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There are pieces that no matter how violent the crash must have survived. Engines perhaps? How would hundreds of seats be vaporized? And most importantly, in over hundred years of aviation and thousands of crashes, why isn't ONE crash like this with virtually nothing found?
They are still looking for Amelia Earhart's plane, 80 years later. I believe there are many other crashes that have never been recovered.
Plenty of aircraft have vanished. The difference being that none of them were large passenger jets, with the arguable exception of the plane stolen in Angola in 2003. Half of them were in the early days of aviation before gps and satcoms. I doubt any of them invoked such a massive search effort.
Plenty of aircraft have vanished. The difference being that none of them were large passenger jets, with the arguable exception of the plane stolen in Angola in 2003. Half of them were in the early days of aviation before gps and satcoms. I doubt any of them invoked such a massive search effort.
I wasn't asked about the size of the aircraft. Regardless, the Earth is a big place. Even a 777 can get lost on it.
Plenty of aircraft have vanished. The difference being that none of them were large passenger jets, with the arguable exception of the plane stolen in Angola in 2003. Half of them were in the early days of aviation before gps and satcoms. I doubt any of them invoked such a massive search effort.
Look at that list again. There are large passenger jets on that list. There is a B707, an L1049, some DC3s and DC4s, a DC6, and there were major search efforts made for most of them. The only thing unusual about MH370 is that it is the biggest aircraft to disappear to date, and the biggest search effort.
Look at that list again. There are large passenger jets on that list. There is a B707, an L1049, some DC3s and DC4s, a DC6, and there were major search efforts made for most of them. The only thing unusual about MH370 is that it is the biggest aircraft to disappear to date, and the biggest search effort.
I'm looking, don't see any since 1980, and they are all props that were cargo flights or positioning flights.
Another thing unusual is that it was carrying over 200 people.
I'm looking, don't see any since 1980, and they are all props that were cargo flights or positioning flights.
Another thing unusual is that it was carrying over 200 people.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 in 1962 disappeared with 107 people on board. That's half the people that were on MH370.
There haven't been much since 1980, because air travel has gotten a lot safer. There haven't been as many crashes since 1980, as before. So less planes go missing.
Interesting. The news in this piece is not that it was a suicide mission, but that aviation experts were called together, and analyzed evidence to support the suicide angle. A few details not previously known came out of the process, as well.
But I'm thinking that this is the kind of thing 60 Minutes does; it's their stock-in-trade. Is it conclusive? As someone in the article said, "They still have to find the plane", meaning: there's still no concrete proof that it happened the way they say it did.
They're now saying the the plane flew further than has been thought up to now, so that it came down outside of the search zones. Where would that be: closer to Antarctica? Further south of the current search zone?
Thanks for the update. Those poor families....
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