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There is plenty of coverage on American media. But for example right now there is live coverage of 2 buildings collapsed due to an explosion in NYC and now is more immediate as they need to look for survivors, etc.
And there really has been no knew news in the last few days. Just speculation.
Major news has pretty much backburnered this there is concrete evidence to start working on. Once we find a piece or a message or something then you will see the outlets call in the experts again to start speculating, hypothesizing, covering the search for the "black box", etc.
I was following the feeds very closely but have drifted away and occasionally pop into airliners.net to get some insight.
What i am surprised by is the very low level of coverage this event has received in the mainstream media.
What mainstream media have you been following? This story has been the lead on all three network evening news programs since it happened. Then you have things like 'Nightline" doing "special reports" including one careering off to make comparisons to AF 447.
United States news media lurches from one "event" story to the next. Something big happens and it will be beaten to death until something else bigger or at least equal comes along. This Malaysia airplane incident pushed the whole Russia/Crimea/Ukraine story to second string.
What mainstream media have you been following? This story has been the lead on all three network evening news programs since it happened. Then you have things like 'Nightline" doing "special reports" including one careering off to make comparisons to AF 447.
United States news media lurches from one "event" story to the next. Something big happens and it will be beaten to death until something else bigger or at least equal comes along. This Malaysia airplane incident pushed the whole Russia/Crimea/Ukraine story to second string.
Seriously! This event is all over mainstream news...
If anything, we should be concerned that there's not enough coverage about the Russia/Ukraine story right now because the news is focused on this crash.
What mainstream media have you been following? This story has been the lead on all three network evening news programs since it happened. Then you have things like 'Nightline" doing "special reports" including one careering off to make comparisons to AF 447.
United States news media lurches from one "event" story to the next. Something big happens and it will be beaten to death until something else bigger or at least equal comes along. This Malaysia airplane incident pushed the whole Russia/Crimea/Ukraine story to second string.
Check out Al Jazeera America...they HAVE been covering the plane crash, but they're also covering other stories including the Crimea situation.
At this point, maybe what they need to do is draw a line out from the last point of contact, as far out as the remaining fuel would last, then draw a circle from that and start searching 360 degrees, since no one will confirm anything. Officials are supposedly making statements, then saying they did NOT make statements, so that plane could be anywhere within the limitations of its fuel.
I just saw that they've now changed (or extended) the search to the west side of Malaysia all the way north to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, south of India and have asked India to join in the search.
The Malaysian govt is coming across as incompetent in all this. I'm not saying they actually are, but it's the impression they are putting out.
A lot of suspicious elements, including the stolen passports, might add up to a worst possible scenario, besides the crash of the aircraft. The transponder was off, no debris from the aircraft has been spotted anywhere in the waters yet, and if it crashed on land, signals from the "black box" would have been detected, but that was not the case.
There is one remote possibility that individuals took over the flight deck, turned off the transponder, and the communications systems that can be used for cell phones, if it had such a system, landed the aircraft on a remote abandoned air strip without being detected. A fully-loaded wide-bodied Boeing 777-200 can land and take off from runways as short as 6,000 feet, and the area they might have landed in does not have any communications towers or facilities that can be used for cell phone communications. The passengers could have been unloaded with all of their belongings, in preparation for a catastrophic terrorist attack somewhere in that region, or worst yet, in the United States. The aircraft was in flight for about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, and with the aircraft's fuel capacity and 8,000-mile range, with no passengers and luggage on it, they maybe able to fly the aircraft to a major city on the west or east coasts and God forbid, fly it into a building like they did on September 11th, 2001.
Given that the country of Malaysia, as others have mentioned, is a third-world country, and possibly without the heavy security provisions at airports that are available in most countries around the world, the individuals who are responsible could have taken advantage of the weak security and they intentionally chose the airline, the aircraft, and the departure airport for a sinister purpose.
I hope I'm wrong, but I hope it's something officials from the Homeland Security have taken into consideration. If an unidentified aircraft were detected by any of the regional control centers on either coasts, and/or by our military, and I hope they can deploy the necessary defenses in time to avoid a repeat of September 11th, 2001.
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