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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370-Updates and Discussion

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    #1772
    kona
    Registered Users Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    Aerohead wrote: »
    Update on the Witch Doctor taken from pprune it really is a heart breaking for all those involved and then we sink so low to this.

    If only this wasn't to do with something so serious.


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    #1773
    bangkok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    kona wrote: »
    If only this wasn't to do with something so serious.

    maybe they believe it will work and are out of options....


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    #1774
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    bangkok wrote: »
    maybe they believe it will work and are out of options....

    That's precisely what the problem is.


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    #1775
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    They should offer some Irish travellers the scrappage rights and this wreck will be found in no time.


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    #1776
    zoe 3619
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭zoe 3619


    Photos of the two passengers travelling on false passports are on the daily mail.UK website (sorry don't know how to post link)apparently these are the pictures that all the mainstream media are using.not sure what to make of it,but pictures seem to have been photoshopped.both guys have the same legs.same trousers,shoes,identical stance.even the same dirt marks on the floor at their feet.


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    #1777
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Googling boeing 777 liferaft brought this up:

    http://www.cmaviationservices.com/aircraft-life-rafts

    raft_0.jpg

    Leaving out 777 found this:

    http://www.thinknice.com/eight-complete-idiots-true-stories/

    Life-Raft-675x450.jpg


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    #1778
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    kona wrote: »
    Unlikely who paints a life raft black?

    i didnt even know that plane had life rafts! i thought life jackets were their lot and the wings!

    would the emergency shoot be the life rafts in most cases?

    if this was a component of the plane and nothing else is there in that area, it just shows the enormous challenge ahead, the plane could be spread in 5 million pieces across the entire region, especially after 5 days of drift.

    a mate of mine is in the area and he said that last night he was on a similiar flight last night... the Malaysian airwarys pilot on their plane had a minutes silence for the pasengers and then asked the passengers on the window seats to keep on the water for the plane!....surreal.


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    #1779
    bangkok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    getting a witch doctor is like an irish person praying to st Anthony when they lose something.... a last resort


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    #1780
    kona
    Registered Users Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    bangkok wrote: »
    maybe they believe it will work and are out of options....

    Maybe they should buy a de lorean and try get it to 88 and see if they can go back and stop the flight, more likely to work.


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    #1781
    kona
    Registered Users Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    i didnt even know that plane had life rafts! i thought life jackets were their lot and the wings!

    would the emergency shoot be the life rafts in most cases?

    The slides are the rafts , pull a pin and they float away .


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    #1782
    canhefixit
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭canhefixit


    Aplogies if this has already been said but didnt I think it was an Adam Air flight around 2007 dissappear in similair circumstances? It dissappeared of radar and couldnt be found for days only for investigations to show that mechanical problem and piliot error resulted in a complete nose down crash into the sea at high speed, dosent this missing plane story sound very similar?


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    #1783
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    bangkok wrote: »
    getting a witch doctor is like an irish person praying to st Anthony when they lose something.... a last resort

    Or St. Jude, for lost causes..... :(


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    #1784
    Fred Swanson
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    #1785
    brandon_flowers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Googling boeing 777 liferaft brought this up:

    http://www.cmaviationservices.com/aircraft-life-rafts

    raft_0.jpg

    Leaving out 777 found this:

    http://www.thinknice.com/eight-complete-idiots-true-stories/

    Life-Raft-675x450.jpg

    Those are offshore/ship type life rafts. I've been in them a few times (for training thankfully). The slides double as life rafts for aircraft. I think they can be disconnected by a painter line.


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    #1786
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    A Witch Doctor is nothing to be laughed at in Malaysia, they are one of the most superstitious countries in the world and the paranormal goes part and parcel with their culture, Witch Doctors are very highly regarded and respected among their people for all sorts of purposes.


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    #1787
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Xenji wrote: »
    A Witch Doctor is nothing to be laughed at in Malaysia, they are one of the most superstitious countries in the world and the paranormal goes part and parcel with their culture, Witch Doctors are very highly regarded and respected among their people for all sorts of purposes.

    While that's all fine an dandy, it's not much use to the investigation!


