MALAYSIA LOSES CONTACT WITH PLANE CARRYING 239

[luong1209]

RIP to those who lost their lives.

Not to make light of the situation one bit, but did anyone else think of the TV show, LOST?

 

[dontbelikethat]

RIP. Tragic.

 

[xbiker47]

RIP to everyone on that plane

 

[AZwildcats]

Rip to the victims

 

[esaw612]

Bermuda triangle? 

 

[kickstart]

Am I missing something or am I reading it wrong? Cause to my knowledge July 2014 hasn't happened yet.

Just a typo. The Asiana crash happened in July 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

They were just in the news last year.

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

thats crazy man. Knowing you escaped death.

he better beware....

but yo thats sad. had my first plane ride last year. went smoother than expected,

but i legit thought i was gonna die when the plane made a turn. i forgot planes "tilt" when they turn.

 

[fresh out dabox]

scary stuff

 

[8pm at msg]

Man this is one of my fears. I wanna travel but I always think about things like this even though it doesn't happen often. I'm sure all those passengers felt like it was just another day until that moment hit. You never really think about the chance of it happening to you

R.I.P

 

[carver]

Sad rip to all of the passengers. 2 infants they never got a chance to even live life.

Plane crashes are always on the back of my mind when I fly.

But it's not something that will make me stop flying cause you can die anywhere.

 

[SoleByThePound]

cant wait for americans to make a huge deal about the americans when there are much more to worry about

Didn't expect to read a douche comment in here

What a tragedy.

 

[fuzzynguyen]

I couldn't imagine not knowing where a loved one is after something like this. Truly a tragedy. SMH

 

[rell826]

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[h1]Terrorism may be linked to missing Malaysia Airlines jet, authorities say [/h1][h2]Investigators probing possibility that terrorist act is responsible for the disappearance of flight MH370. The jetliner carrying 239 people vanished off the Vietnamese coast during flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying three Americans.[/h2]Comments (13)[h3]By Deborah Hastings / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS[/h3][h5]Published: Saturday, March 8, 2014, 9:19 AM[/h5][h5]Updated: Saturday, March 8, 2014, 12:45 PM[/h5]

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[h4]Lai Seng Sin/AP[/h4][h4]Distraught family members crowd Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia after jetliner with 239 people on board vanished from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam.[/h4]

Terrorism is being investigated as a possible cause in the mysterious disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner carrying 239 people, after it was discovered that two passengers had apparently been traveling on stolen passports, authorities said Saturday.

U.S. officials said Saturday they are investigating terrorist concerns, NBC reported. Malaysian authorities said they have not ruled out the possibility that the missing flight could be terrorist-related.

[h4]REUTERS/Trung Hieu/Thanh Nien Newspaper[/h4][h4]View of oil spills seen from Vietnamese air force plane on Saturday in the search area for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members.[/h4]

Mystery deepened about the flight as officials in Rome and Vienna said the names of two nationals on the Malaysia Airlines manifest matched passports that had been reported stolen in Thailand. 

Italy's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that an Italian man on the list was actually traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the plane.

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[h4]MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images[/h4][h4]Sarah Nor, 55, the mother of 34-year-old Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, is seen here at her home in Kuala Lumpur Saturday. She has received no word on the fate of those onboard.[/h4]

The Italian news agency ANSA says Maraldi called home after hearing reports he was a passenger.

Earlier, Vietnamese air force jets spotted two oil slicks in the South China Sea, the first possible sign of the plane that suddenly disappeared  and was presumed to have crashed.

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[h4]flightradar24.com/AP[/h4][h4]This screengrab from flightradar24.com shows the last reported position of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared over the South China Sea on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.[/h4]

There were no bad weather reports and no distress signal from the Boeing 777 that vanished from radar screens about one hour after take-off.

By nightfall in Southeast Asia no wreckage had been found some 17 hours later. Asian countries sent ships and jets to search the area between Malaysia and the southern tip of Vietnam.

