vol said:
The ACARS data was finally released by the Malaysians.
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They are denying it. Our investigative team is the one stating this


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/13/chinese-government-website-says-it-has-images-suspected-plane-debris/
 
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Grand Vol said:
Slightly OT, but they were discussing the crappy resolution on the Chinese birds on the news last night. General consensus was they were not letting on about their true capabilities and probably have way better resolution than was provided.
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Perhaps, but if the resolution was good enough to dumb down, they'd probably have been able to see that it wasn't in fact part of a plane.

I'd think that China would have like to look like a hero, get a good pic, confirm, send out planes/boats and then release crap picture.

All speculation..
 
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Septic said:
Perhaps, but if the resolution was good enough to dumb down, they'd probably have been able to see that it wasn't in fact part of a plane.

I'd think that China would have like to look like a hero, get a good pic, confirm, send out planes/boats and then release crap picture.

All speculation..
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Actually, I was surprised when they said they were retasking 10 birds for that search.

But valid points. Perhaps they were using older satellites.
 
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Malaysia Airlines missing plane sent engine data before vanishing - The West Australian

"Malaysia Airlines has not revealed if it has learned anything from ACARS data, or if it has any," reported the New Scientist, referring to the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which automatically files technical reports during every flight so that engineers can spot problems.

The reports are sent at four stages throughout the flight - during take-off, the climb, at

a point during cruising and on landing - via VHF radio or satellite.
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New Scientist claimed that the maker of the missing jet's Trent 800 engines, Rolls Royce, received two data reports from the now missing flight at its global engine health monitoring centre in Derby, England, where it reportedly keeps real-time monitors on its engines in use.

"One was broadcast as MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the other during the 777's climb out towards Beijing," it said.
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Grand Vol said:
From what I understand (Septic can correct) ACARS is a continuous stream.
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I'm not sure, that kind of tech is not generally in private aircraft except for perhaps top shelf jets like Citations and Gulfstreams.

My guess is that it's intermittent at specified intervals (reporting normal) or when problems are detected by the system (immediate reports).
 
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Grand Vol said:
From what I recall, most nuclear plants have been designed to withstand an aircraft crashing into it. Remember it coming up in the wake of 9/11.
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I believe they are designed to withstand the impact of a 737 size plane, got to remember that was just about the biggest commercial jet out there when the last plant was commissioned or designed. I could be wrong.

In any case a fully fueled 777 packed with explosives would/could do a massive amount of damage to anything.
 
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hog88 said:
I believe they are designed to withstand the impact of a 737 size plane, got to remember that was just about the biggest commercial jet out there when the last plant was commissioned or designed. I could be wrong.

In any case a fully fueled 777 packed with explosives would/could do a massive amount of damage to anything.
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If memory serves, it was a 747, but that was without explosives.

Not necessarily concerned about it making it all the way to the US. It should be detected and identified long before it got anywhere close to a nuclear station.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why the confusion over how long the plane flew? - CSMonitor.com



An accident? #Facepalm
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This whole thing has been a giant clusterf**k. Every media outlet & internet sleuth in the world is reporting dog turds without properly vetting the source. It's a race to be first and have 'exclusives', better to be first that right...

The only thing worse than the Malaysian response to this tragedy is the journalistic integrity of the media covering it.
 
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