https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 25 May 2026 05:59:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft/page/2#post-1487511 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:28:12 +0000 snowjewelz 1487511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: I like that the OP there only posts up things that are verified and have known sources tho! Some commenters on the other hand are just pot stirrers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft/page/2#post-1487471 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:06:16 +0000 wonderstruck 1487471@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess I'm just baffled by all the crazy theories people are coming up with despite the most logical one being that the plane quickly broke up mid-air and is in pieces at the bottom of the ocean. It seems that is about a thousand times more likely than a plane that large unknowingly landing somewhere else with over 200 people, or being shot down by the military, or whatever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft/page/2#post-1487428 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:44:05 +0000 HabesBabe 1487428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: I read that link, too (the last words one). So so sad, but I felt like some of them were badass. I know that's not the right word, but a couple of them stood out to me.</p> <p>@snowjewelz: I've been checking Reddit non-stop, too, but I try to take everything there with a grain of salt, especially after how they "solved" the Boston Marathon bombings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft/page/2#post-1487407 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:33:49 +0000 snowjewelz 1487407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: yeah reddit is where I stay for updated news! </p> <p>Now the latest trending topic is that maybe the Malaysian military shot down the plane by accident &amp; trying to cover it up and distract people from looking at the right places. 2nd most popular is somehow the pilot/crew went rogue for whatever motivation they may have.</p> <p>Sigh, so crazy. I'm just sad that nothing we say can bring back those people. And the children :crying: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft/page/2#post-1487399 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:31:05 +0000 mrsjazz 1487399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: @wonderstruck: The only bright side to this was that not all of the plane crashes ended in death--they had the transcript of the crash in the Hudson. But it was definitely not the right thing to click on, that's why there's the phrase curiosity killed the cat. It took me forever to fall asleep.</p> <p>I do like the reddit timeline thread, though. It's been really helpful. I feel so sorry for those families waiting for something, anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft/page/2#post-1487385 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:27:17 +0000 wonderstruck 1487385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: How awful, I really don't think that things like that should be made available to the public. There's just no need. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft/page/2#post-1487348 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:11:16 +0000 snowjewelz 1487348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: Oh wow, that is terrible information to come across :crying: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1487346 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:09:04 +0000 mrsjazz 1487346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: I made the mistake of reading a reddit thread last night about this flight and came across a link to a site that posts transcripts of last words from plane crashes. I'm happy I didn't listen to the recordings, just reading the transcripts was horrible enough for me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1487264 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:38:46 +0000 snowjewelz 1487264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I'm actively following updates on the missing aircraft on reddit. It's just getting more and more bizarre. It seems like after the 1st loss of contact, there was still military radar tracking this flight and it turned back around. Seems like the govt did not release this info, but they must have known b/c the ordered searches in those waters and people were confused why they didn't focus the search along the flight path to Beijing. Plus a million other things that still don't make sense w/ just about any scenario you can come up with... </p> <p>link - <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/205k0i/comprehensive_timeline_malaysia_airlines_flight/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/205k0i/comprehensive_timeline_malaysia_airlines_flight/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485864 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:13:16 +0000 Littlebit 1485864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meow: Wow, thank you for explaining all of that. Very informative!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485851 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:08:58 +0000 snowjewelz 1485851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I woke up today hoping they found something, but more of nothing :sad: I'll be following reddit and will post any news I find! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485815 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:00:27 +0000 Mrs squirreld 1485815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It boggles my mind.... I feel so badly for those left behind without answers :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485805 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:59:02 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1485805@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meow: that was a great explanation, thank you so much for that.</p> <p>Such a sad and crazy story! I hope they find it soon but I'm not sure they will. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485737 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:33:44 +0000 wonderstruck 1485737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: I guess it just doesn't seem that unbelievable to me because...well, it's the ocean. Which is obviously huge, way bigger than a plane! I hope they find it soon so that those families have some closure, but it seems to me that it almost has to be in pieces at the bottom of the ocean somewhere. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485556 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:40:43 +0000 Dandelion 1485556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ginabean3: Lost was the first thing I thought of, too!</p> <p>I can't believe they just can't find a whole aircraft! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485550 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:37:48 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1485550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meow: thank you so much for all that info! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485532 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:12:22 +0000 BananaPancakes 1485532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been obsessed with this whole thing. It's just so sad and I hate that it's taking so long to find anything. I can't stop thinking about those babies on board. </p> <p>And it looks like they ID'd the passengers with td stolen passports. Two men seeking asylum in Germany, so unlikely terrorists. