I don’t know what official policy is, but would a government immediately shoot down a hijacked plane? Even if they received intelligence that the plane was going to be flown into a high profile target or something, wouldn’t they wait and try to negotiate until the last moment, as it were? That is, wouldn’t they wait until the plane was getting close to land before downing it?
Cite for eyewitness reports:
Scroll down about 1/3 of the way down
I should have prefaced that with: WAG.
Why are these coming to light 10 days later, and why are the international news services not reporting it?
I just searched almost 8000 news articles on the Google real-time coverage list, and the word “eyewitness” cannot be found (in the title). (That link might be dynamic, so it might not be current a few seconds from now.)
Holy fuck, technology is cool!
I thought it wasn’t opening for me, too, then I started clicking on things and discovered that you have to click on the tiles in order to load the pic for that little part of the map.
ETA: I noticed, as did Musicat, that this isn’t being posted on sites like AP, CNN, ABC, etc. so I’ll hold this in the “fingers crossed” category for now.
No. That wasn’t it.
They produced at least 50 shows that each documented a crash or near-crash. All of them were about airliners. But one was about a train in California.
One of the earliest episodes was about two jet planes that collided above Los Angeles resulting in many fatalities - both on the planes and some on the ground. One or both of the planes fell into some homes and started big fires.
I found it. It was called “Mayday”.
Oh there it is http://i.imgur.com/Ee6MBIs.jpg
I’m getting frustrated by the tomnod system, I have no clue of the actual location, Is there a world map overlay that is missing? Maybe it works only with Explorer?
In case others are still wondering, the name was different in the USA and other places:
Perhaps there has been no confirmation of the Greek Tanker’s potential sighting of wreckage because it has been pitch dark.
Just idle speculation.
But I can’t imagine why CNN is not reporting it…at all.
Thank you, Athabasca.
I found the incident with the EgyptAir crash.
It was EgyptAir Flight 990 - 31 October 1999.
I found this incident to be one of the most terrifying of all airline crashes. The co-pilot gets demoted but the airline tells him of this before his last flight and it is suspected that he then used his last flight to suicide.
If he wanted to suicide, that is one thing. But why take 217 innocent people with him?
Here is an excerpt:
NTSB investigation and conclusion
The NTSB’s investigation fairly quickly centered on the actions of the Relief First Officer, Gameel Al-Batouti, and this drew relatively minor criticism from Egyptians.[17] The NTSB determined that the only way for the observed split elevator condition to occur was if the left seat pilot (the Captain’s position) was commanding nose up while the right seat pilot (the First Officer’s position) commanded nose down. As the Egyptian investigation forwarded various mechanical failure scenarios, they were each tested by the NTSB and found not to match the factual evidence. The NTSB concluded that no mechanical failure scenario either they or the Egyptians could come up with matched the evidence on the ground, and that even if mechanical failure had been experienced, the 767’s design made the situation recoverable.[1]
The NTSB’s final report was issued on 21 March 2002, after a two-year investigation, and concluded as follows:[1]
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the EgyptAir flight 990 accident is the airplane's departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the relief first officer's flight control inputs. The reason for the relief first officer's actions was not determined.
I didn’t see any way to enter coordinates, but when I went to tomnod using the link, I went through three introductory screens and clicked on a GO button and was right where I was trying to get to. Using Safari.
Charlie Wayne, now you’ll want to read about the other example – Silk Air (can’t recall flight number, easy to look up.) More relevant to the current situation (maybe), being about Indonesia, and about an embarrassed government refusing to admit the facts.
All that story about the plane is giving me a headache. However, i find it kinda funny that there are a lot of people crying because their relatives were on the flight. It is weird and stupid to lose someone that way. Blame the aliens
Albert Brooks has a reasonable theory.
What the fuck?
Think someone is trying to be a wee bit outrageous…ooh…what’s that under the bridge? Maybe trying to flame out before the inevitable banning stick thwacks him?
I think he’s been huffing deodorant.
How to solve the mystery of the missing plane:
1 - Search for the plane
2 - Keep searching until you are damn sure it is nowhere on the face of the Earth
If you found it, then the plane has crashed. Period
If you didn’t, the answer is Aliens. Either that or the plane managed to get a shortcut in the fabric of space-time which took it to a pararel Multiverse.