Missing 777

[Fred W]

Or is it something else?

Just a little sand in the mangina.

Nothing to worry about

 

[Bounce]

It's a highly politicized topic everywhere it comes up. I didn't lock it because it was skating the edge without tipping over. Like I said.

Let's avoid it spinning off into politics, please.

I don't know how much clearer it could have been.

 

[dcarver]

Hey, Bounce, it's skating <fast> over thin ice!

Deja Vu 1999 again.

Or groundhog day.. or something..

Still, given all our technology, politics aside, and all the $$$ spent to locate, and nada.

Hell, we find Old-Cliff-Diving-Michael faster than this!

 

[TomInPA]

I had no idea it was political. I figured a couple months ago this plane would be the new Emelia Earhart mystery. Tragic loss of life, never ending questions and no answers.


Posted 13 March 2014 - 02:10 PM

Has anyone found Amilia Earhart? Very strange to have a 777 heavy just disappear. Apparently the Chinese sattelite image has been dismissed, as was the engine data from U.S. sources that showed the plane continued to travel west after the transponder shut down.

n.

 

[Bugnatr]

This thread skated during the admin hiatus. Let's avoid it spinning off into politics, please.

And if you noticed we didn't go into politics. Some days you admins are just too sensitive.

 

[Bounce]

If it wasn't as explicit as it should have been originally, then let me be so now.

I said (or at least meant for it to say) let's make sure it doesn't turn political (because it has everywhere else I've seen the discussion).

Skating/skirting does not mean the same thing as "balls deep into a political rant".

IOW: Thanks for NOT making it political but continue to be aware of how easy it is for this topic to head that way if not careful.

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Who is John Galt?

 

[ionbeam]

Who is John Galt?

Shrug, just a Rand-om name that won't move this thread forward in a good way.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Who is John Galt?

Shrug, just a Rand-om name that won't move this thread forward in a good way.

Willy's brother?

 

[Checkswrecks]

Going back to the topic of surveillance and lack of info, look again at the map of the Indian Ocean. Think in terms of what is there to spend resources on. Pretty much nothing. Even unlimited surveillance budgets get targeted to potential and perceived threats. Once you get a thousand + miles west of Perth, there's just nothing there for anybody to care about.

 

[08FJR4ME]

Need I say more,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar

The radar has been described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away.

 

[Geezer]

Need I say more,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar

The radar has been described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away.

I saw one of those in Pearl Harbor when I was there in 2007. I figured it was some sort of radar device but never knew the details before.

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Need I say more,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar

The radar has been described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away.

I thought I was a stud doing an 11 1/2 month cruise on the Enterprise back in the 80's.

"Between 2009 and 2010, the vessel spent 396 continuous days at sea."

 

[russperry]

It looks like a golf ball teed up for Paul Bunyan.....

 

[rushes]

It's that damn fifth dimension that got it. Or a black hole. Something we can't explain yet.

I gotta bunch a socks and a couple gloves there too.

 

[Bugnatr]

It's that damn fifth dimension that got it. Or a black hole. Something we can't explain yet.
I gotta bunch a socks and a couple gloves there too.

Must be the same place the dropped bolt under the fuel tank goes to.

 

[SoCalFJR1300]

The Age of Aquarius?

 

[Khunajawdge]

OK, can anyone here shine any real light on what happened yet? I'm still in the dark.

 

[ionbeam]

OK, can anyone here shine any real light on what happened yet? I'm still in the dark.

The hard fact is, the airplane is missing, there is no wreckage, no bodies, no evidence and no claim of responsibility. Everyone is apparently in the dark.

The pilot kept a scheduler to organize his activities -- there were no entries in the scheduler after flight 370. The pilot had a flight simulator in his house, there were several simulations that showed routes over the Indian Ocean.

The hot speculation is the pilot turned the plane, then the pilot *might have* reprogrammed the auto-pilot, there *may have* been an event that turned off the cabin pressure (a Payne Steward event ensues) preventing any cell phone use and preventing any cockpit communications. The plane *may have* flown until it ran out of fuel. There is no visual evidence, no electronic evidence, no photo evidence and no motive.

The last hard fact is, it's a tragedy regardless if it is an accident or murder.

 

[beemerdons]

It's that damn fifth dimension that got it. Or a black hole. Something we can't explain yet.

I gotta bunch a socks and a couple gloves there too.

Must be the same place the dropped bolt under the fuel tank goes to.

It is also the same place that every Canadians wallet drops into when you walk in to a tavern with them, you will find this 777 and Amelia Earhart faster than any Canuck who will buy a damn round of drinks! Good luck separating a Frostback from a loonie or a buck, eh! jes' sayin' and nuff said, eh! Hosers, eh!

https://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/beemerdons/July%202014/e2dbab6c4cc9bbf6893f81114ecf-473x315.jpeg