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[h4]AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPINE MILITARY WESTERN COMMAND[/h4][h4]Members of the Philippine Military Western Command map out search-and-rescue operations for missing Malaysia Airlines flight. Several Asian countries scrambled air and water teams to comb the South China Sea off southern Vietnam on Saturday.[/h4]

Vietnam sent two navy boats, two jets and a helicopter to comb the region. Jet pilots reported seeing two oil slicks in the South China Sea, a possible sign of leaking fuel from the passenger vessel.

"We are doing everything in our power to locate the plane. We are doing everything we can to ensure every possible angle has been addressed," said Malaysia Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

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[h4]Laurent Errera/AP[/h4][h4]This 2011 photo shows the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from air traffic control screens Saturday. The image was taken at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France.[/h4]

Malaysia Airlines said 14 nationalities were represented in the 227 passengers — including three Americans. There were conflicting reports about whether an infant was among those three.

The U.S. State Department confirmed that number Saturday, but gave no ages for the passengers.

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[h4]JASON LEE/Reuters[/h4][h4]A woman, whose husband was a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, attempts to leave a Beijing hotel after complaining that the airline was withholding information.[/h4]

Most of the travelers, 153, were from Taiwan and China. Passengers also included 38 Malaysians, seven people from Indonesia, six from Australia, four from France and two Canadians.

At Beijing's airport, pandemonium reigned as angry and upset relatives accused the airline of keeping them in the dark, and state media accused Malaysia Airlines of responding poorly to the aircraft's disappearance.

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[h4]AP[/h4][h4]Surrounding countries sent military jets and ships Saturday to help in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight. A Filipino air force officer is seen here returning from a sweep of the South China Sea.[/h4]

"There's no one from the company here, we can't find a single person. They've just shut us in this room and told us to wait," said one middle-aged man at a hotel where the airline took grieving relatives.

Another family member complained, "They're treating us worse than dogs."

If the flight has indeed crashed, it would be the second deadly accident involving a Boeing 777 in less than a year. An Asiana Airlines jet slammed to the ground in San Francisco in July, killing three people and injuring more than 180.

With News Wire Services

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

So the airline put all the family members in a hotel but didn't send anyone out to meet with them? Imagine having that job where you have to interface with grieving family and explain how or why your plane crashed. Yikes

 

[mgrand15]

From what I hear, this was really strange because even when a plane crashes, it's built to send an emergency signal to the air control so they know exactly where it happened. That's along with all the other ways to track the plane. The fact that they completely lost track of it for so long is crazy.

 

[picasso swerve]

If it was knocked out of the air...

Dont want to jump to that conclusion. Was a wreckage site found? I forgot the intial story but as far as I know its presumed crashed because no way would it have been in the air 7 hours after supposed landing no?

 

[Fozz]

From what I hear, this was really strange because even when a plane crashes, it's built to send an emergency signal to the air control so they know exactly where it happened. That's along with all the other ways to track the plane. The fact that they completely lost track of it for so long is crazy.

Yeah, I would have assumed that the plane would have sent a signal out. Does anyone know how deep the water is in that area? I know there is a trench near by, but couldn't they use sonar to try to locate the wreckage?

 

[freshkrn]

apparently this dude was suppose to be on that flight, but he missed it.

http://twitter.com/KaidenDL


i don't eem...holy **** son

Yoo... soon.....

i got mad goosebumps

 

[rell826]

[h1]Malaysia Airlines flight may have 'disintegrated' in the air: source[/h1][h2]Terrorism is still a possibility in the flight that went missing an hour after takeoff Saturday, but a source with the investigation said if the plane exploded, debris should have been found. As many as four passengers boarded the flight with false documentation, including two passports that were stolen more than 18 months ago. Authorities have still not located any confirmed pieces of the plane and the disappearance remains a mystery.[/h2]Comments (19)[h3]By Joel Landau / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS[/h3][h5]Sunday, March 9, 2014, 10:37 AM[/h5]

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[h4]STAFF/REUTERS[/h4][h4]Malaysian residents ride a fishing boat past navy search and rescue ships before they depart to search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.[/h4]

A new theory has emerged in the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight, as a source in the search said the plane may have disintegrated in mid-flight.

