'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

The make up some new reporters on Sky
have proposed the current maptasticness
the black is the original destination, red where they believe Malaysian radar traces the planes movements, then the green are two main air corridors NW and SW, which may have been potential routes.
Might give people an idea of what is actually around there, as all the current mas were showing to the East rather than the West.


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Are the mobile phones still ringing out? This is a tragic and bizarre story i must say.

If they do find the plane, there will certainly be a film about it..

Whats Diego Garcia all about?
 
The Running Man said:
I tend to agree whether it was because of a terrorist attempt or not..

the chances of the plane being out there, intact, with 200 people sat around being fed and watered by terrorists while none of them got a help text off in the hours stated make me dubious. .
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Never been outside a city or town then?

Huge swathes of the world are not in mobile phone signal range. Deserts especially, even villages in many countries don't have signal.. many places I go outside Europe don't have phone signals so it would be fairly likely the place the plane landed (if it landed) wouldn't have phone signal.
 
Trusty said:
Are the mobile phones still ringing out? This is a tragic and bizarre story i must say.

If they do find the plane, there will certainly be a film about it..
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It doesn't matter, they already discounted that as possible depending on mobile, and network, and country or origin and location.
Some 'numbers' will ring and ring, no matter the actual status of the phone.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
It doesn't matter, they already discounted that as possible depending on mobile, and network, and country or origin and location.
Some 'numbers' will ring and ring, no matter the actual status of the phone.
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Ah ok, fair enough. I haven't gone back through the whole thread.
 
Amp34 said:
Never been outside a city or town then?

Huge swathes of the world are not in mobile phone signal range. Deserts especially, even villages in many countries don't have signal.. many places I go outside Europe don't have phone signals so it would be fairly likely the place the plane landed (if it landed) wouldn't have phone signal.
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Hugh swatches of desert don't count as an airfield capable of retaining a 777 safely. If it is crashed that's another matter, but if it landed for the reasons of ransom, it is very unlikely to be somewhere out of coverage.
Also with several hundred on the plane, it would require many hostage takers to shepherd such a group, and stop potential calls. It is very unlikely.
Crash in middle of nowhere (or sea) more likely.

Also remember this region is VERY heavily populated. Plans cover large amounts of ground while trying to land, they just don't pop down in a couple of miles. This would be passed to local source, main media, and international media in swift order.
 
Anyone Wang to correlate that map above with this map which shows the area the last contact with the satellite happened.
https://twitter.com/JournoDannyAsia/status/444764523480641536/photo/1

Personally if I were stealing a plane then I'd be looking at places like the taklamakan desert... You could easily land it without anyone noticing, the interdune areas could be cleared and made long enough to land a plane with ease and there would be no phone signal there... Obviously it would depend how organised a job this thing was but so far it seems like a well planned assault.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_Desert
 
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Amp34 said:
Never been outside a city or town then?

Huge swathes of the world are not in mobile phone signal range. Deserts especially, even villages in many countries don't have signal.. many places I go outside Europe don't have phone signals so it would be fairly likely the place the plane landed (if it landed) wouldn't have phone signal.
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Are there any deserts on the map I posted above?
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on earth, more people live within the confines of the map I posted, than live on the entire rest of the planet, it is very heavily populated.
 
Iraklis F.C. said:
Whats so special about this airport, its a military one but so are so many thousands more.
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It is a US military one, suggestion was the derps would head bang a plane into it for a cheer. Further suggestion was the US realised, and shot down the plane, and then mentioned maybe people should have a little look in the Indian Ocean.
 
Why does it have to be only on those red lines though? If the tracking system was disabled, the thing could literally be anywhere...
 
Lysander said:
The question was, what's so special about Diego Garcia when there are many, many other known US military bases? Do you actually know the answer? If so it would be helpful to tell us rather than trying to be droll.
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Do some reading instead of asking and you will find out.
 
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