Malaysian Airlines Flight Disappears

[Twisted Fairytale]

Today, a flight carrying 239 people to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur disappeared mid-flight. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the flight around 2:40pm.

The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200, was piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and First Officer Fariq Ab.Hamid. Shah has 18,365 total flight hours, and Hamid has 2,763 hours. Both were experienced.

Malaysia Airlines is currently working with various governments to organize Search and Rescue. Ships have already been sent out to comb the sea, even though most of the route is over land.

Source - CNN

 

[Nebulous]

Crazy, what if they never find it? Maybe they warped to another dimension or something.

 

[The Governor]

Crazy, what if they never find it?

In these situations, I always end up so curious as to what exactly happened. Did the plane have technical failure and crashed? Did the pilot(s?) go rogue? Hopefully answers are eventually found.

 

[Atrox]

I just hope they find the aircraft and that they're on board and safe and it's just a radio malfunction.

 

[The Governor]

I just hope they find the aircraft and that they're on board and safe and it's just a radio malfunction.

This goes far behind a radio malfunction, unfortunately. They aren't even on the radar, which they should be.<br /><br />-- March 8th, 2014, 7:34 am --<br /><br />Update (or lack thereof): http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-g ... 20132.html

Short version is that they can't find any evidence the plane crashed. Article also says that the family members of passengers were tossed in a room and weren't being told anything by the airline.

Either the airline knows what is happening and is afraid to tell the family, or they have absolutely no idea.

A plane full of passengers cannot disappear without a trace. My only theories are that 1) the plane was hijacked. 2) The plane suffered massive technical failure and lost all power.

However, there's a problem with both theories.

For #1, if it was a hijacking, why didn't the pilot report it? He certainly had time.

For #2, that would indicate it crashed, which no one has reported a plane falling, and there's been no evidence of it crashing.

There is a third option that involves the pilot or co-pilot. Both of them would know how to disable a plane's radar and communications.

This is just so weird, and I hope it's found out what happened.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

Update

There have been traces of oil found in the ocean south of the island of Tho Chu. The Vietnamese navy has also claimed that they saw an object go down into the ocean, but nothing can support the claim.

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For #1, if it was a hijacking, why didn't the pilot report it? He certainly had time.

In hijackings, many pilots are completely separated from the cockpit. The only way a pilot can actually report a hijacking is by turning his radio tuner to a special "emergency only" frequency. The people watching such frequency respond with "Aircraft XYZ, did you mean to turn to this frequency?" If the pilot responds with yes, he has reported his hijacking and the ATC will allow the pilot to do whatever he needs to in order to land. If he lands, there will be police and military there to give him a warm welcome.

Unfortunately, in many cases, the hijackers know this. So if a pilot attempts to turn to such frequency, they are stopped and removed from the cockpit...

 

[The Governor]

In hijackings, many pilots are completely separated from the cockpit. The only way a pilot can actually report a hijacking is by turning his radio tuner to a special "emergency only" frequency. The people watching such frequency respond with "Aircraft XYZ, did you mean to turn to this frequency?" If the pilot responds with yes, he has reported his hijacking and the ATC will allow the pilot to do whatever he needs to in order to land. If he lands, there will be police and military there to give him a warm welcome.

Unfortunately, in many cases, the hijackers know this. So if a pilot attempts to turn to such frequency, they are stopped and removed from the cockpit...

What I meant was, the pilots still could've radioed in the hijacking. They had time to before the cockpit was breached. It was all but a second to flip a switch and turn on the radio frequency to report the hijacking.

Unless the hijackers used a stewardess to get in and then remove the pilot immediately, there would have been time.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

I see what you're talking about now! 🙂

I agree, it doesn't sound like a hijacking... People are starting to believe that they hit the ocean and just sank... 🙁

 

[The Governor]

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national ... FB_CHBrand

That's just great...just great.

 

[Nebulous]

Hmm, sad to say, this plane is probably laying on the bottom of the ocean somewhere.

 

[Saruman]

any more info on this?

 

[The Governor]

any more info on this?

Check some of the links I've posted. I intend to keep updating this thread as information is revealed. As of right now, there isn't much information at all. As was posted, some traces of oil were found in the ocean which could indicate it went down, but it's not confirmed.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

They seem to believe it veered way off course and went back South before crashing. They are having volunteers come in and read maps and satellite images trying to pinpoint its direction and location...

Lot's of search going on about now... Many people are saying it's been too long and the chance of survivors is very, very slim.

 

[The Governor]

They seem to believe it veered way off course and went back South before crashing. They are having volunteers come in and read maps and satellite images trying to pinpoint its direction and location...

Lot's of search going on about now... Many people are saying it's been too long and the chance of survivors is very, very slim.

If it veered off course, the only explanation for that is power failure and the pilot attempted to turn around and fly back, but got messed up.

Sadly, I doubt there are any survivors at this point.

 

[The Governor]

Update: http://news.yahoo.com/malaysian-leader- ... 52321.html

Why am I not surprised it's possibly terrorism? This makes more sense, much more sense. A plane cannot just disappear unless someone deliberately wanted it to disappear.

 

[Golddisk]

What I meant was, the pilots still could've radioed in the hijacking. They had time to before the cockpit was breached. It was all but a second to flip a switch and turn on the radio frequency to report the hijacking.

Unless the hijackers used a stewardess to get in and then remove the pilot immediately, there would have been time.

I don't know their security procedures in Malaysia, but I remember hearing that before 9/11 airplane's cockpit doors used to be left unlocked. If they don't lock them there, there wouldn't really be any 'breaching' time needed, nor much warning for the pilots to react.

Some news agencies are also reporting it could be an act of piracy (one article about that here).

 

[The Governor]

I don't know their security procedures in Malaysia, but I remember hearing that before 9/11 airplane's cockpit doors used to be left unlocked. If they don't lock them there, there wouldn't really be any 'breaching' time needed, nor much warning for the pilots to react.

Some news agencies are also reporting it could be an act of piracy (one article about that here).

You'd think that it would be common sense to always lock the cabin door. In a few movies I watched (I know, movies), only the pilot or co-pilot could unlock the door from the inside.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

I hope they are able to find something.

 

[The Governor]

I hope they are able to find something.

The chances that these people are still alive is very slim, though. If the plane was hijacked, it wasn't used in any bombing (nothing has been reported, anywhere), which means the hijackers had to of done it in order to go somewhere they couldn't legally.

It just doesn't make sense the plane would be hijacked and then purposely crashed into the ocean. Part of me feels like the truth about what happened may never be revealed.

 

[Deleted member 17779]

If this is related to terrorism, then what did the terrorist do with it?

If the terrorist wanted to crash the plane into something or crash it somewhere then I feel they would have done it already.

If the terrorist are holding the people on board as hostages because they want something, I feel that we would have heard from the hostage takers by now.

The plane has been gone for a week at least.