How is it that another airplane has disappeared?

[Renew Deal]

No solid leads. No transponder signals. Just vanished once again. If they can't find a plane in the Mediterranean, they'll never find one in the Indian Ocean. But that's another story.

I don't understand how an airplane can disappear in the Med.

[AgerolanAmerican]

1. You know what else is equally strange?

That Bridget from Cardholder Services can call every phone number in America 50 times a year and a government that does full-spectrum surveillance on all of us can't seem to stop her.

[uppityperson]

6. We've been hearing from her evil twin, Carmen.

[Downwinder]

2. If the North Pole is shifting,

does it move the Bermuda Triangle?

[Major Nikon]

8. Nah, they just change the maps

[Recursion]

3. I thought the theory as of now was "somebody blew it up"? (nt)

[ohnoyoudidnt]

11. A mid-flight explosion seems possible, but I think there can be other causes

other than a terrorist attack.

[Major Nikon]

18. There most certainly can be lots of possibilities

Egyptian officials are saying it's more than likely terrorism, but I don't think anyone knows for certain at this point.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. I thought they found wreckage.

Anyway, give it a couple days before you declare it un findable.

The one in the Indian Ocean was lost on purpose by one of the pilots. That's kind of a special case.

[uppityperson]

7. Recent news is that it wasn't from the plane. Just life jackets from a boat

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. Ahhh. I had the tee vee on in the background heard wreckage/life jackets.

I haven't checked airliners.net since yesterday. They have all the technical stuff from pilots' perspective.

[Albertoo]

5. I don't understand how an airplane can disappear in the Med

If I read correctly, the sea can be up to 2.5kms deep in that part of the Mediterranean?

[Warpy]

9. Not only that, but it made a couple of really erratic turns and dropped 30,000 feet

before it dropped off radar. If it went straight down, it'll take a few days for things to bob up to the surface.

It sounds like there was a struggle in the cockpit and/or one of the crew decided to commit suicide and take a whole lot of people with him.

[Albertoo]

12. Yes, I saw that

90º left, then 360º right.

Weird.

[Warpy]

15. I suppose there could have been some sort of massive instrument/control failure

but I understand the Airbus has so many redundancies built in that it's unlikely.

[Albertoo]

17. Yes. Plus the 90/360 pattern is really odd

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Is that what they are thinking now?

Last I heard they where saying bomb from some intelligence source. maybe a satellite picked up an explosion.

[Warpy]

14. I haven't a clue what "they" are thinking

because "they" have not been forthcoming.

That's just what it looks like from the report of what happened to the plane just before it disappeared.

[Agnosticsherbet]

16. It a very large area of deep water. Airplanes sink to the bottom.

Being heavily traveled, there is a lot of junk floating out there, so a debris field is not easy to find.

Give them a day or two.