Malaysia Airlines MH370

This is tacky and tasteless but may help diffuse the ridiculous frustration of losing a plane in the NSA/Big Brother age.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiouXtOCAAEcPTI.jpg

^^^Caption: Malaysian Airlines Expands Investigation To Include General Scope Of Space, Time (c) The Onion

shouldn't the plane be inside the cones? because it looks like it's violated the space-time continuum.

It should also resemble a DeLorean more closely

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE TIME!:

Just because the engines were sending out pings, does that mean that the aircraft was in flight? Say the plane went down and the fuel lines and power were not damaged, the engines could still be running, yes?*

*source: LOST season 1 pilot episode.

And then I see this:
https://twitter.com/han_horan/status/444240397427306496

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/for/4370884298.html

It seems to be that the only (admittedly implausible) theory with no contradictions is that the plane landed somewhere and they're hiding it in a hangar, or somewhere else. Why is no one seriously discussing this possibility?

...could be an abandoned airport?

cos there's no way that happened

why?

bc when you hijack a plane it's generally bc you want everyone to know about it

xpost - what of what we know for sure would completely disprove that possibility?

daaavid

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/13/mh370_disappearance_could_the_missing_malaysia_airlines_plane_have_been.html

granted they could be in a place without reception or many of their batteries may have died but I would think someone would have been able to get in contact w/ someone if they had indeed landed elsewhere. Unless they were being held hostage, but being held hostage generally involves notifying the government that you have hostages in exchange for demands.

plus there's nothing to suggest it happened, and they're dealing with what is known, which is admittedly not much.

WSJ still sticking to its story that the plane was sending pings in real time for 5+ hours http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/03/14/malaysian-airlines-jet-left-data-trail-for-hours-after-disappearing/?mod=WSJBlog

xxxpost *generally* ...but we have no idea what would the people who did this (if it was the case) had in mind.

xpost - what of what we know for sure would completely disprove that possibility?

― daavid, Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the lack of any supporting proof that it happened! there's nothing, no evidence or anything, to support such a theory, currently. if and when there is, then it should be investigated.

evidence is they can't find the damn thing!

well nevermind, per dylann's article apparently they ARE looking into it! wow this case.

yeah but not being able to find it doesn't lend credence to any theory we think up, either!

I'm not saying there's evidence that it did happen. I'm saying there seems to be evidence against any other possible scenario.

I mean don't get me wrong, I want these folks to be alive as much as anyone. at this point, I don't even think I can surmise what is known and unknown, given all of the contradictory info.

BTW thanks for that link, dylann

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/malaysian-air-scale/

:/

I read the piece and the only thing that they're saying that would lead to contradicting evidence is that the engine transmission cannot be shut down by the pilot. But they could put the plane inside something that acts as a Faraday cage, right?

...but now looking at the map there seems to be a very good reason for them to not find the plane given the size of the area.

also, what if they purposely chose a flight path (and destination) with no cellphone reception?

so they flew to Wyoming?

Why is everyone looking down? "Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space"

Fallows: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/why-malaysia-airlines-370-remains-so-profoundly-mysterious-and-why-a-better-black-box-wouldnt-help/284407/

http://m.smh.com.au/world/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-may-have-been-deliberately-diverted-to-andaman-islands-20140314-34sp1.html

Smh.com

idk, it would be kinda seriously great if jarawas were behind all this

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00312/109220574_312697c.jpg

landing scenario

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

And a senior U.S. official on Thursday offered a conflicting account, telling CNN that "there is probably a significant likelihood" the plane is on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Going out on a limb there, huh, senior U.S. official?

"there is probably a significant likelihood"

This whole thing is (as others have observed) kind of like a twilight zone episode come to life.

I know I know that the LOST references are of bad taste and disrespectful - but damn...

the fact that for a second i considered that this could be a viral marketing stunt gone wrong makes me hate capitalist society and myself

Yeah, that was the bad-taste thought in my head as well. "I hope this isn't some Geico stunt."

http://i.imgur.com/Uv7ZINL.png

wheres david copperfield @

waht

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/21/david-copperfield-s-magical-and-utterly-bizarre-caribbean-island.html

mr veg and I had the most ridiculous argument last night - he said that the plane was going to show up in two pieces on an island in hawaii or in a hollowed out volcano like blofeld's lair, and I said that maybe it went through a wormhole and was going to show up at Pearl Harbor in WWII like Final Countdown, and he was all that's ridiculous a jet would get shot down within minutes of getting there blah blah blah why would that even be a thing that was happened and I was all yeah and your Lost/Bond idea is so plausible

I'm not proud :/

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http://reading.kingrat.biz/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/millennium.jpg

if we've moved on to the joeks phase of the thread surely this disappearance is langoliers related in some way

They've all been captured by a Japanese TV show and their escape attempts are being broadcast there.

http://chud.com/nextraimages/tzone4.jpg