Vietnam media: Navy confirms flight MH370 crashed into the sea
 

UPDATE [12:37]: Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.

UPDATE [12:01]: Altogether, 239 passengers & crew, from 14 different nationalities, including two infants. Passengers were from:
1. China - 152 plus 1 infant

2. Malaysia - 38

3. Indonesia - 12

4. Australia - 7

5. France - 3

6. United States of America - 3 pax plus 1 infant

7. New Zealand - 2

8. Ukraine - 2

9. Canada - 2

10. Russia - 1

11. Italy - 1

12. Taiwan - 1

13. Netherlands - 1

14. Austria - 1


The flight was piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a Malaysian aged 53. He has a total flying hours of 18,365 hours.

He joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981. First officer, Fariq Ab.Hamid, a Malaysian, is aged 27. He has a total flying hours of 2,763 hours. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 2007.


UPDATE [11:32am]: VN Express, Vietnam's largest news site, reports that Vietnam Emergency Rescue Center just announced it has found signal of the missing plane at 9.50am 120 miles South West of Ca Mau cape, the Southern-most point of Vietnam.

The signal is believed to be the ELT (Emergency Locator Transmittor) , which can be activated manually by the flight crew or automatically upon impact.

Earlier this morning, MAS confirmed that flight MH370 had lost contact with the Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am today (March 8th, 2014)

Flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am and was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am the same day. The flight was carrying a total number of 227 passengers (including 2 infants), 12 crew members.

Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft.

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OH NO!

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"#PrayForMH370"
Somehow this rubs me the wrong way for a news post with so many people who died. Writer should have kept this hip hashtag, also draped with religion, out of it. Completely out of place.

some people find comfort in prayer :2 cents:

I cannot stand this hashtag bullshit.

This is a very sad news.

I'm sure they do.








They might also find comfort in a nice, warm enema.

RIP peoples :(

Well wish me luck, flying to China in a week and a half. Flying delta

Your chances of crashing were impacted by this tragedy?

He feels the need to mention he's going to China at least once per day.

that's a long ass trip :helpme took the trip to hawaii a few times im afraid of flying :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh that's a 7-8 hour deal to china god i would not make it :(

Was wondering about the correlation, too.

local austin news is saying that they had 20 austin residents on the plane

if a bomb was smuggled onto the plane, yes. But practically speaking, the tragedy likely made his flight safer given US intelligence is now agitated about this incident.

:2 cents:

Why do they feel the need to tell us people died from different countries.

It doesn't make it mean anything more does it?

I could careless that 4 people or 40 people died from the us/canada on it.

Was there not an alert about a month back about explosives possibly being planted on an airliner?

That being said no point in jumping to conclusions before more is known. The fact that two of the passengers were flying with stolen passports could just mean they were possible criminals and not necessarily terrorists. I just don't see Malaysian Airlines as being a target.

They were headed to China, or didn't you know that? Beijing, same place I'm going to!

Anything else from the peanut gallery?

Spent 4 1/2 hours on the tarmac in Prague before returning to the states, with one connecting flight, it took 24 hours to get home. I can handle this. My Fiance is going to be right there with me. I don't have any phobias. Last time I went to Hawaii, I was still in the Navy and took a MAC flight, I slept on a cargo net, wish I could fly everywhere like that!

MAC Military Airlift Command

what the hell does that have anything to do with this crash? The only peanut in this whole discussion is your brain.

How much airplanes from USA and Canada crashed in last 10 years?

That we are going to the same place? You don't get that, what the fuck are you smoking?

Do you even have a brain?

terrorist may be targeting the flights. :helpme confirmed two passports used were stolen :Oh crap

Its possible though, that it is a terrorist attack.

if a flight lands in a 3 world country seek other flight options. :2 cents::2 cents: workers can be bought real easy there.

o please. Non-sensationalist media report that it's practically common that in thailand people have fake passports, so it's no exception that a couple of people have them on flights in asia. Claiming a terrorist may be targetting these flights is pure sensationalism and pulled out of their asses - in short it's bullshit.

