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A flight carrying 239 people has disappeared. (Flightaware)

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Re: A flight carrying 239 people has disappeared. (Flightaware)

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Post by o0-0o »

dshibarshin wrote: post #7

Statement from the airline: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html The airline lost contact at 2.40am and they only issued their first statement at 7:24am.

KL is a scary place, and their Airline is even scarier. Actually, scary is not really a word I use too much. Creepy is more like it. The airline, at 8AM in the morning, serves you breakfast in 1st class, and they make it a point to remind you several times that smuggling children is not allowed in Malaysia. Basically, instead of, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are approaching ..." - they say, "Ladies and gentlemen, just a reminder that it is illegal to smuggle children in or out of Malaysia." Now, back to the breakfast. They give you a box and it contains some random items like a Snickers bar, moist towelette, apple. Very strange place. For those of you who've been, you know why it took them five hours to report.

Regardless, God speed and prayers up.

Re: A flight carrying 239 people has disappeared. (Flightaware)

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Post by jtblin »

greatquux wrote: post #4
wxm wrote: post #3

There are unconfirmed reports that the flight has made an emergency landing in [Naning/Nan Ming] -- but hours after it allegedly ran out of fuel (7.5h of fuel on board). Hope for the best.

Where are you getting this from? This would be major news if true.

Only rumors, e.g. a tweet from Tony Fernandez (AirAsia owner) that they would be safe in Naning (China): https://twitter.com/tonyfernandes/status/442115903480557568

Re: A flight carrying 239 people has disappeared. (Flightaware)

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Post by sethhochberg »

ZoF wrote: post #11

So if contact was lost 5 hours before a statement was issued does that mean there was no failsafe in place to immediately alert them that contact was lost?

ATC probably knew they didn't have contact quite a bit earlier than 5 hours after the plane's last communication - but it would make good sense to confirm that the plane is really, actually, 100% sure out of contact before releasing a statement to the public and potentially causing panic.

Re: A flight carrying 239 people has disappeared. (Flightaware)

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Post by bruceb »

o0-0o wrote: post #12
dshibarshin wrote: post #7

Statement from the airline: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html The airline lost contact at 2.40am and they only issued their first statement at 7:24am.

KL is a scary place, and their Airline is even scarier. Actually, scary is not really a word I use too much. Creepy is more like it. The airline, at 8AM in the morning, serves you breakfast in 1st class, and they make it a point to remind you several times that smuggling children is not allowed in Malaysia. Basically, instead of, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are approaching ..." - they say, "Ladies and gentlemen, just a…

I can't say I find KL scary. It is a relatively clean modern SE Asian city. But don't bring drugs.

Re: A flight carrying 239 people has disappeared. (Flightaware)

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Post by mithras »

o0-0o wrote: post #12
dshibarshin wrote: post #7

Statement from the airline: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html The airline lost contact at 2.40am and they only issued their first statement at 7:24am.

KL is a scary place, and their Airline is even scarier. Actually, scary is not really a word I use too much. Creepy is more like it. The airline, at 8AM in the morning, serves you breakfast in 1st class, and they make it a point to remind you several times that smuggling children is not allowed in Malaysia. Basically, instead of, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are approaching ..." - they say, "Ladies and gentlemen, just a…

I really don't know what you're on about to be honest.
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