The missing Malaysian airliner

[Robert]

One of the weirdest headlines I've ever seen :

http://www.independent.co.uk/

[Sam Flynn]

One of the weirdest headlines I've ever seen :
http://www.independent.co.uk/

The weirdest headline I saw was about the Reverend Canaan Banana, former President of Zimbabwe, who was tried for homosexual "offences" in the late 1990s. I can't remember the headline's exact wording, but it was along the lines of "Banana implicated in gay orgy".

[Robert]

That's a good one.

I remember a Sun headline about 25 years ago : "Werewolf seized in Southend."

[Wickerman]

That piece of flotsam on the Chinese satellite image appears too large to be part of a Boeing 777.
Below is a rectangle 74ft x 43ft superimposed on the plane.



74ft x 43ft is double the size of the wing, and a piece that big is much larger than the body.

[Sunbury]

That piece of flotsam on the Chinese satellite image appears too large to be part of a Boeing 777.
Below is a rectangle 74ft x 43ft superimposed on the plane.



74ft x 43ft is double the size of the wing, and a piece that big is much larger than the body.

Very true, but if the wing or fuselage skin is ripped open, then the surface area can be greatly increased.

We now have Chinese and Japanese aircraft co-operating and operating from Western Australia. The US already there from day one along with the New Zealanders.

[GUT]

French Satellite has reportedly observed debris in the area.

An expert has said that ordinary debris would not be in this area, that the current would move it from the area.

[Robert]

The Malaysians have now officially written the plane off.

[Sunbury]

The Malaysians have now officially written the plane off.

Yes, they now accept that the aircraft crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, a couple thousand miles west of Perth, Australia. The confirmation seems to be from a UK Company analysing the flight data pings that were sent. An amazing piece of mathematical deducing.

That along with the debris being sighted in the ocean by satellite and aircraft would show the plane did crash there. Hopefully the families can get some closure now.

[Beowulf]

The Malaysians have now officially written the plane off.

You know, technically...Mal aysians means 'bad Asians'...

Worst headline?

Saw it on National Enquirer in the 60s I think. Seems Sunday Sport has found reason to steal it:

[Ginger]

Well, that solves that, then.

[Robert]

I suppose it crashed in the Sea of Tranquillity.

[Brenda]

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The most important things I have learned from this is that:
1. Families requesting privacy will still be hounded by the media.
2. There is a lot of trash in the Indian Ocean.
3. We have satellites in space where we can visualize this trash.
4. The American media can make breaking stories out of trash for weeks!

[Wickerman]

The most important things I have learned from this is that:
1. Families requesting privacy will still be hounded by the media.
2. There is a lot of trash in the Indian Ocean.

There's a lot of trash in all the oceans.

3. We have satellites in space where we can visualize this trash.

And yet, not one of them actually saw the plane on its 6 hour flight across the Indian Ocean.

4. The American media can make breaking stories out of trash for weeks!

They have been making their own trash, just to confuse the issue...

[Brenda]

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3. We have satellites in space where we can visualize this trash.


And yet, not one of them actually saw the plane on its 6 hour flight across the Indian Ocean.


AMEN.

[Abby Normal]

Why there is not GPS tracking in all planes is beyond me. That can't be turned off obviously.