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    #1788
    kona
    Registered Users Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    Xenji wrote: »
    A Witch Doctor is nothing to be laughed at in Malaysia, they are one of the most superstitious countries in the world and the paranormal goes part and parcel with their culture, Witch Doctors are very highly regarded and respected among their people for all sorts of purposes.

    Yea but it's aload of bollox and has no place in aviation investigations. If this is the kinda **** they are at no wonder it hasn't been found.


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    #1789
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    sopretty wrote: »
    While that's all fine an dandy, it's not much use to the investigation!
    kona wrote: »
    Yea but it's aload of bollox and has no place in aviation investigations. If this is the kinda **** they are at no wonder it hasn't been found.

    I agree, but people should not be ridiculing anothers culture that they know nothing about.


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    #1790
    brandon_flowers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    sopretty wrote: »
    While that's all fine an dandy, it's not much use to the investigation!

    Every American president says "God Bless America" at the end of their speech. He is not much use to them either but it still has to be said.

    When I go to a shipyard in Singapore and they have a blessing/ritual at the start of a project you damn better respect it or you are off the job.

    So them having a witch doctor is to maintain their tradition.

    In Ireland 50/60 years ago if someone said during a search "we are going to say a decade of the rosary now" they would not be laughed at.


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    #1791
    2 stroke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    zetalambda wrote: »
    They should offer some Irish travellers the scrappage rights and this wreck will be found in no time.
    They might already have it.


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    #1792
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Points taken from Kona, Xenji and Brandon. But I'm not in Malaysia.


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    #1793
    EI-DOR
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭EI-DOR


    Have the Indians been asked to start searching off their Coast?


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    #1794
    Calina
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Calina


    sopretty wrote: »
    Points taken from Kona, Xenji and Brandon. But I'm not in Malaysia.

    The search isn't happening off the coast of where you are then.

    I'm not generally in favour of superstition but this country hasn't gotten shot of the idea of faith healers either so...


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    #1795
    kona
    Registered Users Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    Xenji wrote: »
    I agree, but people should not be ridiculing anothers culture that they know nothing about.

    Wen that **** gets involved in a major SAR and and air crash investigation which could affect every 777 in flight, well then yes I'm gunna ridicule the crap out of it. I wouldn't even be ashamed of it. Makes it look like a circus.


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    #1796
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    kona wrote: »
    Wen that **** gets involved in a major SAR and and air crash investigation which could affect every 777 in flight, well then yes I'm gunna ridicule the crap out of it.

    Good man.


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    #1797
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Calina wrote: »
    The search isn't happening off the coast of where you are then.

    I'm not generally in favour of superstition but this country hasn't gotten shot of the idea of faith healers either so...

    Is this the same dude (or a different one?) to the fella who claimed he knew that elves had taken the aircraft? And that he could see the black shadow in the shape of an eagle, hanging over the aircraft?

    I'm neither in favour nor against faith healers but I will question logic!!!


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    #1798
    bangkok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    yes it is ridiculous to slag off them getting a witch doctor very common in that part of the world and they believe it will work. Sure don't the FBI and CIA use physic detectives!!!!


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    #1799
    Gator
    Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Gator


    Cant see anymore info related to the raft finding, I would be going back to the spot where they "dropped" it and trying to recover it.

    The whole thing is a shambles, the press conference does nothing to supress the heresay but only add to more conjecture, They need somebody in pronto to manage the PR as this is turning into a joke.

    The witchdoctor thing is a load of crap, however, they should be allowed to practice their beliefs but dont bloody show the thing on public tv!

    I really feel sorry for the families, at least with the AF incident you had confidence in the French and they way they handled it, the families must be distraught with the way this is being handled


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    #1800
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    bangkok wrote: »
    yes it is ridiculous to slag off them getting a witch doctor very common in that part of the world and they believe it will work. Sure don't the FBI and CIA use physic detectives!!!!

    Not that I'm aware of? Then again, the US doesn't seem to know what CIA does if you 'believe' today's news broadcasts!


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    #1801
    David086
    Registered Users Posts: 623 ✭✭✭David086


    Any word of when the last maintenance check was preformed? Anything show for it? Have heard no mention of it in the media and it would be the first thing I'd ask.


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