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Missing Malaysian jet news (1 Viewer)

I was wondering earlier why they did not use the spy dolphins trained by the Marines to find the orange box. They should be pretty good in locating pings in a flash.

 
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CNN is funny/sad. The other day they had this on the top of their page: BREAKING: BLACK BOX WILL BE KEY IN SOLVING MH370 MYSTERY.

Breaking.

 
Sinn Fein said:
You know what they should get - a big ### magnet, attach it to a plane and fly over the search area - it will pull the plane from the bottom of the ocean. I'm sure of it.
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Yeah! Magnets, #####es!

 
Doug B said:
I wonder if this event will change the way black boxes and such function. Seems like making them so that they can spit out easily-traceable GPS coordinates from the bottom of the Marianas Trench -- and do it for 5 years or so -- would be highly desirable. This is a one-in-a-zillion event, though ... any changes would have to be cheap.
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I think they should also consider painting the boxes a different color than black to make them easier to find.

 
Heard something on the radio about the co-pilot attempting to make a call from his cell right after the plane took the sudden turn west. Not sure what the relevance is though.

 
A robotic submarine hunting for the missing Malaysian jet aborted its first mission after only six hours, surfacing with no new clues when it exceeded its maximum depth along the floor of the Indian Ocean, officials said Tuesday.
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The data collected by the sub was later analyzed and no sign of the missing plane was found, the U.S. Navy said. Crews were shifting the Bluefin's search area away from the deepest water and were hoping to send it back on another mission later Tuesday.

Search authorities had known the primary search area for Flight 370 was near the limit of the Bluefin's dive capabilities. Deeper-diving submersibles have been evaluated, but none is yet available to help.
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/missing-planes-black-box-batteries-may-have-died

Quiznos may get involved.

 
JuniorNB said:
Heard something on the radio about the co-pilot attempting to make a call from his cell right after the plane took the sudden turn west. Not sure what the relevance is though.
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This was first brought up about a week after the crash...then dismissed...then brought up again...then forgotten, then brought up again. The "news" on this is basically like a really full iPod on playlist repeat. It might take a week or two, but at some point, you will hear Funky Cold Medina again.

 
JuniorNB said:
Heard something on the radio about the co-pilot attempting to make a call from his cell right after the plane took the sudden turn west. Not sure what the relevance is though.
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I thought this was his phone registering with a tower briefly, not him actually making a call. No?

 
JuniorNB said:
El Floppo said:
JuniorNB said:
Heard something on the radio about the co-pilot attempting to make a call from his cell right after the plane took the sudden turn west. Not sure what the relevance is though.
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I thought this was his phone registering with a tower briefly, not him actually making a call. No?
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That could be. I don't know the details. And I mistakenly thought it was new news.
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Don't worry...it's not your mistake. It's impossible to tell what's new, what's old, and what's just being repeated to fill air time. The coverage of this whole thing is a big

:tfp:

 
Fennis said:
the plot thins....
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Lol. Seriously. On the one hand it's interesting to learn about the technology and all, but to hear the same thing over and over all day long on CNN is a bit much. Those guests don't get tired of being asked the same questions 50 times a day? I think an update in the am, noonish, and evening is suffice at this point to cover when folks are home and put it on the ticker too. Give us breaking news when there really is something we haven't heard already over and over.

 
All I can think of now is hearing Leonard Nimoy's voice say:

"A simple flight from Malaysia. Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people, including passengers of 12 nationalities and two people using stolen passports, vanished after departing Kuala Lumpur on March 8. The Boeing 777 left Kuala Lumpur International Airport about 12:40 a.m. local time, and was scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. The Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System, called ACARS, was cut off at 1:07 a.m. local time. The transponder, which transmits location and altitude, shut down at 1:21 a.m. during the flight. Subang Air Traffic Control officially reported that it lost contact with the flight at 2:40 a.m. Although the aircraft was flying virtually blind to air-traffic controllers after ACARS and the transponder shut down, on board equipment continued to send "pings" to satellites. The last confirmed signal from the plane to a satellite was at 8:11 a.m., more than seven hours after takeoff. The final words from the cockpit to air traffic controllers -- "All right, good night." -- apparently were spoken after the plane was diverted. Where is the plane? Did it crash into the ocean? Land on an old abandoned WWII airstrip on a desolate island? Where did it go...

Tonight's episode: In Search Of, Malaysian Flight 370"

 
All I can hear is Rod Serling's voice. Followed by the plane going through turbulence, picking up speed rapidly, and ending up landing among dinosaurs.

 
CurlyNight said:
Fennis said:
the plot thins....
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Lol. Seriously. On the one hand it's interesting to learn about the technology and all, but to hear the same thing over and over all day long on CNN is a bit much. Those guests don't get tired of being asked the same questions 50 times a day? I think an update in the am, noonish, and evening is suffice at this point to cover when folks are home and put it on the ticker too. Give us breaking news when there really is something we haven't heard already over and over.
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It's mind boggling how deep CNN gets into this story. Last night they were explaining everything about how Bluefin-21 works. jesus christ

 
Wolf asked one of the guests today if he thought it might take a few weeks. Guest said it may take a few months. Blitzer looked off to the production staff like "we're really still all in on this?".

 
Grace Under Pressure said:
Wolf asked one of the guests today if he thought it might take a few weeks. Guest said it may take a few months. Blitzer looked off to the production staff like "we're really still all in on this?".
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I feel like they've had a few opportunities to jump off this ship and have just missed them (Ukraine situation, Boston Bombing anniversary, Pennsylvania school stabbing). And now they're stuck with it until another big story pops up...I'm personally rooting for several weeks of no major news stories just to see how it plays out.

 
Grace Under Pressure said:
Wolf asked one of the guests today if he thought it might take a few weeks. Guest said it may take a few months. Blitzer looked off to the production staff like "we're really still all in on this?".
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Lol! Good thing the guest didn't say years or he would have fallen out of his chair! Seriously, you have to get so tired of asking the same thing every day and getting the same answer,- and analyzing what we've all become experts on by now from having heard it just once or twice.

 
If it wasn't for the Malaysian government screwing up so much, there would not be much to report. On second thought, there is not much to report anyways.

 
I feel like if CNN doesn't use this Korean ship sinking as a way to cut there loses on the plane coverage, they don't know how to TV.

 
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