Malaysian Airlines flight lost MOD WARNING: NO JOKES!

Witchie

So sad to hear this.

http://news.sky.com/story/1222674/malaysia-airlines-plane-loses-contact

Hope its a glitch and they are safe but you have to fear the worst.

Amirani

It had 7 hours fuel and that time has passed, so one would have to fear the worst.

JONJO THE MISER

Just saw this now.

Witchie

Heartbreaking stuff. Really sad the thoughts of all those lives lost just moving from one country to another.

Ahhhhh its grand

I was on the exact same flight last August, scary stuff! Here's hoping there are survivors

spank_inferno

Flew with them last year on a similar 777.

Very sad to hear.

Terrific staff & service

drunkmonkey

NiallSparky wrote: »

It had 7 hours fuel and that time has passed, so one would have to fear the worst.

What ever happened to PMA, there are other reports it landed somewhere, hopefully it ditched in the sea near a nice little island and everybody's ok, they just don't have a radio.

JONJO THE MISER

Does not look good.
Will say a prayer for those poor souls.

BillyMitchel

Can't link because in on my phone.


It's gone down 150 miles from the coast of Vietnam. 230 or so on boards.


Edit. Here it is - http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing--says-airline-023820132.html

dobman88

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140308

maneno

http://www.nycaviation.com/2014/03/breaking-malaysian-airlines-777-200-missing/

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/07/3981495/malaysia-airlines-loses-contact.html

Sad

ceadaoin.

No wreckage has been found yet. It seems like they don't know where it went down. The Vietnamese reports have been denied.

Very sad indeed, my heart goes out to the families waiting for news

LizT

RIP to the victims. Scary stuff.

Tweedle Dumb

Just seen it on sky that one of the passengers was travelling on a stolen passport and on Facebook that there is at least a second passenger in a similar situation. Crazy stuff. Will add to the mystery.

ceadaoin.

Yes apparently the Italian and Austrian passengers listed as being on the plane were not on board. Both had their passports stolen in Thailand, one of them 2 years ago. Very strange. When a passport is reported as stolen is it not flagged as such? I thought when they scanned it on boarding it would display some sort of error

keeponhurling

Hard to even imagine the scene at Beijing airport where people wait to collect their family members back from holidays

RIP to all the victims

ThunbergsAreGo

Awful news

RIP to all if that is the case

Now there are suspicions of terrorism due to the discovery that two people had fake passports.

How is rugby getting more attention than this?

donvito99

Deleted User wrote: »

How is rugby getting more attention than this?

An ignorant comment.

Penny Tration

There's a thread on this in Aviation and Aircraft.

Scary reading.

Rip to the poor victims. Really hoping it's a tragic accident, and not something more sinister. It's looking worrying, though.

Peregrine

Tweedle Dumb wrote: »

Just seen it on sky that one of the passengers was travelling on a stolen passport and on Facebook that there is at least a second passenger in a similar situation. Crazy stuff. Will add to the mystery.

Two confirmed. Some reports on a third passenger too, apparently, but I've yet to see any confirmations about the third.

janja

So sad heart goes out to all family associated with this horrific tragedy

Stheno

Here's hoping those who died did not suffer terror in their final moments.

God love the poor families.

Too Tough To Die

Stheno wrote: »

Here's hoping those who died did not suffer terror in their final moments.

God love the poor families.

I'd imagine there was quite a lot of terror.

Femme_Fatale

The missing passports angle does make it look like there was foul play. :-/

A long oil slick on the Gulf Of Thailand, where I think contact with air traffic control was lost, and no further sign of any wreckage.

