Malaysian Airways flight MH370 has disappeared

[erifpsiW]

What do you mean? Can the phones receive the calls?

About 19 families in China have reported they're able to call the phones of the passengers and not go straight to voicemail, as it would normally go if the phones were in airplane mode or turned off.

This could just be a false alarm though, sometimes phones automatically ring even if the other end is unable to be received.

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[xSetrox]

what if the mile high club plane was right next to it
and they all switched flights

[Malleo100]

This had to happen right before I fly to Chicago

[Gojira]

If the phones are still operational, why not track 'em?

[erifpsiW]

If the phones are still operational, why not track 'em?

They're trying, but it doesnt seem to be working.

Update: Last message from the flight was "All right, good night."

[XR-7]

Just saw something on the news saying that the plane flew a couple hundred miles north of Kuala Lumpur before the plane's track was lost. They have no idea whether it crashed, changed direction, etc. A lot of this is old news, but the plane might as well have fueled up on an island somewhere and gone to Antarctica for all we know. If it was never noticed in China, it either crashed between Malaysia and China, or turned around to go elsewhere. I'm leaning towards a crash though.

[Jubel]

Terrorists

[Pie Crust]

The plane turned west after it dissapered from the radar. And the guys with stolen passports are from Iran. (or Iraq, I don't remember).

[SeventhSandwich]

The plane turned west after it dissapered from the radar. And the guys with stolen passports are from Iran. (or Iraq, I don't remember).

Yeah but they investigated one of the guys and he was seeking asylum in Europe or something, so it's unlikely that he was a terrorist.

[Pie Crust]

I wonder why the plane would have turned west. There are direct flights from Bs As to NY on the same plane. I doubt it was for refuels. And the phones don't call. The tone is what companies play while looking for the phone since international calls take time to begin so, for the user to not hang up, they put the tone. Then they hang up because they couldn't find the phone. That was explained yesterday after a mass mailing to China's phone companies.

[Flatflyer]

They may have located it

Satellite images on a Chinese government website show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner floating off the southern tip of Vietnam, near the plane's original flight path, China's Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.

The revelation could provide searchers with a focus that has eluded them since the plane disappeared with 239 people aboard early Saturday.

The Xinhua report said the images from around 11 a.m. on Sunday appear to show "three suspected floating objects" of varying sizes, the largest about 24 metres by 22 metres.

[Comatose]

If the phones are still operational, why not track 'em?

The phones aren't operational, what gave you that idea?

[erifpsiW]

They may have located it

It was false.

Apparently the plane still received satellite messages, and was detected by them about 4 hours after the transponder went offline, heading to the Indian Ocean.

[Muslim]

so weird

[erifpsiW]

All sorts of new developements.