Malaysia Jet missing-Officials conclude crash in Indian ocean/all lives presumed lost

[RedHot25]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysi...oard-1.2564616

Two Canadians are among 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board a Malaysia Airlines jet that has lost contact with air traffic controllers, an airline official said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are deeply saddened this morning with the news on MH370," said Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, reading from a statement several hours after the plane disappeared from radar screens. "Malaysia Airlines confirms that flight MH370 had lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2:40 a.m. today."


The flight was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The B777-200 aircraft left Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. local time and was expected to land at 6:30 a.m. in the Chinese capital the same day.

[T@T]

Extremely strange when an airliner has problems 2 hours into a 6 hour flight.

[darklord700]

There's unconfirmed rumor that the plane landed somewhere in China.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/nati...-30228717.html

But it is unusual that the plane would lost all contact at cruising altitude.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by darklord700

There's unconfirmed rumor that the plan landed somewhere in China.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/nati...-30228717.html

That's a terrible terrible thing to be released if it turns out that it crashed. Lets hope for the best.

[pylon]

By reading that link, I think there is a translation issue, and they are using the term landing where they should be using crashed.

[krynski]

Originally Posted by pylon

By reading that link, I think there is a translation issue, and they are using the term landing where they should be using crashed.

I completely agree with you.

[nik-]

CTV just reported that a faint signal from the flight transponder was discovered in the waters off of Vietnam. I'm paraphrasing what Lisa LaFlamme said on the telecast.

[nik-]

http://borneoinsider.com/2014/03/08/...gnal-detected/

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I was just in Malaysia for Chinese new year visiting my family. We even flew almost an identical route to Narita using Malaysian airlines 777. Can't help but to wonder if that was the same plane.

[Mango]

The photo of the arrivals board with the flight listed as delayed makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. It's hard to even look at the rest of the gallery on CNN because you see photos of the family members looking for information on the flight and realizing what has happened.

[JonDuke]

Malaysian plane crashed off Vietnam coast - state media

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/malaysian-p...--finance.html

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew crashed into the sea 153 miles off the coast of Vietnam's Tho Chu island on Saturday, according to a Vietnamese navy officer quoted by state media.
"At the moment there are no Vietnamese navy boats in that area so we have to ask boats from Phu Quoc island to be prepared for rescue," Admiral Ngo Van Phat told the website of Tuoi Tre news.

[CarlW]

I sincerely hope there are survivors, this is terrible. I saw the stories where people arrive at Beijing airport to pick up their friends and family and escorted away by security in tears.

Are the chances of survival better for a plane's passengers and crew since they crashed into water?

[JonDuke]

Originally Posted by CarlW

Are the chances of survival better for a plane's passengers and crew since they crashed into water?

Ditching a plane is never good, but there's too many variables to answer that question. I would say land is always the better option.

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by JonDuke

Ditching a plane is never good, but there's too many variables to answer that question. I would say land is always the better option.

I would think that if by some way they survived the crash and were able to use the seat as a floatation device they may actually have a slight chance.

I doubt it though, I don't know how cold the waters are, or I'm sure sharks and other predator types might have gotten the poor souls

[agulati]

This is just horrible horrible news.

Got to feel for the families and friends. I hope there are some survivors.

[burn_this_city]

Considering there was no mayday I'll be surprised if there are any survivors, especially with the slow locating of the wreckage.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by CarlW

I sincerely hope there are survivors, this is terrible. I saw the stories where people arrive at Beijing airport to pick up their friends and family and escorted away by security in tears.

Are the chances of survival better for a plane's passengers and crew since they crashed into water?

Have you ever been on an inner tube behind a boat and wiped out at like 25mph? Imagine that as a giant plane at like 200mph +. I don't think it makes a difference.

[schooner]

Originally Posted by JonDuke

Ditching a plane is never good, but there's too many variables to answer that question. I would say land is always the better option.

Pretty much, I believe the Hudson ditching is actually one of a very few successful ditchings in history. And so soon after take off low speed and altitude was in that one's favour.

[Regorium]

Just crazy. Very reminiscent of AF447.

[Bigtime]

"CONFIRMED Vietnamese search planes have found 2 narrowly-spaced oil slicks in South China Sea. Waiting for verification if it is from #MH370"