North Korea the weird looking neighbour with the strange haircut

But if it plunged down into the ocean intact would it have broke up when it hit the water, or would the whole plane have just gone straight to the bottom without breaking up ?

Mate, it would have smashed to pieces as soon as the plane hit the sea, tiny little pieces especially falling from 30,000 feet. There maybe a very small possibility of a failed Hudson River type landing minimising any breakup then the plane sinking relatively intact. Were talking long odds here though I can't think of any previous examples of this happening.

As for North Korea taking it out LOL they don't have the capability to hit a moving object flying at 30,0000 feet. I think China would be well aware if they did anything to do with it.

I get the impression the Malaysian authorities are quite incompetent and are looking in the wrong place.

Iranian "Mr Ali" purchased the two stolen passport passenger tickets for his "friends" one of them possibly African. CNN.

Odds for terrorism taking a tumble.

it was only 45 mins into the flight so 300 odd miles from KL. hard to see why they're making such a meal of locating it

sorry mafe posted before me

Mario Balotelli

I heard on Radio Four news @ 4pm this afternoon a finger being pointed at Iran.

No confirmation on later news ...

It seems our hopes rest on the plane being hijacked and flown under radar.

Not sure the finger was being pointed at Iran, just that an Iranian guy had bought tickets for the 2 passengers travelling with the stolen passports. But the place where he bought the tickets said he's bought loads over the past couple of years so it looks like he's just into people trafficking rather than terrorism.

10011001 - thought the spy satellites were observing all da planet. especially eastern places of interest. shirley they can rewind the Hard disc and find out were it went. Unless the spy satellites don't exist and they is bull**** all the way to de banque. resolution is one metre per pixel but should be enuff to spot a plane. Watched click online about google maps, how they overlap plane photos with orbital maps from space.

Airfrance 447 a few years back was kinda  similar and it was days before anything was found ,then they got a body or two and after a while the black boxes were located but took 2 years to find out and release the info of  what happened  ,that plane was in 9k foot of water .My info is that the seas in the area of this one are nothing like as deep and might actually not be deep enough to enable sub search .Plane turned back imo and it looks like the best equipped ships are now searching in the Malacca Strait which is no where near the area flight was last seen on radar  .Two seperate people have reported lights in the sky low and descending and it appears there has prob been a bit of misinformation put out for some reason ,international waters and airspace make it a  mish mash of Countries/authorities involved and they wont really be speaking to each other and coordinating properly imo .All it will take is a small amount of floatsome to be found  and the tidal movements will be back tracked and they will locate ,that is if the plane has indeed crash  landed at sea in a fairly intact condition and then sunk quickly which looks the case .The fact it is mostly Chinese nationals involved makes it a fairly prickly issue and no doubt little info is being released until they have the details .A lot of Chinese American  IBM workers on board .They will get to the bottom of it ,the black boxes put out a good signal for 30 days ,think there is water beacons combined in the black boxes (which float) and once immersed in water they auto trigger and send out a signal which is usually picked up fairly quickly ,it appears there was no bad weather (which was responsible for the airfrance 447 ) so all in all strange but not unique.All will hopefully be revealed and soon.Agree the superpowers military know whats happened here .What has not been mentioned is what if any cargo was on board ?
All will be revealed in due course imo .typical air accident report takes 18 months or so .

I agree with David

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there is a report now saying that that area is poor for communication, i'm surprised over that distance, so maybe they did try and report the problem by radio, still wouldn't answer them not using a transponder which would have been seen on the radar as an emergency, which means it was either very quick or the crew were not in control

One report this morning claims Smartphones of the missing are still ringing.
As many as 19 families of missing passengers have claimed to be connected - and the airline says they have rung crew's phones. 

If that report is right and the phones are ringing but not being answered that is even more strange, because surely they could track the signals (?).  And even the black boxes fitted on planes can send radio beacons for up to 30 days that can be picked up on radar.

With all this technology today it is unbelievable how a huge plane and over 200 passengers can just go missing like that.

those spies in space will know wots wot but prob need to keep it under their hat...............

The Malaysians did say that they have radar reports of it changing course, possibly trying to turn back towards Malaysia, which makes it sound like the disappearance wasn't quite as sudden as initial news reports would have us to believe.

it's been stolen

Exactly, i'm lucky if my iphone battery lasts more than 12 hours and it struggles to get reception in my kitchen. I can't imagine it'd be much good off the coast of Malaysia after 3-4 days.

Seems it's possible to hear rings without the call actually being received.  If it had gone down in the Strait of Malacca then you'd expect a ship to have come across something by now.  Bizarre

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