Missing Plane Confirmed Crashed

[chrissa1]

Just heard this on Sky News. Those poor people.

[chrissa1]

http://news.sky.com/story/1231059/malaysia-plane-crashed-into-the-indian-ocean

[Ken4155]

It's what we all believed and expected. Which doesn't make it any less tragic, of course.

[Graham-W]

Why has it taken 16 days for this "new" data to be made available? Someone must have looked at the satellite data before now!

[Gromit]

Well that is a pretty obvious conclusion. Only the people who thought it had been stolen by aliens will. Be surprised to learn that it has crashed into the sea.

[chrissa1]

I agree, Graham-W. Why did it disappear for all this time and found so far from its flight path. Very sad.

[albaqwerty]

confirmation at last which, I hope, brings some sort of closure to the bereaved.
Instead of wondering what and if, it's confirmed.

The only mystery now is why it was flying in the opposite direction from it's supposed route. Speculation will be rife on that, no doubt.

Graham, I've a sneaky feeling that 'they' were looking more in the northern corridor, than the southern one.

[anotheoldgit]

Very, very tragic, what those poor relatives and friends must have gone through these last few weeks not knowing whether or not, it had perhaps been hijacked and their close ones set down in another country safe and well, or if they had all died in a horrendous crash.

[BlueToffee]

Now it's been confirmed I offer my sincere condolences to all those who have lost relatives and friends on MH370.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Only the people who thought it had been stolen by aliens will. Be surprised to learn that it has crashed into the sea. ///

These type of quips are not appropriate at this time Gromit.

[tamborine]

tragic all round but they must retrieve the black box to understand why the plane went off course.

I hope this isnt the end of the search.

[pixie373]

How terrifying that must have been and for the families to be waiting to hear. Not unexpected, but awful anyway.

[chrissa1]

They believe it has crashed where the sea is 2000 to 4000 feet deep, so there is hope that the black boxes maybe found.

[Zeuhl]

David Icke (yes, i know...) is circulating the information that 20 of the passengers were significant employees of a Radar and Electronic Warfare company.

[ummmm]

AOG - but some people 'did' think it had been abducted by aliens.

I hope they all RIP.

[albaqwerty]

I heard on the news that the US had sent over a blacok box search type gadget a few days ago.
Don't know if it's arrived yet.

oh Zeuhl, that'll give conspiracy theorists a field day surely?

[Zeuhl]

OK

The Express is slightly less nutty than David Icke:

/A US technology company which had 20 senior staff on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had just launched a new electronic warfare gadget for military radar systems in the days before the Boeing 777 went missing./

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/465557/Malaysian-plane-20-on-board-worked-for-ELECTRONIC-WARFARE-and-radar-defence-company

[chrissa1]

Nobody takes David Icke, seriously.

[mikey4444]

It has been obvious for some time now that this plane crashed into the sea.
Not at all sure why it has taken so long for them to admit it.

[mikey4444]

Icke is complete bozo, and is best ignored.

[LazyGun]

The "new" satellite data was known 3 days ago, which helped to narrow the focus of the search.

Good article on how the inmarsat satellite data helped to define the possible routes of the plane in this article from "Slate"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/21/mh370_new_inmarsat_data_narrows_missing_airliner_s_flight_path.html