Quote from the airliners.net thread:
"It took them two or three days before the first parts of AF447 were discovered. It was a very frustrating period".
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The Air France crash had a large debris field, so I find it hard to believe with all the search craft being used there's nothing but an oil slick.
Seems like you guys make such a big deal out of Islam and "terrorist" yet you forget all the people who are killed in the name of Jesus in your own country.
I read an interesting article in an aviation mag years ago arguing that the calculation was all wrong, and deliberately obfuscating the real risk. I'm not good enough with math to have an opinion, but the premise _sounded_ plausible, at least. The idea is that simply comparing deaths per miles traveled ignores the fact that the air travelers were exposed to risk for much shorter periods of time. In other words, to travel from NY to LA you spend 6-7 hours in a plane, or 50 hours in a car. If, for example, people died at about the same rate per mile traveled in planes and cars you might say planes were a lot more dangerous because you are only in one for a tenth of the time it takes to go the same distance in a car. On the other hand, you have to choose one or the other means to cover the distance. You can't wish yourself there.
You Islam apologists are so incredibly retarded, I find it hard to fathom. How many hundreds of years ago were people killing in Jesus's name?
This week in Islam there have been 50 attacks, 434 dead, and 660 injured. Again that's for this week from March 1-7.
How many Christian terrorists have attacked people this week? Buddhists? Hindus? Mormons?
You can probably combine every other religion and they will not kill as many people in the year as Muslims will in any given week.
There could be lots of reasons that they went down without a mayday.
Although modern jumbo jets incorporate alot of redundancy into their design; however, it is still possible to loser power to all of the instruments under the right circumstances.
The stolen passports sound interesting and I suppose that terrorism is worth speculating at this point. But I wonder why that plane would be a target unless someone important was on that plane.
Although since 'terrorism' was mentioned I'm sure the conspiracy sites are churning with ideas by now
Has anyone heard from Frank Underwood lately? I wouldn't put such a thing past him...
What was that movie where the people in the future hijacked (NSA USE APPROVED) doomed aircraft?
Oh yea Millennium and it was TV series as well...
1. there is no evidence any oil slick is connected the plane yet. could be from a boat
2. exploding in mid-air is LESS likely to leave an oil slick of any type as the fuel has time to evaporate on the way down. Oil slicks usually originate when the tank is below water and leaks, allowing the gas to rise to the surface.
What was that movie where the people in the future hijacked (NSA USE APPROVED) doomed aircraft?
Oh yea Millennium and it was TV series as well...
CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director, was told by sources at Interpol, which keeps a database of lost or stolen travel documents, that the stolen Italian passport was in the agency's database. The reportedly stolen Austrian passport was not. Malaysian authorities apparently did not check Interpol's database, sources told Fuentes.
"Interpol's database has 39 million records of stolen travel documents at the present time," he said. "One billion passengers a year board international flights where there's no inquiry made of that database. So it leaves an opening."
The FBI is investigating the missing plane and China has stepped up its airport security.
2 additional people on the manifest are being investigated for using stolen passports bringing the total to 4.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/two-more-e...ect-identities-onboard-missing-005206266.html
All four tickets were purchased on the codeshare China Eastern which only sold 7 tickets for the flight. This could be drug smuggling and unrelated or it could be a plot. The FBI is investigating the missing plane and China has stepped up its airport security.
Hull-loss seems typical for the 777. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#Incidents_and_accidents