Guess deep-sea diving personnel are on the case at the moment.
Fuk...

keeponhurling

I'm wondering could there become terror link, especially after the Kunming massacre last week, and this flight containing mostly Chinese passengers

This gets barely a mention in the news highlights at the end of the 9:01 news on RTE, yet they give Brian O Driscoll a few minutes of footage. *sigh*

PropJoe10

This is shaping up to be a terrible tragedy, seems theres links to terrorism now, as two of the people onboard seem to have been travelling on stolen passports. RIP to all the victims of this, and God help their families.

hardCopy

Deleted User wrote: »

This gets barely a mention in the news highlights at the end of the 9:01 news on RTE, yet they give Brian O Driscoll a few minutes of footage. *sigh*

It's strange how Irish news broadcasts tend to prioritise Irish news.

Ace2007

hardCopy wrote: »

It's strange how Irish news broadcasts tend to prioritise Irish news.

A sports star playing his last home game is hardly more worthy news than a possible terrorism attack now is it, it that plane had been in America I bet it would have got more news time.

patrickc

bloody POSH Rugby ****e

donegal__road

Ace2007 wrote: »

A sports star playing his last home game is hardly more worthy news than a possible terrorism attack now is it, it that plane had been in America I bet it would have got more news time.

or any other caucasian country.

Peregrine

Ace2007 wrote: »

A sports star playing his last home game is hardly more worthy news than a possible terrorism attack now is it, it that plane had been in America I bet it would have got more news time.

Unfortunately we don't know anything about this.

I'd rather they only said it went missing, which is all we know really, than speculate like some other outlets.

As for the stolen passports. There were 2 passengers on board that plane that used stolen passports, that's all we know. Nothing to say they were terrorits YET, could have been smuggling.

Femme_Fatale

Not usually one for whingeing about what's reported and how it's reported, but I agree it's bizarre that a sports story, even a big one, is considered more newsworthy than this story.
I don't mind the BOD story being in the news and not just the sports news, but ahead of this story? Don't get it.

Ace2007

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Unfortunately we don't know anything about this.

I'd rather they only said it went missing, which is all we know really, than speculate like some other outlets.

As for the stolen passports. There were 2 passengers on board that plane that used stolen passports, that's all we know. Nothing to say they were terrorits YET, could have been smuggling.

could have been doing anything and hope they were smuggling, but still doesn't change the fact that if it happened in America or as another poster said any other caucasian country there would have been way more news time about it, sure it's been over 24 hours, and how many posts on AH 35?

Western society doesn't care what happens over there it doesn't concern us.
How much air time did the Kunming massacre get? - if that happen in London there would have been a prime time special about it.

wil

PropJoe10 wrote: »

This is shaping up to be a terrible tragedy, seems theres links to terrorism now, as two of the people onboard seem to have been travelling on stolen passports. RIP to all the victims of this, and God help their families.

The stolen passports may not mean much, European passports are valuable to people trying to avoid economic immigration control etc

Also then there was the near miss by a North Korean missile last Tuesday on a Chinese airliner from Tokyo.

Strange though that no debris has yet been spotted as you might expect from a mid air explosion.

RIP

Peregrine

Ace2007 wrote: »

could have been doing anything and hope they were smuggling, but still doesn't change the fact that if it happened in America or as another poster said any other caucasian country there would have been way more news time about it, sure it's been over 24 hours, and how many posts on AH 35?

If it happened in America, we would have a lot more information about it, that's for sure.

Maybe 35 in AH but there's 388 posts and 30,000 views in a thread in Aviation and Aircraft about this and most of them aren't from regular posters.

Femme_Fatale

Ace2007 wrote: »

could have been doing anything and hope they were smuggling, but still doesn't change the fact that if it happened in America or as another poster said any other caucasian country there would have been way more news time about it, sure it's been over 24 hours, and how many posts on AH 35?

Western society doesn't care what happens over there it doesn't concern us.
How much air time did the Kunming massacre get? - if that happen in London there would have been a prime time special about it.

This was the main story in the radio news this morning. It's unfair to say western society doesn't care; I wouldn't expect media outlets in Asia to report on Northern Ireland - or even Ukraine. The Kunming massacre no doubt got plenty of coverage in Asia.
It's not abnormal to concentrate reporting on what's on your doorstep (culturally or geographically).
But I agree with you that it's strange for a rugby story to be reported ahead of this story.

