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Blue_Tires

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10. They still need to know why

Reply to DebJ (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 03:08 PM

Oct 2014

if nothing else, then just to explain the course deviation and transponder shutoff...

and FWIW it has been a long time since a large commercial aircraft disappeared without a trace...Off the top of my head, I can't think of any since the 1970s...

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Search resumes for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 [View all] Baclava Oct 2014 OP

Good, that will give CNN something to gnaw on besides Ebola. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2014 #1

ha, good luck with that Baclava Oct 2014 #2

Bottom of the ocean get the red out Oct 2014 #3

The mystery is why they have found no wreckage, none. former9thward Oct 2014 #12

If it didn't all sink get the red out Oct 2014 #13

Yes, that's the point. former9thward Oct 2014 #17

Not if someone landed it on the water. FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #18

The Hudson River landing happened in the middle of the day. former9thward Oct 2014 #20

Thanks get the red out Oct 2014 #22

That is the point that I'm really confused about........ Logical Oct 2014 #25

Yes, to date the strangest disappearance I have heard about. former9thward Oct 2014 #27

Which is exactly why it may not have landed in the ocean Reter Oct 2014 #30

Right you are. former9thward Oct 2014 #34

I love your choice of the word "gnaw". Avalux Oct 2014 #19

Imagining RobinA Oct 2014 #4

yep, just imagining the Bahamas as mountaintops with edges that plunge miles deep Baclava Oct 2014 #8

Thank you for the update, I hope they find something. uppityperson Oct 2014 #5

I wonder if they will ever look at the possible northern route again? EX500rider Oct 2014 #6

I really do not understand the money and effort being spent on this. Planes do disappear. DebJ Oct 2014 #7

They most always try to recover downed planes.... Little Star Oct 2014 #9

So will they eventually stop? Or keep looking for eternity? n/t DebJ Oct 2014 #14

it hasn't even been a year JI7 Oct 2014 #15

They still need to know why Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #10

Finding it and knowing what happened can help tp prevent tragedies like this Raine Oct 2014 #16

That's why they have the NTSB crash investigations, you know Baclava Oct 2014 #23

Thanks! Call me crazy but I want to know what happened. Little Star Oct 2014 #11

You're welcome. I want to know too. It's Technology vs. The Ocean Baclava Oct 2014 #24

How do you know it's "The Ocean"? Reter Oct 2014 #29

I have ruled out time travel and UFO abductions for lack of evidence for the time being Baclava Oct 2014 #32

I have the same evidence as everyone else, none Reter Oct 2014 #35

That would be nice, but I doubt they will find out anything except the location of the wreck ohnoyoudidnt Oct 2014 #26

I doubt they'll get very far with that approach KamaAina Oct 2014 #21

It's time to think outside the box Reter Oct 2014 #28

Well, waiting for the thread that says cwydro Oct 2014 #31

I hope you're not laughing at my informative thread Baclava Oct 2014 #33