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freshwest

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32. So as it entered the 35,000 range the plane lost structural integrity?

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sun Mar 9, 2014, 07:19 PM

Mar 2014

Would that be a blow out due to less atmospheric pressure?

I'm not sure what they are telling us here, by the term disintegration. If it happened at that altitude, as least the people didn't suffer, I guess.

RIP. Sympathy for their famiies.

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Exclusive: Malaysia plane probe narrows on mid-air disintegration -source [View all] alp227 Mar 2014 OP

For the victims' sakes, I pray that it happened instantaneously LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #1

This story is sounding more and more like a Bermuda Triangle type of incident - too weird, Hestia Mar 2014 #2

More likely a terrorist bomb! LongTomH Mar 2014 #6

Yes, but they will find them through the stolen passports, and photos they have of them lostincalifornia Mar 2014 #27

I don't understand this.... Uben Mar 2014 #3

there was something posted yesterday about the limitations of the beacons ladywnch Mar 2014 #7

That's what's had me puzzled. And the black box can take almost anything. Should be able to find it. freshwest Mar 2014 #8

I read somewhere that one of the passenger's cell phone rings Uben Mar 2014 #10

Well, they short out if they get wet. Being unable to get through would mean the passenger is sadly, freshwest Mar 2014 #18

The transposer signal has distance limits... brooklynite Mar 2014 #13

Well, there was this that I'd hoped would narrow the area: freshwest Mar 2014 #19

That made it worse... brooklynite Mar 2014 #33

I've seen video at air shows where planes can do amazing things. Like this one in Afghanistan: freshwest Mar 2014 #34

Transposer? What's that? :>) pangaia Mar 2014 #26

really Jeneral2885 Mar 2014 #11

Just heard on tv.... Uben Mar 2014 #17

EVERY commercial plane in the world has a transponder. pangaia Mar 2014 #28

I heard on CNN.... CherokeeDem Mar 2014 #15

Black boxes and ELTs... ewagner Mar 2014 #24

Yes, they work under water. pangaia Mar 2014 #30

Wouldn't that leave a very large debris field? B2G Mar 2014 #4

Ripping apart at 35,000 feet at 500mph go west young man Mar 2014 #5

The Challenger 'disintegrated' & some pieces recovered were large. Sunlei Mar 2014 #21

Demonstrably incorrect Bosonic Mar 2014 #31

That's what it sounds like. They were at 35,000 feet, so if a fire started, or a piece of the jtuck004 Mar 2014 #22

Ugh...another incident to add to incidents that stick in my brain to this day. SoapBox Mar 2014 #9

The Vietnamese think they've found some wreckage in the vicinity of the oil slicks. ColesCountyDem Mar 2014 #12

Like a cabin door floating... SoapBox Mar 2014 #14

NPR says the debris was not a match to the plane. Agschmid Mar 2014 #36

What if it was successfully hijacked.??? If the cell phone story is true its location Gin Mar 2014 #16

expected a couple seconds contact from the crew if it went down even partly intact. Sunlei Mar 2014 #20

That's my thinking, too. Gumboot Mar 2014 #23

The lack of mass debris is odd... SoapBox Mar 2014 #25

That has me puzzled, too. Something 840high Mar 2014 #29

Not necessarily... brooklynite Mar 2014 #37

So as it entered the 35,000 range the plane lost structural integrity? freshwest Mar 2014 #32

Hope everyone's safe on The Island and Hugo just failed to enter 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 ... brett_jv Mar 2014 #35