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485455 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:38:30 +0000 googly-eyes 1485455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meow: very interesting! </p> <p>Whatever happened, this is so, so sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485449 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:25:45 +0000 lamariniere 1485449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meow: very interesting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485143 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:35:04 +0000 chopsuey 1485143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>so sad. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485096 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:17:34 +0000 snowjewelz 1485096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meow: No that was awesome! Thanks for taking the time to post and clarify! I think logically I understand that a plane blown into many pieces is very hard to locate in a large ocean; but emotionally I just want answers for the families waiting :crying: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485059 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:02:22 +0000 Meow 1485059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: As someone in the industry, it's really interesting to hear how non-fliers perceive aviation! I'm no Sully but I'll attempt to explain...</p> <p>First of all, I don't think they disappeared without a trace. I think the plane, or what's left of it anyway, is underwater somewhere.</p> <p>My husband, also a pilot, thinks it exploded (either from a bomb on board or from an external source) and scattered everywhere, making the bits really hard to find. He doesn't think it was decompression because even with the worst case scenario of explosive decompression, the pilots would have had plenty of time to make some kind of distress radio call (being that they were at 35,000 or so when they "disappeared"). </p> <p>(Decompression is caused by cracks in the skin of the plane usu due to age of the plane and/or poor maintenance. Explosive decompression is different from a slow leak in that a large chunk of the skin explodes out at once, as in the case of the Aloha flight many years ago. But even then, the pilots landed the plane.. just with a big chunk of the fuselage exposed. This is one of the reasons why you should always keep your seat belt fastened even when seated!)</p> <p>There is something called the emergency locator transmitter on planes that sends out a distress signal if they crash on impact. However, I have never flown overseas so I don't know if this equipment is even required or used in airlines in that part of the world. I don't see why they wouldn't but I don't know. Plus, the ELT is installed in the tail which they say is typically more likely to stay intact so there's a chance it may not go off. And lastly, if the plane did explode, the ELT would have simply disintegrated along with the rest of the plane without ever having had a chance to transmit any signals. It's not made with crazy tough material like the black box is.</p> <p>There's also something called a transponder that during the course of a normal flight, is "talking" to the air traffic facilities on the ground, transmitting information such as altitude. The transponder's signals is what enables air traffic controllers to see the plane on a radar scope. But radar is limited by line of sight (curvature of earth and whatnot). So this transponder "talking" doesn't happen on overwater flights. Those controllers cannot "see" you. Instead, they are verbally informed of the plane's position via the pilot's periodic radio transmission. So if a pilot doesn't or cannot make a radio call due to some huge emergency, the controller could only guess as to their current position from their old position, expected route of flight, and time elapsed.</p> <p>So, those are probably the reasons why you might see experts say that it's not that hard for a big modern plane to "disappear." I hope it wasn't too jargon-y! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1485057 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:00:58 +0000 T-Mom 1485057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: I am hoping, like you, that any terrorist so far would have stepped forward by now to claim responsibility...</p> <p>So sad.. I have been following this story and feel so terrible for all the passengers and their families ... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1484923 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:05:30 +0000 Katrocap 1484923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The stolen passports just add to the sadness of this story. The family members of the passengers who used those passports will probably never know their loved ones' fates, even if wreckage is found. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1484909 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:59:10 +0000 snowjewelz 1484909@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm reading the bajillion pages about this on reddit. Basically, until they can find hints of the plane, any theory goes! I even went to a link to some aviation forums with pilots and etc discussing this but it was too difficult for me to understand... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1484896 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:55:37 +0000 brownie 1484896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It is strange though, that the two missing passports were bought at the same time and one went on to Frankfurt and the other to another place. If it was illegal immigration and a family wouldn't they want to end up in the same spot?</p> <p>I'm not sure it is terrorism because it doesn't make sense. But planes don't just disappear either. So it is all just strange. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1484826 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:23:25 +0000 mrsjazz 1484826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been obsessed with this plane. It's so horrible. I keep going back to Google News for updates and forgetting the time difference. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1484453 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:12:39 +0000 snowjewelz 1484453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: They say a lot of people groups use stolen passports to escape their countries and go elsewhere so speculation is that it's not a big deal in terms of the missing plane. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1484436 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:07:54 +0000 HabesBabe 1484436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: I think if it was an act of terrorism, whichever group responsible for it would've "claimed" it by now. That's why I think it was something less. Seems like Thailand is a popular place for passport theft, so I'm trying not to reach much into it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/missing-aircraft#post-1484431 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:06:29 +0000 snowjewelz 1484431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: I know right; I thought planes mostly fly on auto mode and if they suddenly want to change course they'd have to go into manual mode, which the plane should send a signal about?! </p> <p>@beaker: :sad: I know... I already have a fear of flying, now I just want to forget about my vacation! </p>