The Boeing 777, which had 239 people onboard, has been missing since an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing. The plane has yet to be located and officials fear terrorism is a possibility.

Though authorities are continuing to examine the possibility of terrorism, but an official involved in the investigation told Reuters if the plane crashed or a bomb onboard detonated, a chunk of debris would most likely have been found in a concentrated area.

"The fact that we are unable to find any debris so far appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet," said the source.

[h4]Lai Seng Sin/AP[/h4][h4]Buddhist monks offer a special prayer for passengers aboard a missing plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Sunday.[/h4]

So far there is no evidence of foul play, the source said. A basic security check was mishandled regarding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that had at least two passengers who used stolen passports, an international police agency said Sunday.

Vietnamese media are reporting that search efforts off the coast of the country are finding objects in the water, but so far there is no confirmation they are part of Flight MH370. Debris found about 60 miles southwest of the Tho Chu Islands was determined to not be a piece of the plane by U.S. officials, reported the Thanh Nien newspaper.

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[h4]MALAYSIAN MARITIME ENFORCEMENT/AFP/Getty Images[/h4][h4]Malaysian Maritime Enforcement personnel using radar to scan for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777.[/h4]

But investigators are also trying to determine the possibility of how as many as four people were able to board the flight with fake documentation.

Interpol released a sharply worded criticism of the nations for not checking the international passport database that would have revealed the passports of two passengers were stolen more than 18 months ago in Thailand.

[h4]LinkedIn[/h4][h4]Philip Talmadge Wood of Texas, who worked in Malaysia as an executive at IBM.[/h4]

Interpol said it was investigating all other passports used to board Flight MH370 and working to determine the "true identities" of the passengers who used the stolen passports.

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Authorities believe possibly four people boarded the plane with false documentation, the Washington Post reported.

Early Sunday morning, Malaysia's air force chief said that military radar indicated the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back to Kuala Lumpur, but declined to give further details on how far the plane may have veered off course.

[h4]New York Daily News[/h4][h4]Route of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.[/h4]

Rodzali Daud, head of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, said "there is a possible indication that the aircraft made a turnback" and that authorities were "trying to make sense of that."

Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the pilot is supposed to inform the airline and traffic control authorities if he does return, but that officials had received no such distress call.

The Pentagon reviewed initial surveillance data from the location where the plane disappeared and did not find evidence of an explosion, reports The New York Times.

If all the passengers died in the crash it would be the largest number of casualties in a commercial flight since Nov. 12, 2001, when 260 people died aboard a flight from Kennedy Airport to the Dominican Republic, the Times reports.

[h4]HOANG HA/EPA[/h4][h4]An aerial view of what is believed to be an oil slick taken from a Vietnamese Air Force aircraft.[/h4]

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A massive internationals search is underway, but so far there is no sign of the plane. A pair of massive oil slicks was spotted in the South China Sea that could indicate leaking oil, but no more information is known at this point.

The plane was inspected just 10 days ago and found "in proper condition," said Ignatius Ong, CEO of Malaysia Airlines subsidiary Firefly.

A team from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board was dispatched to Asia to aid in the investigation.

[h4]DEDY SAHPUTRA/EPA[/h4][h4]The parents of Firman Chandra Siregar cry as they watch television at their house in Indonesia. Siregar is one of 239 people who is onboard the missing plane.[/h4]

Asked if terrorism was a possibility, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said it was too early to say. "We are looking at all possibilities," he added.

Confirmation that two travelers headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing were identity thieves suggested something sinister, although U.S. officials echoed Razak's caution until more details are known.

"This gets our antenna up, for sure," said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. "Once you hear that — stolen passports, a plane disappearing from the radar — you have to go to the full-court press."

