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Malaysian Airline Flight MH370

The US is moving it's destroyer to the Indian Ocean as an unnamed Pentagon official says they have an indication the plane went down there. He also said they believe it flew for 4 or 5 hours after the last radar contact.
 
HuskyDeac said:
The US is moving it's destroyer to the Indian Ocean as an unnamed Pentagon official says they have an indication the plane went down there. He also said they believe it flew for 4 or 5 hours after the last radar contact.
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WTF?!
 
So who gets sent in to find this thing? James Bond or Sterling Archer?
 
I mean, what the fuck was going on with that plane. There is no way a plane remains incommunicado for 4 to 5 hours after the last radio contact. All the radio equipment, the transponder, all the cell phones- nothing was working for 4 to 5 hours?
 
Sounds like the ABC News report that it went down in the Indian Ocean is bogus.
An earlier ABC News report quoted an unnamed “senior Pentagon official” as saying “We have an indication the plane went down in the Indian Ocean.”

The Pentagon spokesman told the Guardian that he didn’t know “where ABC is getting that from.”

There have been many fruitless leads and red-herring turns so far in the search for MH370, a search that continues on many fronts across a total area of around around 35,800 square miles (92,600 square kilometers), “or about the size of Portugal,” as AP puts it.

A Navy P-3C Orion aircraft had been “searching over both the Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Thailand,” according to an AP report. “The P-3C can search for extended periods and cover 1,000-1,500 square miles every hour. On-board sensors allow the crew to clearly detect small debris in the water.”
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HuskyDeac said:
The US is moving it's destroyer to the Indian Ocean as an unnamed Pentagon official says they have an indication the plane went down there. He also said they believe it flew for 4 or 5 hours after the last radar contact.
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Didn't follow the Payne Stewart ghost plane, but is there any way the plane could have made the left turn by itself?
 
The lack of credible info in the past few days is amazing. I was only a kid when TWA800 happened but this conspiracy theory is going to make that look like child's play.
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
Sounds like the ABC News report that it went down in the Indian Ocean is bogus.
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From The Guardian:

New search area in Indian Ocean

It seems that the White House is better briefed than the Pentagon press office. Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, has just confirmed that a new search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean, reports the Guardian’s Paul Lewis in Washington.

“It is my understanding the one possible piece of information, or pieces of information, has led to the possibility that a new search area may be opened up over the Indian Ocean,” Carney said, without detailing the nature of the new information.

He said discussions were ongoing with international partners to “deploy the appropriate assets” in any new search in the Indian Ocean. He added the new search would be based on “additional information” that was not yet “conclusive”.

His comments appear to confirm that earlier story by ABC’s Martha Raddatz.
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Knight said:
I think it is pretty telling as to the state of journalism in America today. Publish first, verify later.

Hell, at this point, I would happily watch a news channel that had news published hours after CNN/FOX/MSNBC/ETC broke the story if I knew the news would be accurate.
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PBS/NPR.
 
People don't pay for news and demand it instantaneously. Accuracy isn't a priority. Hence the current state of news. Get used to it.
 
bigdoublezero said:
People don't pay for news and demand it instantaneously. Accuracy isn't a priority. Hence the current state of news. Get used to it.
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Lower your expectations, people! It's your fault! You wanted the media to get with the times!
 
TownieDeac said:
Lower your expectations, people! It's your fault! You wanted the media to get with the times!
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If people demanded accuracy above immediacy, we wouldn't have what we have now. But people don't. That's fact. Sorry.
 
Knight said:
Re-cap the past 5 days: if we eliminate all of the conflicting reports, the only things we know for sure are the model of the plane and its features, the names of the passengers and crew, the originally scheduled flight path, the time and content of last received radio communication, and the altitude, date, and time at which the plane dropped off primary radar. We also know for sure that a man on an oil rig claimed to have seen something on fire in the sky.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/20a4fr/comprehensive_timeline_malaysia_airlines_flight/
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Is there any word on whether the pilots knew what "stall" means?
 
Knight said:
I think it is pretty telling as to the state of journalism in America today. Publish first, verify later.

Hell, at this point, I would happily watch a news channel that had news published hours after CNN/FOX/MSNBC/ETC broke the story if I knew the news would be accurate.
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Add the fact that there have been multiple examples of conflicting reports from the governments involved. Hard to blame the networks when they are told one thing one day, and then the same person does a 180 the next day.

Lots of CYA and holding some of their cards tights going on within the governments to be sure.
 
WSJ reporting US is seriously investigating flight landing?
 
JManslow said:
WSJ reporting US is seriously investigating flight landing?
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Even if the plane somehow landed safely, a ransom demand from hijackers would have leaked by now, even if governments wanted to keep it quiet. If terrorists wanted to reuse the plane 9/11 style, they're still hours from any major targets and there aren't many (any?) governments who are going to let an unidentified plane get anywhere near a high value target without shooting it down, with or without passengers. Passengers come from 16 different countries and no terrorist group wants both the US and China on their ass.
 
Agreed, I guess they just have to cover every base.
 
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