Ace2007

wil wrote: »

Also then there was the near miss by a North Korean missile last Tuesday on a Chinese airliner from Tokyo.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Aidric

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

This was the main story in the radio news this morning. It's unfair to say western society doesn't care; I wouldn't expect media outlets in Asia to report on Northern Ireland - or even Ukraine. The Kunming massacre no doubt got plenty of coverage in Asia.
It's not abnormal to concentrate reporting on what's on your doorstep (culturally or geographically).
But I agree with you that it's strange for a rugby story to be reported ahead of this story.

It is but as the case exists there is actually very little information available to trash out.

cml387

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

This was the main story in the radio news this morning. It's unfair to say western society doesn't care; I wouldn't expect media outlets in Asia to report on Northern Ireland - or even Ukraine. The Kunming massacre no doubt got plenty of coverage in Asia.
It's not abnormal to concentrate reporting on what's on your doorstep (culturally or geographically).
But I agree with you that it's strange for a rugby story to be reported ahead of this story.

The BOD story was just the moment. RTE was right to place it, for one bulletin, ahead of a plane crash in another continent.
Unfortunately the air crash story will still be around for a few days.

Ace2007

cml387 wrote: »

The BOD story was just the moment. RTE was right to place it, for one bulletin, ahead of a plane crash in another continent.
Unfortunately the air crash story will still be around for a few days.

Should it matter that it was in another continent? Say that plane had gone missing in the Atlantic would you have the same view?

ceadaoin.

cml387 wrote: »

The BOD story was just the moment. RTE was right to place it, for one bulletin, ahead of a plane crash in another continent.
Unfortunately the air crash story will still be around for a few days.

So a rugby player is of more interest than over 200 people losing their lives? Bizarre. They will be all over it if it turns out to be a terrorist attack. There are now 4 suspect passengers so that is looking like an increasing possibility

asteroth

ceadaoin. wrote: »

So a rugby player is of more interest than over 200 people losing their lives? Bizarre. They will be all over it if it turns out to be a terrorist attack. There are now 4 suspect passengers so that is looking like an increasing possibility

Dozens of Iraqi civilians are killed each day in car bomb attacks. We'll still see their plight taking a back seat to crap about some bimbo's wardrobe malfunction though.

Kirby

He has a point. Proximity is king. Brian O Driscoll is Irish. We are Irish. The people on the plane are not. And more than that it happened halfway across the world. If it was a Ryan air or Aer Lingus plane it would be all over the place. It's callous and heartless and all those nasty things but its human nature.

And before you insist on posting your outrage why is it more outrageous when 200 people die in a plane crash as opposed to 2,000 dying of starvation or AIDS or malaria at the same time? They didn't get their time on the news either. Nobody in here cared enough to post about them not getting news time yesterday. But this is more shocking and "sexier" than that. We are a fairly disgusting race when you think about it.

Sunglasses Ron

asteroth wrote: »

Dozens of Iraqi civilians are killed each day in car bomb attacks. We'll still see their plight taking a back seat to crap about some bimbo's wardrobe malfunction though.

Due to their frequency I doubt most Iraqis could remember where an attack happened 10 days ago and how many died. It is hardly a Western bias. I would safely say that attacks in Iraq that only kill one or two people probably don't even make the nightly news.

NIMAN

Local stories and people will always come first on the news, otherwise we would never hear another Irish story on the Irish news again, as there would always be something 'more important' elsewhere in the world.

To those saying that because it's halfway across the world and not in our proximity it's less news worthy, I bet if it happened to an Australian Qantas flight with zero Irish people on it (as was the case here) it would be much more major news.

mad muffin

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too soon?

Mr. CooL ICE

mad muffin wrote: »

too soon?

Yes.

Considering that it is still on going, then yes, it is too soon