Yea, and? You expect a second plane crash going to china anytime soon, just because a plane already crashed going to the same country? The odds of winning the lottery are probably a million times bigger! Think!

I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss the possibility of a terrorist attack of some kind.

Both the passengers using the stolen passports bought them at the same time, together, in a shop that is known to service people from the Middle East, in an area frequented by some shady ass Middle Easterners. Now, that doesn't mean actually anything, but it's a hell of a coincidence.

Many here have been saying for years that where these guys gather and hang out that it's a breeding ground for terrorist activity, as Thailand is so relaxed and it's not uncommon for them not to even ask to see your passport when getting on a plane here. There are some SHADY fucking Arabs and Persians here. Not to mention, there are Muslim extremists in Southern Thailand who launch terror attacks in Thailand almost daily. The area is a breeding ground for extremists. Then there was the Middle Eastern (Syrian I think) who accidentally blew his legs off two years back in Bangkok. They had a bomb making facility in a house right in the center of Bangkok.

If that plane went down on its own, I will be surprised. :2 cents:

fair enough, guess we'll hear eventually what the cause was. Still, the fact that another plane to china will crash again anytime soon is next to impossible, just won't happen. Like i said, the odds of winning the lottery are probably a million times bigger.

sounds like you may be headed to china soon :2 cents: you will be ok or with god

That I totally agree with. Appears to be an isolated incident, or maybe even something prematurely happened if it was a terrorist event, as it doesn't make much sense to just down a plane there in the water when they could have downed it over a heavily populated Chinese city.

Hopefully they find it soon and put all the speculation to rest. I'm sure the families of the passengers are living in hell at the moment.

Amen ?. :thumbsup

What an asshole!

You can decide whether that's a compliment or an insult.

BTW< what's the T stand for? Tranny? Not that I have a problem with them, just trying to figure out what or who is UP YOUR ASS?

r.i.p. and free tibet :winkwink:

im being told 4 fake passports so far.
so stupid if this was an attack..what does it gain them?

nothing..just idiocy

fear :2 cents::2 cents:

Guy who bought the two tickets for the stolen passport passengers was... Iranian.

figured somewhere around that way :2 cents:

So compassionate

And i have 15 flights in next 45 days:) And am already scared even without that poor airplane crashing :(

Speculations are that its an asian terrorist attack against fellow asian country china over the border issues that they're currently involved in. Whats our world coming to? :Oh crap

if they were able to see it go down by radar, does that mean it went down whole?

any of the military folk know?

this is a very good post indeed.

What is great about the airline industry is that when shit happens, they make sure that same shit can never happen again. When there is a technical incident, every single modern commerical aircraft is modified so that same technical issue can happen again.And with the aftermath of something like this, security will be crazy right now.

wish we could say the same about the automobile industry.

thats media speculation. been around a number of years now.

nice answer. Again:
You expect a second plane crash going to china anytime soon, just because a plane already crashed going to the same country? The odds of winning the lottery are probably a million times bigger! Think!

I hope you will read the above again and think 'hey, that's right, me going to china doesn't have anything to do with a plane crashing that went to china as well'. But my guess is you completely miss this point.

I'll simplify it for you, your comparison is like this:
News: "A woman was driving from Las Vegas to LA, when all of a sudden a pigeon hit her windshield and she lost control over the vehicle. As a result her car flipped over in a ditch and she died."
Vendzilla: "Oh my god, I am driving to LA as well tomorrow. Wish me luck!"

Understand it now how ridiculous and unrelated your comment was?

I'm hoping this will knock down prices out of Kuala Lumpur, just like the bargains you could find right after 9/11

may the force be with you :helpme

So how come they did not find it yet? Strange in this technology age.
By the way there are conspiracies that pilots were the ones who did it. At least many in Malaysia talks about it as an option. Anybody heard about this?

If it was an act of terrorism shouldn't somebody be claiming credit for it? Without that where's the intimidation factor that is the goal of a terrorist?