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Malaysia Airlines Loses Contact With Flight Carrying 239
NBC ^ | March 7, 2014 | M. Alex Johnson and Sossy Dombourian

Posted on 03/07/2014 4:50:23 PM PST by BobNative

Edited on 03/07/2014 4:57:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people has lost contact with air traffic control and was still missing two hours after it was supposed to have landed in Beijing, the airline said Saturday morning.

The airline told NBC News that a search-and-rescue mission was under way but said it had no further information.

The flight from Kuala Lumpur, carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members, had been scheduled to land at 6:30 a.m. in Beijing (5:30 p.m. ET Friday).


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2014airlinercrash; airlines; autopilot; aviation; beijing; boeing; carrying; china; contact; flight; iran; islam; kualalumpur; loses; malaysia; malaysiaairlines; maldives; mh370; planecrash; radar; religionofpieces; vietnam; waronterror
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To: BeadCounter

any word on the press conference that was supposed to start a half hour ago?


161 posted on 03/07/2014 7:36:15 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: dragnet2

Didn’t a bunch of those bankers leave notes in their apartments?


162 posted on 03/07/2014 7:36:55 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: latina4dubya

David Burke was the disgruntled employee’s name. There was no note.


163 posted on 03/07/2014 7:36:57 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: soycd

They like to show it off. Hiding it so it doesn’t make a splash is not Moslem style.


164 posted on 03/07/2014 7:37:12 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: dragnet2

according to this a PSA plane had a mid-air collision with a Cessna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182


165 posted on 03/07/2014 7:37:41 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The only thing I consider is a terrorist attack on China would get a no holds barred response. The Chinese don’t have political correctness to keep them in check. The Chinese officials will finance Muslim terrorists and let them do their thing on others but they sure don’t want them around.

My guess is Chinese aircraft parts chickens finally coming home to roost.


166 posted on 03/07/2014 7:37:45 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: reaganaut

The news conference is going on right now just the media isn’t showing it for some reason..they are still trying to find the plane(Its already daytime over there dont understand why they cant find it) was supposed to land in Beijing at 6:30AM, families are at the airport waiting for news, the look on their faces, just terrible, the not knowing


167 posted on 03/07/2014 7:38:37 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Gamecock
Me thinks Bermuda Gay Triangle!


168 posted on 03/07/2014 7:39:03 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: PLMerite

I sure wouldn’t want to be on that flight, at 35,000ft
and 500 mph. Maybe a window blow out might be survivable
but I wouldn’t want to be on the ride down to breathable
air. Zooooow!


169 posted on 03/07/2014 7:40:08 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: All

@Kudsia_Kahar: Pilot Capt Zahari, 53, has over 18,300 flight hours, 1st officer Farid Abdul Amin, 27 has over 2,700 flight hours. Focus is search & rescue.


170 posted on 03/07/2014 7:40:15 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: ConservativeStatement

I bet she was shocked...

Of course that’s what television does nowadays...Anytime an event occurs where the cause is yet to be established...That and they’ll show the same pics/video/interviews over and over until their entire audience is asleep or throwing things at the screen...


171 posted on 03/07/2014 7:41:23 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

I remember that crash clearly because a friend of mine, Ray Thompson, was the PSA executive shot first by the disgruntled employee. The pilots were then murdered.
Ray was a great guy.
Prayers up for the passengers and families of today’s incident. Seems likely terrorism is involved and that it is related to the recent knife attacks in China.


172 posted on 03/07/2014 7:41:56 PM PST by BIV (typical white person)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

154 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 12 Indonesians, 7 Australians, 4 Americans, 1 Russian among 227 passengers


173 posted on 03/07/2014 7:42:23 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Confirmed 4 Americans on board one of which is an infant according to NBC News who heard the press conference.


174 posted on 03/07/2014 7:43:06 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: tet68

Or sitting next to the window.
I don’t think the typical manpad can reach that
high.


175 posted on 03/07/2014 7:43:23 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: acoulterfan

Posted above the official nationality list

154 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 12 Indonesians, 7 Australians, 4 Americans, 1 Russian among 227 passengers

very sad, condolences to the families(Since this doesnt look good at all)


176 posted on 03/07/2014 7:44:03 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Revolting cat!

Post of the day...


177 posted on 03/07/2014 7:44:42 PM PST by colinhester
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To: dragnet2; acoulterfan

i looked it up... he wrote a note on an airsickness bag... they found the bag... it was written to his supervisor who was also on the plane...


178 posted on 03/07/2014 7:45:10 PM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: acoulterfan

THIS! RT “@cctvnews: #Breaking: Vietnamese rescue official says missing Malaysian plane’s signal detected.(Xinhua)” #MH370


179 posted on 03/07/2014 7:46:01 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: tet68

If it came apart at altitude, the debris field
would be huge and scattered, maybe tough to see
from the air.
Prayers for their familes.
t.


180 posted on 03/07/2014 7:46:15 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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