Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:45 pm  

How come days after when relatives rang phones they would ring, and then as soon as the authorities were notified, they suddenly stopped?

And also some were logged into social networking sites, then as soon as the authorities were notified, they magically went offline?

The official explanations for the above seemed really weak.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:45 pm  

FlexWheeler wrote:

How come days after when relatives rang phones they would ring, and then as soon as the authorities were notified, they suddenly stopped?

And also some were logged into social networking sites, then as soon as the authorities were notified, they magically went offline?

The official explanations for the above seemed really weak.

Did that really happen? How long after was this? Was it possibly the same day it went missing and they stopped because it crashed or flew up out of signal range?

What would the other explanation be in this? What are the conspiracy theories saying?

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:54 pm  

What would be remarkable would be if not one of a jumbo-load of passengers with a working mobile and/or on text, Facebook, Twitter etc mentioned a word about anything amiss on the plane.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:14 am  

Why would a mobile phone network provider put a series of masts in the middle of the Indian Ocean on the off chance that a scheduled airline might stray off course and the passengers need a signal ?

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:08 pm  

still nothing found, surely must be getting very close now with all the satellite images that have come in recently, 200 objects seen floating... got to be a the plane!

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:22 pm  

They have had bad luck with weather, but they are making hard work of picking up a solitary piece of wreckage that will confirm it's from the plane.
I have visions of one of the ships and the possible wreckage being in the same satellite shot and them still not finding it.
They have its coordinates, they have wind /drift figures to make allowances ... I know it's easy from my armchair.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:43 pm  

Things can sometimes seem over-simplified when you just follow the news stations for, erm, the news.

Just this very evening at 5.30pm my phone flashed up a breaking news item from BBC News to say that an aircraft had crashed into the sea in the Canary Islands area which got my attention because my youngest is in Lanzerote at the moment, searched for the online BBC News but nothing, not on Sky News online either.

One minute later BBC News sent out another "breaking news" bulletin - it wasn't a crashed aircraft at all, it was a boat that someone had mistaken for an aircraft fuselage.

Panic over, red faces at the BBC, maybe too quick to try and beat the other news networks to a story that never really existed ?

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:03 pm  

Courtesy of friends living on Tenerife, whose friend took the pics, I believe on Gran Canaria.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:07 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Things can sometimes seem over-simplified when you just follow the news stations for, erm, the news.

Just this very evening at 5.30pm my phone flashed up a breaking news item from BBC News to say that an aircraft had crashed into the sea in the Canary Islands area which got my attention because my youngest is in Lanzerote at the moment, searched for the online BBC News but nothing, not on Sky News online either.

One minute later BBC News sent out another "breaking news" bulletin - it wasn't a crashed aircraft at all, it was a boat that someone had mistaken for an aircraft fuselage.

Panic over, red faces at the BBC, maybe too quick to try and beat the other news networks to a story that never really existed ?

They reported it live on Sky News. Cribbed directly from Reuters, reports from the Canary Islands that a passenger plane had crashed in to the sea. No idea of how many passengers were on board. 5 minutes later they come back and say that someone had mistaken a boat for a crashed plane. An easy mistake to make, obviously.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:09 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

They reported it live on Sky News. Cribbed directly from Reuters, reports from the Canary Islands that a passenger plane had crashed in to the sea. No idea of how many passengers were on board. 5 minutes later they come back and say that someone had mistaken a boat for a crashed plane. An easy mistake to make, obviously.

If the pic above is genuine, quite possibly