Missing from radar screen - One Boeing 777

[Dangermouse]

That's what you would expect from the Sunday Sport...........is that still going by the way

 

[MarkF]

That's what you would expect from the Sunday Sport...........is that still going by the way

"Hide and seek champ found dead in cupboard" was my favourite header.

I find the retiring of the flight number, like on footballer's shirts, bizarre.

 

[Dangermouse]

"Hide and seek champ found dead in cupboard" was my favourite header.

I find the retiring of the flight number, like on footballer's shirts, bizarre.

I think its done as a mark of respect, retiring the flight number..........so is the SS still in publication

 

[MarkF]

I think its done as a mark of respect, retiring the flight number..........so is the SS still in publication

I think it's more do with removing any negative connotations that might affect revenue. It's the same regular flight in the same aircraft, bizarre.

Don't know about the Sport, I'll have a look when I nip out for my papers......

 

[MarkF]

..........so is the SS still in publication

Yes it is, the missing plane is on the moon.

[QUOTE 2979925, member: 9609"]A bit like missing number 13 out of an estate of houses ?[/QUOTE]

I never knew that, 28% of new estates don't have a 13, world's gone mad.

 

[zimzum42]

[QUOTE 2979666, member: 9609"]Interesting that one of the suspected flight paths would take it towards Diego Garcia.[/QUOTE]That's where the anti-american and tinfoil hat brigade want it to be...

There's some interesting articles doing the rounds, quite persuasive, until they descend into anti-semitic rants....

Guess it is easier to blame everything on the all-powerful yanks, helps avoid looking at ones self...
(They really aren't that all-powerful, by the way)

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Hmmm.

 

[toeknee]

Our rivals at Airbus.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2979925, member: 9609"]A bit like missing number 13 out of an estate of houses ?[/QUOTE]

Edinburgh airport didn't have a gate 13, it had 12a and 12b, got a feeling they might have changed that now though.

 

[DaveReading]

I think its done as a mark of respect, retiring the flight number

Same goes for aircraft tail numbers.

For example, British Airways traditionally refers to its aircraft by the last two letters of their registration mark, but they omitted Papa India when they registered a batch of Airbuses a few years ago, out of respect for the victims and relatives of the 1972 Staines Trident crash that killed 118 people.

 

[babytiger]

THE HUMAN SIDE OF THIS ......http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2014/03/lost_malaysia_airlines_flight_mh370.html

 

[Dangermouse]

So now.........who has them, it has just been announced that the last signals were sent after it landed, good news for all the families, but who has them and where are they.

I really do hope this information is correct.

 

[Dangermouse]

I woul think this has been known for a few days, I can bet Boeing have turned on the engine management so if they do start an engine the location will be sent

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

<pedant> I think it's </pedant> not </pendant> </pedant>

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

<pedant> I think it's </pedant> not </pendant> </pedant>

Penned antics.