The Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines 370

[jimmy olsen]

Ugh, as if flying abroad wasn't bad enough.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/u-s-probing-terror-concerns-missing-malaysian-airlines-jet-n47861

U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday they are investigating terrorism concerns after two people listed as passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet turned out not to be on the plane and had reported their passports stolen.
First published March 9th 2014, 1:22 am

[11B4V]

No doubt. Shit dont just disappear like that. No mayday call. Maybe a bomb got onboard.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

It doesn't do any good if you keep it a secret!

Applies to nuclear deterrents and terrorist attacks.  A terrorist attack that doesn't generate publicity is as useless as tits on a bull.

[alfred russel]

It doesn't do any good if you keep it a secret!

Applies to nuclear deterrents and terrorist attacks.  A terrorist attack that doesn't generate publicity is as useless as tits on a bull.

Most terrorists seem to be dumbasses, so who knows.

[alfred russel]

Ugh, as if flying abroad wasn't bad enough.

You really shouldn't be concerned about flying in the 1st world because of a potential 3rd world security breach.

[Sheilbh]

Kuala Lumpur-Beijing and Malaysian Airlines are hardly third world.

[Queequeg]

Yeah.  Malaysian Air pretty regularly has ads in The Economist.  I don't associate that with dingy third-world airlines. 

[alfred russel]

Kuala Lumpur-Beijing and Malaysian Airlines are hardly third world.

It isn't about the airline or the route, it is about the airport administration.

[CountDeMoney]

No doubt. Shit dont just disappear like that. No mayday call. Maybe a bomb got onboard.

Yeah, planes never just fall out of the sky.

[Razgovory]

No doubt. Shit dont just disappear like that. No mayday call. Maybe a bomb got onboard.

Yeah, planes never just fall out of the sky.

If Obama hadn't killed those people in Benghazi this would never have happened.

[Sheilbh]

It isn't about the airline or the route, it is about the airport administration.

Okay. But again, Kuala Lumpur?

[Monoriu]

Yeah, this is all over the news here, as the bulk of the passengers are Chinese.  Probably just an accident, but of course nobody is ruling anything out, as they haven't even found the debris yet (should be somewhere near Vietnam). 

[Jacob]

It's being reported that two of the people who were on board according to the flight manifest - an Italian and an Austrian - were in fact not onboard, but both reported their passports stolen within the last year or so (in Thailand, I believe).

It doesn't mean that it's connected, of course, but still curious.

[Caliga]

Yeah, this is all over the news here, as the bulk of the passengers are Chinese.  Probably just an accident, but of course nobody is ruling anything out, as they haven't even found the debris yet (should be somewhere near Vietnam).

I think it's less likely to be an accident than an act of sabotage.  It's really unusual for airliners to just vanish mid-flight without so much as a quick distress call.  Of course, that Air France flight from Brazil to France that crashed into the Atlantic a few years back turned out to be an accident, but midflight accidents like that with not even a peep from the pilots are incredibly rare.

[alfred russel]

It isn't about the airline or the route, it is about the airport administration.

Okay. But again, Kuala Lumpur?

Yeah, where else could they be? They clearly aren't 2nd. That leaves 1st and 3rd as the options.

The capital cities of a lot of countries are much better off than the rest of the country. I've always heard the designations applied to countries rather than splitting between regions.