[h4]CHINA DAILY/REUTERS[/h4][h4]A Chinese navy warship prepares to leave for the search and rescue operations of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.[/h4]

A federal law enforcement source said the U.S. was "still monitoring the situation."

King said intelligence agencies around the world would no doubt check for "communications among terrorists or any type of chatter" about the flight. 

King reiterated on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning that they still don’t know the cause of the plane’s disappearance but noted the event “is a red flag.”

“The fact that the plane disappeared, that there was no Mayday, the fact that happened in Malaysia, which has been a hub for Al Qaeda activity … you put all that together and you have two people that are traveling together with stolen passports … considering what’s happened in the past, we have to certainly consider terrorism,” he said.

[h4]SIREGAR FAMILY/HANDOUT/EPA[/h4][h4]Firman Chandra Siregar (center), one of the 239 passengers aboard FlightMH37), poses in this family picture.[/h4]

The three U.S. passport holders were identified in a manifest posted by Malaysia Airlines as Philip Wood, 51, and two children: Nicole Meng, 4, and Yan Zhang, 2.

Wood, an IBM employee and father of two boys, was based in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. "We're all sticking together," his father, Aubrey Wood, told The New York Times. "What can you do? What can you say?"

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Wood's ex-wife, Elaine, originally from the Bronx, described him in a Facebook post as "a wonderful man."

[h4]AP[/h4][h4]A helicopter lands onboard a Chinese ship expected to join the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines' passenger plane that vanished Saturday.[/h4]

Twenty employees of an Austin, Texas-based tech firm were also aboard the flight. Twelve of the Freescale Semiconductor employees are from Malaysia and eight from China, company officials said.

Officials in Italy and Austria confirmed Saturday that the names of two passengers on the flight manifest matched passports reported stolen in Thailand. The Italian passport was swiped 18 months ago, while the Austrian travel document disappeared two years ago, officials said.

The two passengers who used fake passports from residents of an Italian and Austrian citizen bought their tickets together from China Southern Airlines, reports CNN.  The passengers used Thai currency, the station reports.

Italian Luigi Maraldi, 37, is now living in Thailand, while the Austrian was located in his homeland. Maraldi called his parents in Italy to reassure them of his safety after his name appeared on the flight manifest.

The U.S. Navy dispatched a warship and a surveillance plane to join the multinational search team that failed to turn up any wreckage across 17 fruitless hours before nightfall in Southeast Asia.

Malaysia sent 15 planes and nine ships, while Vietnam sent two navy boats, two jets and a helicopter.

The twin jets spotted the slicks in the South China Sea; one was about 9 miles long, and the other about 6 miles long, officials said. Each was consistent with the residue of a crash by a jetliner with two fuel tanks, authorities confirmed.

"We are doing everything in our power to locate the plane," said Malaysia Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

About two-thirds of the likely crash victims were from Taiwan and China, with distraught family members at the Beijing airport steered to a nearby hotel to await the expected delivery of grim news. One woman, boarding a shuttle bus, wept as she spoke on a cellphone. "They want us to go to the hotel. It cannot be good," she said.

With News Wire Services

 

[mugen81]

How does a plane just "disintegrate"...
Really sad event...
Planning on going to Japan for my honeymoon, really has me shook for this flight now...
Rip

 

[yanky]

If there's oil in the water the plane is probably at the bottom of the ocean by now. This is crazy, aren't they able to pinpoint where the plane was and what the altitude of it was just before it went off radar?

RIP to those that lost their lives. What a tragic incident.

 

[water]

 

apparently this dude was suppose to be on that flight, but he missed it.

http://twitter.com/KaidenDL


i don't eem...holy **** son

Yoo... soon.....

i got mad goosebumps

 crazy 

goosebumps indeed 

 

[heliumclinton]

This is sad as hell, and the dude who missed the flight .. wow I can't even imagine

 

[RustyShackleford]

If I was homeboy I would be walking around scared as **** right now, worried some Final Destination type stuff might happen to me.

 

[mr jordan04]

probably one of my biggest fears.