[BuckeyeTexan]

Previous reports that reference a crash location are incorrect.

[Java4Jay]

Seems very odd they haven’t found impact debris yet

[txrefugee]

Hopefully, enough wreckage can be recovered to determine if the two stolen passports were used by Muslim terrorists who bombed this plane. We need to know that. Fortunately, the US won’t be in charge of the investigation.

[wita]

Last I heard the aircraft was cruising at 35,000ft when radar contact was lost. If true that is indicitive of something not good.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Admiral Ngo Van Phat told Reuters the plane may have crashed in Malaysian waters, 153 miles off the coast of Vietnam’s Tho Chu island, according to its speed and last known location.

The admiral denied earlier reports in Vietnamese state media quoting him as saying the plane had actually crashed.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA2707I20140308?irpc=932

The articles in Breaking News that confirm a crash are incorrect.

[andyk]

“At this time, we can confirm that three U.S. citizens were on board,” said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

Great, we have to get our news from Psaki.

[upchuck]

From the article:

“The aircraft had not been at altitude long and that strikes me as very, very odd,” aviation expert Captain J.F. Joseph, who has 44 years flying of experience, told TIME on Saturday. “It’s too early to say if there was a bomb or terrorist activity, but it lost contact just as it began to level off at 35,000 ft. It would give some indication that what occurred was catastrophic or somewhat instantaneous.”

Let me guess... the center fuel tank exploded?

[henkster]

“In the unlikely event of a water landing….” Well what exactly is a ‘water landing?’ Am I mistaken, or does this sound somewhat similar to crashing into the ocean? “Your seat cushion can be used as a floatation device.” Well, imagine that. My seat cushion! Just what I need — to float around the North Atlantic for several days clinging to a pillow full of beer farts!

-George Carlin

[BuckeyeTexan]

USS Pinckney (DDG 91), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, is en route to the southern coast of Vietnam to aid in the search efforts of the USS Pinckney (DDG 91), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, is en route to the southern coast of Vietnam to aid in the search efforts of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, March 8.

Pinckney was conducting training and maritime security operations in international waters of the South China Sea. The ship could be in vicinity of the missing jet within 24 hours and carries two MH-60R helicopters equipped for search and rescue.

A P-3C Orion aircraft will also depart shortly from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan bringing long-range search, radar and communications capabilities to the efforts.

[FAA]

Seriously though, the triple-7 is an extremely sound platform. Remember those Asiana boobs who banged one onto the runway at SFO last year and it stayed essentially intact? If I had to fly across an ocean it would be a 777 or a 747.

[Noob1999]

I hate to be crass and selfish:

But, since we don’t have a dog in this hunt, to whom do we send the $$$$ bill for the destroyer and air assets to try to locate the grave of 200 plus foreigners’?

BTW I find it very strange that a disabled or breaking up aircraft didn’t allow time for the pilot to get off a mayday:

thus I call terrorism

[yldstrk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_653

[gaijin]

why would muzzies blow up a plane going from Malaysia to China?

[virgil]

Don’t these aircraft have emergency radio beacons? No one has picked it up yet?

[arthurus]

The crew of a Vietnamese Navy ship said they saw it go into the sea south of Phú Quốc Island.

[VerySadAmerican]

To salt water sailors: Will this ship have to move very slow for fear of hitting debris?

[P.O.E.]

http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/content/dam/mas/master/en/pdf/Malaysia%20Airlines%20Flight%20MH%20370%20Passenger%20Manifest.pdf

I count three from the US