[breaking] Malaysian Airlines loses contact with Beijing-bound flight, 239 on board

It was pretty much sarcasm. Because moooooslums would get the blame and people here and lots of places would immediately jump to that conclusion.
The media did, just like you pointed out.

So sorry (not really) Otis Thorpe or the poster that loved Robert Griffin 3 too much, or whoever you previously were.

 

You should check it out. It's a pilot's forum. A lot of interesting theories, and much more information.

One very interesting thing....

There were other reports from a group of late night beach goers who were in the vicinity of the last known reports of MH370, they heard a very loud boom coming from out in the sea.

That obviously wouldn't fit with the reports that the plane was detected on radar flying over Thailand, though.

Where is the ACARS data? It reports real time to the mechanics back home. They have all the info on how the engines were performing and how long they were reporting back. Roll Royce should be giving this info to authorities, if they have not done so already...

 

Interesting:

Did a Meteor Hit Flight 370?

 

Also, Andrew Wiggins, while Muslim is the generally accepted term, there is no official way to transliterate Arabic. Muslim is spelled miim-wow-siin-lam-miim....basically m-uu-s-l-m, for centuries the English referred to them as Mooslims, Mahamedins, and many other things...not necessarily derogatory, so "misspelling," or rather using an unusual spelling, doesn't necessarily equate to racism.

As for this Arab thing...you're joke right? You're surprised, possible offended that when there is a pilot of a missing jet liner with an arab sounding name, people suggest it could be terrorism? 1) That was a possibility before we knew the first officer's name. 2) All of the 9/11 hijackers were Arabs. 3) All of the other hijackings that I know of over the last 30 years have been by Arabs. Bush didn't make this information up. The media didn't make this information up. Did some people go too far and assume all arabs are terrorists?

Uh yah, literally 2 hours after 9/11 this a-hole next to me looks straight at me and says "it's you damn arabs." I am Syrian-Lebanese, and I am Christian, so I didn't really take offense to it.

The fact is Muslim terrorists have used commercial airlines as weapons before, you can only assume they'll try to do it again. Absent of any conclusive data, this is still a working theory and should be discussed.

 

This was discussed as a possibility in that pilot's forum thread. Something hit the cockpit, it became depressurized, and the pilots couldn't get to a low enough altitude before losing consciousnesses.

 

What about a bird? Too high?

 

When did the media blame Muslims? I haven't watched any TV coverage, but I haven't read ANYTHING about Muslims. Not even a mention. Not a mention of the first captains Muslim name, not of the 9/11 attacks, no speculation of which group could be behind this...none of that. The only speculation was about possible terrorists, it was you and Andrew Wiggins who assumed they were talking about Muslims.

 

35,000 ft? I'm no ornithologist, but seems a bit high for a bird.

 

even if a bird did hit, an airplane's engines are regularly tested for animal impact. No way a bird could've done this. A meteor could have but....damn what kind of odds are those? Hitting an object moving at over 400 km/h, when the other object is travelling at some insane speed.

 

I thought so too, but....

Perhaps the most impressive altitude record is that of a flock of Whooper Swans which was seen on radar arriving over Northern Ireland on migration and was visually identified by an airline pilot at 29,000 feet.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/How_Fast.html

 

What if a flock of birds crashed through the window, taking out the Pilots? If an engine strike they would have been able to trigger at least a distress call I would think.

 

During a spring training game, Randy Johnson hit a bird as he was pitching it towards the plate. Feathers flew everywhere.

 

Lmao....I spit out some water

 

Should also point out that apparently the transponders being off is not necessarily indicative of an intentional act meant to deceive air traffic control. I'm still trying to understand this, but there are codes beginning with 7XXX, I think 7000 is the distress code or transponder code or something. In some aircrafts, when you enter in a new code, it goes to standby until the last number is added, apparently to protect the pilot from accidentally entering the wrong code...so again, with depressurization, it's possible the pilots didn't have time to switch the transponder back on...

It's also possible that if the plane was physically damaged that the transponders could have been destroyed (the front of the plane). Or that the radio/comm systems weren't working properly.

 

Damn, that's incredible. Still, would take a flock of them to take down a plane. And this would have reported immediately back to Rolls Royce/Boeing, as they do in the event of any mechanical failure, as well as at takeoff, climbing, cruising, descending, and landing.

 

Nothing found thus far...

http://www.newscientist.com/article...ngine-data-before-vanishing.html#.UyBy9PldWAg

 

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Oh my bad. Was taken his word for it. Just read those snarky comments left behind from published articles. When it first happened, I knew people would be so quick to blame and let it play out. And it's really playing out.

 

The odds of this must be one in a zillion.