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Final words from jet came after systems shutdown
Yahoo Finance ^ | March 16, 2014 | AP: CHRIS BRUMMITT and JIM GOMEZ

Posted on 03/16/2014 12:27:57 PM PDT by Innovative

Investigators have said someone on board the plane first disabled one of its communications systems — the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS — about 40 minutes after takeoff.

Around 14 minutes later, the transponder that identifies the plane to commercial radar systems was also shut down. The fact that both systems went dark separately offered strong evidence that the plane's disappearance was deliberate.

On Sunday, Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a news conference that that the final, reassuring words from the cockpit — "All right, good night" — were spoken to air traffic controllers after the ACARS system was shut off. Whoever spoke did not mention any trouble on board.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boeing777; hijacking; iran; malaysia; mh370; planecrash; planehijack; terrorism; waronterror
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Me too, Sarah. It landed somewhere.

I wish I felt better about the passengers still being alive.

81 posted on 03/17/2014 1:21:40 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: MarMema

Just heard the pilot could have silenced the passengers by decompressing the plane.


82 posted on 03/17/2014 1:24:55 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
John Nance was on Komo here and said that it had seemed like they took the plane above 40,00 feet, which means in seconds they were all asphyxiated.

Made me so so sad.

83 posted on 03/17/2014 1:26:32 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Or “don’t anal probe me bro!”


84 posted on 03/17/2014 1:26:59 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: caww
In fact it is so hard for me now to even post about this.

I was so so hopeful initially that the hijack meant they would get to go/come home.

85 posted on 03/17/2014 1:28:10 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: MarMema

Well they might anyway...most everything is speculation at best because we don’t know until there is far more actual evidence then there is now.


86 posted on 03/17/2014 1:30:45 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
There is a facebook page for the Malaysian airline employees union and it is a very sad thing to see. Many of them crying - pics of the staff who were on the plane. Some of the children too.

I should never have gone there.

87 posted on 03/17/2014 2:11:32 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Innovative

There is a thread up now with what I had posted about..Israel thinking the jet is in Iran. And they’re beefing up their airspace precautions.


88 posted on 03/17/2014 3:01:01 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Innovative
the Malaysian authorities on Monday identified the plane’s first officer as the last person in the cockpit to speak to ground control.

Now it gets scarier as I think he was a muslim and not so rated by others as a good guy who would not harm people...

89 posted on 03/17/2014 4:58:33 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Izzy Dunne
If these planes can transmit to satellites, then why do we have FDR and CVR boxes at all?

Redundancy (in the engineering sense).

90 posted on 03/17/2014 5:02:42 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: MarMema
The reports I read said the most prominent pilot was an atheist.

Well there you have it. An atheist is the worst kind of infidel.

The copilot killed him and all the other filthy infidels.

91 posted on 03/17/2014 6:21:54 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I wonder. I bet there were a lot of muslims on that plane.


92 posted on 03/17/2014 6:34:17 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: MarMema

They don’t care about that...they celebrate death.

Nobody kills more moslems than other moslems.


93 posted on 03/17/2014 6:43:09 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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