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If the plane had proper maintenance carried out on it as per the maintenance check schedules then these hours and cycles are not an issue for a 12 year old aircraft.
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MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is missing.
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Any Iranian aka Persian and Burmese on board?
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The names of the pilot and first officer have been released. The pilot is Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a Malaysian aged 53. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and has 18,365 flying hours. First officer Fariq Ab. Hamid, also Malaysian, is 27. He joined the airline in 2007 and has 2,763 hours.
The nationalities on board have just been released:
China 152 plus one infant, Malaysia 38, Indonesia 12, Australia 7, France 3, US 3 plus one infant, NZ two, Ukraine two, Canada two, Russia 1, Italy one, Taiwan one, Netherlands one and Austria one.
The nationalities on board have just been released:
China 152 plus one infant, Malaysia 38, Indonesia 12, Australia 7, France 3, US 3 plus one infant, NZ two, Ukraine two, Canada two, Russia 1, Italy one, Taiwan one, Netherlands one and Austria one.
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I wonder would you have said the same if your family is on-board.
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Relatives of passengers at Beijing airport.
Relatives of passengers at Beijing airport.
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Maybe terrorism?
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Nobody in my family is a Tiong so I couldn't give a shit.
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that is okay, there are still 1.3 billions Chinese in China. Life still goes on for the rest. The superior Chinese civilization has been around for more than five thousands of years. One air crash is not going to stop that.
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The good news is that majority are Chinese. There are two Kiwis but if they're both Maori then that makes it OK too.
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The Malaysian Airlines 777-200 that disapppared while operating the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route apparently never contacted Chinese air traffic control (ATC).
The Chinese ATC revelation, which appeared in a story posted by state news agency Xinhua, is not surprising given that contact with flight MH370 was lost two hours into the six hour flight.
An aircraft travelling on the KL-Beijing route would reach the southern Chinese coast roughly three hours into the six hour flight.
According to route data on flight tracking web site Flightaware, MH370 would have departed KL, flown northeast across the Malaysian peninsula, whence it would have crossed the South China Sea, making landfall in Vietnam.
The aircraft would have crossed the Mekong Delta region, and left the Vietnam coastline in the region of the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang.
By this point the aircraft would have been about two hours into the flight – roughly where contact was lost. After this, the aircraft would have passed to the South of Hainan Island, before reaching the coast of southern China.
A previous Xinhua report said that the search and rescue assets of Malaysia, Vietnam, and China had been activated.
The Chinese ATC revelation, which appeared in a story posted by state news agency Xinhua, is not surprising given that contact with flight MH370 was lost two hours into the six hour flight.
An aircraft travelling on the KL-Beijing route would reach the southern Chinese coast roughly three hours into the six hour flight.
According to route data on flight tracking web site Flightaware, MH370 would have departed KL, flown northeast across the Malaysian peninsula, whence it would have crossed the South China Sea, making landfall in Vietnam.
The aircraft would have crossed the Mekong Delta region, and left the Vietnam coastline in the region of the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang.
By this point the aircraft would have been about two hours into the flight – roughly where contact was lost. After this, the aircraft would have passed to the South of Hainan Island, before reaching the coast of southern China.
A previous Xinhua report said that the search and rescue assets of Malaysia, Vietnam, and China had been activated.
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No distress out? Even aircraft malfunction, pilot should have time to give distress call.
Hit by SAMs?
Hit by SAMs?
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China, Malaysia, and Vietnam appear to have activated search and rescue assets to locate a Malaysian Airlines 777-200 that disappeared while operating on the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route on 8 March.
A report by official state news agency Xinhua said “emergency mechanisms” from the three countries had been launched.
Xinhua says that of the 227 passengers on the aircraft, 160 were Chinese nationals.
“We are very worried after learning the news. We are trying to get in touch with relevant parties to check it out," the report quotes Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang as saying.
Separately, Boeing issued a statement to Flightglobal about the situation: "We're closely monitoring reports on Malaysia flight MH370. Our thoughts are with everyone on board."
Flight 370 lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control in Malaysia around 02:40 on 8 March, the airline says.
It departed with 227 passengers and 12 crew members at 12:41am, with a scheduled arrival in Beijing at 06:30. Malaysia Airlines announced the aircraft was missing at 07:24.
In a revised statement, the carrier said it is also reaching out to next-of-kin and relatives.
The aircraft is identified by the Aviation Herald as 9M-MRO.
Flightglobal’s Ascend online database says it was built in 2002 and powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines
The aircraft had accumulated 18,893h and 2,973 cycles in 12 years of service.
A report by official state news agency Xinhua said “emergency mechanisms” from the three countries had been launched.
Xinhua says that of the 227 passengers on the aircraft, 160 were Chinese nationals.
“We are very worried after learning the news. We are trying to get in touch with relevant parties to check it out," the report quotes Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang as saying.
Separately, Boeing issued a statement to Flightglobal about the situation: "We're closely monitoring reports on Malaysia flight MH370. Our thoughts are with everyone on board."
Flight 370 lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control in Malaysia around 02:40 on 8 March, the airline says.
It departed with 227 passengers and 12 crew members at 12:41am, with a scheduled arrival in Beijing at 06:30. Malaysia Airlines announced the aircraft was missing at 07:24.
In a revised statement, the carrier said it is also reaching out to next-of-kin and relatives.
The aircraft is identified by the Aviation Herald as 9M-MRO.
Flightglobal’s Ascend online database says it was built in 2002 and powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines
The aircraft had accumulated 18,893h and 2,973 cycles in 12 years of service.
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Sam strikes pilots would not have time to report problems. It is immediate impact and plane will break apart instantly thereby cutting all communications. If the weather was good, probably it was structural problem if the plane was involved in an accident before like tail striking the ground.
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could be Fatty Kim. he is shooting some missiles this week, and one missile just missed a Japanese aircraft by 7 minutes days ago.
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Even hit by a SAM will have time to send distress call. In most cases, should have time for a distress call. Even if they lose a wing, it will take a few minutes for the plane to crash from 36000 ft. Must have been explosive decompression of some sort.
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I dun understand why they still give people hope by telling people that the plane is missing. They could have let them face the reality that the plane has disintegrated in midair and they all die of terrible death plunging from 30,000 feet in the air. Being political correct has made us all hypocrites. We are all sinners everybody has a chance to die someday.
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Pls lah, 7min flight time is a lot. That could 50km different.
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