Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200

Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by fname on Friday March 07, 2014 @10:58PM (#7364172)

EDIT: The Guardian has a pretty good live blog feed giving constant updates - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airli...

Very sad. Only the third crash of a 777 since being introduced in the 90s.

[1]Confirmed 14 nationalities amongst the passengers, including:

    China - 153 (including 1 infant)
    Malaysia - 38
    Indonesia - 12
    Australia -7
    USA - 4 (including 1 infant)
    France - 3
    Canada - 2
    New Zealand - 2
    Ukraine - 2
    Russian - 1
    Italy - 1
    Taiwan -1
    Austria - 1
    Netherlands - 1

[1]: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html

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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by gregman on Saturday March 08, 2014 @12:07AM (#7364306)

Looking at the update at 2.32pm AEST makes me sad. Two people mourning over the loss of their relatives and everyone in the airport takes pictures of them. Here is the image (although I'm just spreading it around more): http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...

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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by baby on Saturday March 08, 2014 @12:20AM (#7364318)

Taking pictures of suffering people is so inhuman, we rarely see this side when we look at the news.

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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by ekianjo on Saturday March 08, 2014 @01:20AM (#7364412)

This is really disgusting indeed. But journalists also do that the whole time

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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by pcurve on Friday March 07, 2014 @11:16PM (#7364219)

Captain had almost 20,000 hours under his belt. (Btw, I'm not sure why the airline web site used that particular html file name.)

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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by tkrajcar on Saturday March 08, 2014 @12:13AM (#7364311)

Likely a reuse of their "site down for maintenance" functionality.

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