Missing from radar screen - One Boeing 777

[dodgy]

couple of hundred miles for me has always been fine, however if it's been raining then will clean and lube.

I will tweet this advice to the Malaysian authorities.

 

[ianrauk]

I will tweet this advice to the Malaysian authorities.

How strange... how did this get here?

 

[MontyVeda]

And the wing just falls off? Just like that? What universe do you live in?

that very thing happened to plenty of my airfix planes

 

[Smurfy]

How strange... how did this get here?

Maybe someone turned off the transponder and hijacked it?

 

[hoopdriver]

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that very thing happened to plenty of my airfix planes

I roasted a chicken last Sunday and the same thing happened. Everyone said it was delicious.

 

[MontyVeda]

we need further speculation on the possible reasoning behind the potenial hijacking... just claiming 'hijack' isn't doing it for me

 

[Smurfy]

we need further speculation on the possible reasoning behind the potenial hijacking... just claiming 'hijack' isn't doing it for me

The US has already proposed the concept of 'hijack for future use'. You should try reading some of the comments below that Daily Wail article I posted previously.

Here's one for a start. Get your teeth into this scenario!

When this plane comes flying over the horizon, loaded with innocent passengers AND a nuke or other bomb, the West will have to shoot it down. Then, Iran can claim they did nothing, and we'll never be able to prove they did. Diabolical, and we have such a dummy for a President, he's always one step behind. He is more interested in seeing the military become "multi-gender" friendly, than in protecting America or it's allies.

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 2977451, member: 9609"]that doesn't surprise me with your dodgy diy skills [/quote]
dodgy!?!?!

 

[classic33]

Same aicraft had a ground based incident in which damage was caused to the tail, a few weeks earlier in Japan.
Boeing/FAA had already issued a bulletin with regards the vertical tail assembly, on the 777, and had given until the 9th April for all operators to comply.

 

[MontyVeda]

i bet your wife loves flying with you Riever.

 

[hoopdriver]

[QUOTE 2977586, member: 9609"]Have you ever watched a wing during turbulence? they fair flex and bounce up and down! I have been saying it for years, my wife, indeed anyone within about 5 rows of where I am sitting will be able to vouch for this, I'm always saying "JEEZ THAT WINGS GOING TO SNAP OFF" it's worrying, my wife is a very nervous passenger.[/quote]
I fly very, very frequently and yes, I have often noticed wings flexing. That's what they do. No biggy. Flexing is a long way from falling off!

 

[Smurfy]

Still no chance of confining your links to something suitable for grown ups then?

No, and you're a closet Daily Mail reader anyway.

Why? Do you feel a lower standard of behaviour appropriate in some parts of the forum?

Don't confuse 'lower' with 'different'.

 

[CopperBrompton]

"I wouldn't be nervous about flying if the wings didn't wag. Solid steel. Thick as a bank safe. Flexing like tree branches. It's not natural"

Flexing is precisely why they don't break.

This is what it takes to break the wing of a modern airliner:

 

[JoeyB]

Where has the cycle chat love gone?? Everyone needs to hug it out lol

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

[QUOTE 2977696, member: 9609"]best way to snap something off (particularly metal) is to bend it up and down as fast as you can. Just pushing in one direction is never going to do the trick.[/quote]
That's why aeroplane wings don't flap.