How do you lose a 777?

Road Guy · Mar 10, 2014

How the hell do you lose a 737?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-knowns-unknowns/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Weavs33 · Mar 10, 2014

Capt Worley PE · Mar 10, 2014

It is a 777...and they saw a slick, and I believe a door. Just a matter of time before they recover something, I guess.

Supe · Mar 10, 2014

It's amazing that no debris field has been spotted thus far, despite the what, 9 mile long oil slick?

Road Guy · Mar 10, 2014

my bad 777.. Still pretty large plane, but I guess them are some big mountains.....

snickerd3 · Mar 10, 2014

so it didn't just land somewhere safe and sound and the flight control crew just missed it??

Dexman PE PMP · Mar 10, 2014

Headlines this morning said the oil slick was unrelated, and the "door" wasn't actually a part of the plane but just some unrelated floating debris.

Road Guy · Mar 10, 2014

thats what I saw on the news this morning, granted it was MSNBC so accuracy isnt always there thing..

Capt Worley PE · Mar 10, 2014

How long was that French jumbo MIA in the south Atlantic before they found it?

mudpuppy · Mar 10, 2014

777s are huge, there aren't too many commercial airliners bigger, some airlines seat 10 across in that thing. So it's a pretty **** big plane to completely lost track of.

engineergurl · Mar 10, 2014

I realize that there were three Americans on board, but why are(were) we providing the most resources to look for it?

Capt Worley PE · Mar 10, 2014

^We are resource poor in that area at this time.

Capt Worley PE · Mar 10, 2014

I suspect terrorists upset at a video someone made.

Dexman PE PMP · Mar 10, 2014

I saw an article saying two of the passengers had their passports/tickets stolen. Security shows that their tickets were used, but by some unknown other people.

Sometimes theft can be a good thing? :dunno:

engineergurl · Mar 10, 2014

Dexman PE said:
I saw an article saying two of the passengers had their passports/tickets stolen. Security shows that their tickets were used, but by some unknown other people.

Sometimes theft can be a good thing? :dunno:

Wow, that is a twist on the story that I read... which said there were two passengers using stolen passports, but both had been stolen years/months ago and reported as such into some database run by the French Lyon people or something like that.

Capt Worley PE · Mar 10, 2014

engineergurl said:
Dexman PE said:

I saw an article saying two of the passengers had their passports/tickets stolen. Security shows that their tickets were used, but by some unknown other people.

Sometimes theft can be a good thing? :dunno:

Click to expand...

Wow, that is a twist on the story that I read... which said there were two passengers using stolen passports, but both had been stolen years/months ago and reported as such into some database run by the French Lyon people or something like that.

That's the story I heard, EG.

Master slacker · Mar 10, 2014

Road Guy said:
How the hell do you lose a 777?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-knowns-unknowns/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Yo mama so fat...

csb · Mar 10, 2014

I would hazard that we're the most put together for this kind of thing, no matter what you may think of the NTSB. We've headed out and assisted on other foreign plane crashes. I actually don't mind when we have subject matter experts that can help.

Weavs33 · Mar 10, 2014

The island moves, geographically and through time, they are not going to find them

Capt Worley PE · Mar 10, 2014

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/malaysia-airlines-freescale-idUSL2N0M602O20140309

(Reuters) - Twenty employees of U.S. chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor were passengers on a Malaysia Airlines flight presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast, according to a company statement on Saturday.

How do you lose a 777?

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