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Have you heard about this? A French airliner took off from Brazil and simply vanished off of radar over the ocean a short time into the flight. No mayday call, no distress signal, no worrisome radio messages, nothing. It. Just. Disappeared.

*poof*

Since evening time (EST), they have found debris scattered over a 3 mile expanse of ocean. Wreckage and oil spilled. Still, officials have NO idea what could have caused this tragedy. there's speculation that the airliner was the victim of a storm with 100mph+ winds, but that is nothing more than conjecture until they retrieve the black boxes from the flight. I find this to be a rather puzzling mystery. All day I have been hearing the bewildered news reports about the "vanishing". That certainly is a quite a puzzle, yes. But that's not the great mystery to me.

For me, I can't understand why they cannot find a cause for the plane's sudden and tragic disappearance. It's so PAINFULLY obvious what happened...




















Ghidorah

OMG QFT indeed!

And it didn't even go into the Bermuda triangle. Stuff happens.

Well, it isn't lighting, so it has to be a giant shark.

Yeh two hundred and fifty people almost certainly dead, lets all make jokes.

Or a mega-octopus...

...No wait, Octopi kill submarines!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LHTWmaOKpg

The headlines over here are getting really rediciulous.

"Search continues for the 2-3(can't remember) swedish lost with the plane".

I mean, that is three or two of a full planeload. Thing is they always, Always do this. Earthquake!? No swedish tourists were in the area! Terrorists!? One swedish family lost!

Shhheshhh... this damn country. All those damn countries. This planet grinds my gears.

Evidently news coming out that there was a bomb threat made on the flight a few days before, but I'm betting bad weather took it down-mayhaps multiple lightning strikes.

My prayers to the families.

Wreck found, efforts are made to recover both black boxes, which reside at six kilometres below the surface.

whatwhat wrote:Yeh two hundred and fifty people almost certainly dead, lets all make jokes.

They ain't dead, they all went to that Lost island. They are the original "others".


On a real note, I heard the French lead investigator on the radio today. He was saying that they have under 30 days to find the flight recorder as its signal only emits for 30 days. He said that they had low hope of finding the the recorder.

If I re-call right we have had rather alot of aircraft related accidents this year.I think it must of been a terrible way to die,the plane ripped apart or maybe it even going down in fire ball,not very nice.

The worst part would be knowing that the plane was going down and having to think about it for those 30secs before it disintegrates on the water. At least the end would have been pretty quick for those poor people.

The BBC website has provided a few details of what happened, along with a theory about continental air-shelves leading to spontaneous, terrible weather.

I was on a plane flying from St. Martin to South Carolina and immediately after takeoff (we're about 700 feet in the air, just passing over water), I hear the engine sound slowly fade and then complete silence. My stomach dropped out as the plane started to free fall for about 15 seconds, then the engines came back on and we went the rest of the way without incident. The crew never said anything about it, never apologized for the turbulence. Nothing. Freaked me out.

Not to be-little your terror but maybe the crew were as freaked out as you, and all they could've said was "Gee folks, at least the ignition still works".

Or, if it was an american plane, if they mentioned anything about mechanical faults, they'd probably get sued by all present.

Ya, I figured they wanted to avoid all that jazz. It was ironic because I was listening to At The Bottom of Everything by Bright Eyes which talks about a strange encounter on a plane about to crash.

Air crew apologizes for turbulence? That's like a weatherman hanging himself for bad weather.

Many times the crew will come on and say "blah blah blah sorry for the turbulence, we're almost out"

Modquisition on:

This thread has been reported as being in bad taste. In deference to the families I am going to close it down and again note a prayer for them.