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With that big of a range, it'll be like me trying to find my kid's bath tub toys somewhere in Lake Texoma when at normal lake levels. Hell, maybe 10x harder than that.Originally posted by MR EDDComment
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
-Henry David ThoreauComment
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Holy fuck you guys are killing me here. I can't stop laughing at the wonderwoman picture.Originally posted by talismanOriginally posted by AdamLXOriginally posted by BroncojohnnyOriginally posted by 80coupeOriginally posted by Rick ModenaOriginally posted by JesterComment
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Maybe if you draw some pictures. I suggest MSPaint.Originally posted by BERNIE MOSFET View PostMaybe not?
I can clarify if a better explanation might help.Comment
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20 of those passengers were experts in electronic warfare?! Hmmmm.Comment
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You should work on becoming an expert in time travel.. That subject was covered pages ago.Originally posted by BoostedD1 View PostComment
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A Pentagon official is reported to have said that it has information that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down in the India Ocean.
As a result USS Kidd was reported to have been dispatched to the area and will reach there from its current search location in the next 24 hours.
The alleged change in position of the warship follows reports from the U.S. earlier today that the plane may have continued flying for another four or five hours after disappearing from air traffic control radars.
The Pentagon official told ABC News reporter Martha Raddatz: "We have an indication the plane went down in the Indian Ocean."
The Guardian newspaper later reported that a Pentagon spokesman did not know where the information had come from and the USS Kidd was on its way to Malacca Strait.
The news also contradicts acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein who earlier said that the main focus of the search would be on the South China Sea to the east of Malaysia.
The CEO of Malaysia Airlines also denied reports that the plane had continued to fly for several hours.
The Indian Ocean is to the west and covers a vast area.
Officially the search area is 38,000 square miles, roughly an area the size of the UK, and covers the Strait of Malacca as well as the South China Sea.
The plane went down in the early hours of Saturday morning and the last definite contact with the plane was at 01:07 local time with 239 people on board.
At least 12 countries are now involved in the search with dozens of aircraft and sea vessels now involved in the search.
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Originally posted by jluv View Post
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-Henry David ThoreauComment
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^ beautifulComment
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I still like the theory of the college student.
Not the first time it has happened:
Greek plane was flying tomb before crash
Most of the bodies recovered from a Cypriot plane that crashed near Athens with 121 people on board were frozen solid, a Greek official said, suggesting the airliner was a flying tomb before it plunged to earth.
As accident investigators combed the crash site for clues, aviation experts were baffled at what appeared to have been a catastrophic failure of cabin pressure or oxygen supply in freezing temperatures at 35,000 feet - nearly 10 km (6 miles) up, higher than Mount Everest. One expert said reports of extreme cold suggested there was no air circulating in the cabin.
"Autopsy on passengers so far shows the bodies were frozen solid, including some whose skin was charred by flames from the crash," the Defence Ministry source, with access to the investigation, told Reuters on Monday.
The Helios Airways Boeing 737 was carrying 115 passengers and six crew when it crashed 25 miles north of Athens on Sunday. There were no survivors.
Rescue workers recovered the body of the pilot, a German identified as Martin Hans Gurgen, and said they had found the plane's black box flight recorders, including the one that records pilot conversations, and would send them to France for analysis.
The recovery of the black boxes is crucial to determining the cause of the worst air disaster in Greece and the worst involving a Cypriot airline.
Greek TV reported on Sunday that the pilot had told air traffic controllers the plane was experiencing problems with its air conditioning system shortly before contact was lost.
A passenger list released by Cyprus' Transport Ministry showed a family of four Armenians living in Cyprus, 12 Greeks and 104 Cypriots were killed in the crash. There were 17 children under the age of 16 on board, the youngest aged 4.
Relatives of some victims were on their way from Cyprus to the crash site to start the grim task of trying to identify loved ones.
At Larnaca airport in Cyprus, from where the doomed plane took off, crew and passengers on Monday refused to board an aircraft belonging to Helios Airways, the state-run Cyprus News Agency reported.
About 100 passengers due to fly from Larnaca to Sofia demanded to travel on planes of other airlines. "First the crew refused to board, then the passengers," the agency said.
But a Helios spokeswoman denied a Cyprus Transport Ministry statement that its planes had been grounded.
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus started three days of mourning with flags at half mast in a long weekend holiday that is the busiest of the summer for Greeks and Cypriots.
Terrorism ruled out
The plane was on a flight from Larnaca to Prague with a stop in Athens. Greek authorities ruled out any hijacking or terrorism links to the crash.
The flight was declared "renegade" when it entered Greek air space and failed to make radio contact. Two F-16 air force jets were scrambled to investigate and reported that the co-pilot was slumped in the cockpit and the pilot was not visible.
Defence Ministry officials said 90 minutes elapsed between the alert being raised and the plane crashing at 12:03 p.m.
Greek government spokesman Theodore Roussopoulos said the F-16 pilots reported that with the pilots out of action there may have been a last-gasp effort by others on the plane to bring it back under control.
"The F-16s saw two individuals in the cockpit seemingly trying to regain control of the airplane," Roussoupoulos said. It was not known if they were passengers or other crew.
"The F-16s also saw oxygen masks down when they got close to the aircraft. The aircraft was making continuous right-hand turns to show it had lost radio contact."
A passenger on the doomed plane said in an SMS text to his cousin in Athens: "The pilot has turned blue. Cousin farewell, we're freezing."
Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence, told Reuters: "When he talks about being extremely cold, that really suggests that there was possibly no air circulating in the cabin at all."
Other questions included how the plane appeared to fly for so long with the pilots unconscious or dead. Media speculated it was on auto pilot and crashed when it ran out of fuel after being in the air for twice the scheduled flight time.
The Defence Ministry said it suspected the plane's oxygen supply or pressurisation system may have malfunctioned, which could have led to death within seconds for all on board.
Loss of cabin pressure was identified as the probable cause of other similar but smaller-scale air crashes in recent years.
Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet aircraft crashed in the United States in 1999 after flying for more than four hours without radio contact.
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I wear a Fez. Fez-es are coolComment
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Better than what all TV experts have been portraying thus far.Originally posted by BERNIE MOSFET View PostComment
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