Maylasian Airlines Plane Missing

[Meenah]

WTF? Malaysia is being really sloppy. I've been to Malaysia once and flown on the airline (it was probably the nicest flight I'd ever been on).

[WolfpackWife]

This whole thing is just too weird. I have no idea what I think the outcome will be. Every time I'm like "wow, yeah, it does sound like it probably had some type of mechanical failure and crashed into the ocean" another odd piece of info arises and I find myself wondering where the hell a 777 managed to go and still perplex hundreds - if not thousands - of experts, government officials, and search and rescue teams...

[MrsK]

Today, they say it was hijacked. In which case, what happened to the passengers? I find it hard to believe that someone would hijack a plane with 200 passengers and not make any demand.

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[WolfpackWife]

Today, they say it was hijacked. In which case, what happened to the passengers? I find it hard to believe that someone would hijack a plane with 200 passengers and not make any demand.

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Exactly! I should have added "containing hundreds of passengers" to my comment above. I just don't get what happened to this huge plane full of people.

[L.Jane]

Today, they say it was hijacked. In which case, what happened to the passengers? I find it hard to believe that someone would hijack a plane with 200 passengers and not make any demand.

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It could be a repeat of United Airlines Flight #93 that crashed in Shanksville, PA on 9/11. It was hijacked, the passengers tried to stop the hijacking... the plane went down and is somewhere at the bottom of the Ocean.

Honestly.. they are just grasping at straws and the truth may never come out unless they find the plane. Even then, this may always be a mystery.

[MrsK]

But there is no debris. Many parts of planes are meant to float. There would be seat cushions all over the Indian Ocean.

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[WolfpackWife]

But there is no debris. Many parts of planes are meant to float. There would be seat cushions all over the Indian Ocean.

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That was my thinking, too. The first couple of days seemed logical that no debris could be found, but over a week now and nothing has floated to the surface yet? I remember with the Air France crash it took a few days for luggage and other items to float to the surface. It all just seems so odd.

[GrayMatterWife]

Today, they say it was hijacked. In which case, what happened to the passengers? I find it hard to believe that someone would hijack a plane with 200 passengers and not make any demand.

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I've heard several aviation experts hypothesize that the reason the plane was flown to the incredible height of 45,000 ft was for the purpose of killing all the passengers. If the people in the pilot's cabin have oxygen masks on, they could then decompress the main cabin, quickly killing everyone there. It's morbid and unfathomable to anyone who has any modicum of humanity, but from a purely analytical approach, if you were going to hijack a plane for the purpose of stealing it for use as a weapon later, the easiest way to manage the risk of the unpredictable human element would be to kill the passengers.

[MrsK]

Gosh, that's sickening

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[TulipsAndSunscreen]

Honestly though, I think I'd rather that than be on an airplane for 7 hours being flown to the middle of the Indian Ocean and drowning/ditching.

I can't get me mind off that poor mother with a 2 and 4 year old. What would you even say to keep them calm. I'm just sick over the thought!

[SuzySunshine]

Were those the other American's? I saw an article today that identified one of the Americans, I'm kind of wondering why they haven't identified them yet - its not like the media to steer clear of that.

I just can't imagine what those poor people were thinking if that is really what happened. I wonder if we'll ever really know.

[MrsK]

It's possible that they didn't even know that the plane was hijacked. Perhaps the cockpit was overtaken quietly and the hijacker posed as the legitimate pilot. It would have been 1AM, most of the passengers would have been asleep anyway, and in the middle of the ocean in the dark, there is no way they could know where they were going.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

The crew would have known though because the pilots regularly check in with them. I don't think the crew could have kept it a secret.

And the terrible thing is that we may never know what happened because the cockpit voice recorder only records 2 hours. The data recorder is 24 but the voice recorder is only 2. So even if we find the black boxes, we won't know

Also, if they truly flew 6 hours , it would literally be in the middle of nowhere so they might no have found the debris. Especially since it'll be so spread out at this point.

I don't know about the other Americans. The family with the young kids was Chinese I believe.

[corn poffi]

They published the manifest last week...lemme see if I can find the link.

[diggitydot]

So, the NSA can track terrorists off the grid in some rural backwood, but can't figure out where a fucking 777 went? Guys, you're drastically misusing all those damn satellites if you can't find a vehicle almost the size of a football field.