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

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Commodore, Mar 7, 2014.

  1. Rox11

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    I believe in diego garcia, you should too.
     
  2. baller4life315

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    Today marks the one year anniversary...
     
  3. SPBR

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    http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/8/8170437/mh370-report-reveals-black-box-battery-expired-a-year-before-flight

     
  4. WhoMikeJames

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    Sounds like this will go down as one of the biggest mysteries of the 21st century.
     
  5. LCII

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    perhaps..they are on an Interstellar journey..if one wishes to remain hopeful
     
  6. Sajan

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    This is definitely an embarrassing maintenance gaffe on their part, but to be fair: the reports of this expired battery and its resulting effects are a bit exaggerated, IMO.

    The battery for the cockpit voice recorder (AKA the other "black box") was up-to-date and should have been functioning properly. If search crews were indeed floating right over it, they should have been able to pick up its signal.
     
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    http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/africa/mh370-debris-investigation/index.html

     
  10. daywalker02

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    Boy, I thought this was another incident
     
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    me too. would've believed it.
     
  12. WhoMikeJames

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    definitely from mh370. no other 777 crashes in that area and the currents from the current search area will take debris to that island. at least we know they are searching in the right area
     
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    Would they be able to backtrace the current stream to approximate the crash location?
     
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  15. baller4life315

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    That's the million dollar question...

    16 months is a LONG time. So even if these pieces of wreckage are confirmed to be from MH370 (which is at least some progress and closure for the families), we're still ages away from figuring out what actually happened.

    But at least we'll finally know for sure this plane didn't land in Kazakhstan, Diego Garcia or any of these other proposed theories.
     
  16. I am a Donut

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    PBS had a really good Nova episode on MH370 just a few days ago. I think you can stream it on the PBS website.
     
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    I wonder which one of those dead spots in the Pacific is the island of trash.
     
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    Check out that giant storm at 12.19 N 133.13 W
     
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    Just the other day....I found a flaperon on a sea shore. It means nothing. ;)
     

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