Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet

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#126
It has happened before.

"Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air civilian passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai that was shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. The attack took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, and on the flight's usual flight path. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 B2-203, was destroyed by SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired from the Vincennes."

All 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew, died.
 
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Abe Hoffman said:
It has happened before.

"Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air civilian passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai that was shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. The attack took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, and on the flight's usual flight path. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 B2-203, was destroyed by SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired from the Vincennes."

All 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew, died.
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Over the straits of Hormuz in a time of high tension. An unfortunate incident, but quite a bit different than shooting SAMs at a random aircraft over the South China Sea.
 
#128
#128
utvolpj said:
what makes you think that? For me it's that there was no distress call and no warning (at least none have been released). Maybe a gay Muslim Chinesemen got jumpy and dropped the plunger a bit early but I just don't buy blowing it up before screaming crazy threats to everyone on board.
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Its just a hunch, but I think we would have heard something from some entity if this was anything related to a terrorist hijacking. Either it was shot down for some reason and its been kept under wraps, it crashed and we just havent found it yet.....its a big ****ing ocean, or three, it was a hijacking attempt that went wrong.
 
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#129
All the stereotyping going on up I here and nobody has asked if it was asians driving the plane?

That should be the first question after an accident.
 
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#130
Flight plan never deviated, no debris found. Until they locate the site and find the black boxes, we won't know what happened.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Beat them to death!

‘Overpowered’: Passengers Beat 2 ‘Hijackers’ to Death on Chinese Flight | TheBlaze.com
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Good.

On another tangent, I got to thinking about the flight data recorder thing last night. And unless they are on land how hard it is to find the things. Anyway, with technology having come along as it has, I was wondering if some form of satellite uplink would be feasible that streams the data there as well as recording it on board. Like a real time data collection of airliners?

It would certainly help in situations like this.
 
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#136
Has to have crashed into a something like a mud bog or rice paddy and buried. If crashed into ocean or disintegrated, some parts would float. Reminds me of the crash in the everglades of ValuJet in 1996. You could barely see anything had happened at the crash scene.
 
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#137
AUSTIN, Texas — Twenty employees of an Austin-based technology company on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight were en route to a business meeting in China, a spokeswoman for the tech firm said Sunday.

The employees — 12 from Malaysia and eight from China —work at facilities in their respective countries that manufacture semiconductor chips, said Freescale Semiconductor spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga.

"We have several manufacturing sites in Kuala Lumpur and Tianjin, China. Those 20 employees were with those teams," she said.

Freescale Semiconductor has been developing microprocessors, sensors and other technology for the past 50 years. The technology it creates is commonly referred to as embedded processors, which according to the firm are "stand-alone semiconductors that perform dedicated computing functions in electronic systems."

The technology is used in a variety of things, including smartphones, appliances and automobiles.

U.S.-based firm's workers on plane headed to meeting | Times Free Press
 
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Ernest T. Vol said:
Has to have crashed into a something like a mud bog or rice paddy and buried. If crashed into ocean or disintegrated, some parts would float. Reminds me of the crash in the everglades of ValuJet in 1996. You could barely see anything had happened at the crash scene.
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Would the Vietnamese radar not have seen it over the mainland? Not sure about radar coverage over the Gulf of Thailand, but you would figure the land would have some sort of alert and the Vietnamese would have known the approximate position prior to the crash.
 
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#140
Men who used stolen passports not of Asian appearance, investigators say!

Thai travel agent says Iranian businessman Mr Ali booked tickets for the stolen passports!
 
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McDad said:
That's iranic.
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#realitycheck

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volmaverick said:
Ya. But but was a wiring problem! Lol
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Aren't you going to be thrilled if it turns out that terrorists murdered another 200+ people? Really nice to have victims you can stand on just so you can puff out your chest and scream "I told you so!"
 
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Grand Vol said:
Aren't you going to be thrilled if it turns out that terrorists murdered another 200+ people? Really nice to have victims you can stand on just so you can puff out your chest and scream "I told you so!"
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Nope I won't be happy! I look at things without PC blinders on!

If more people did the same lives would be saved!
 
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