Malaysia airlines B777 missing

[Skybird]

I'm quite sure they did not hear us.

What is not appropiate to do for sure is telling jokes into the face of affected people. All others I do not necessarily believe their consternation. Most people express dismay not because they indeed feel it, not to mention that they are not affected at all, but because they know it is expected of them due to social conventions. And such conventions can get deeply internalised.

Well.

Me and conventions.

Not always an ideal combo.

This is the GT area no? When is anything here 100% serious?


Is it funny the plane went down? No.
Do people make funnies to over come the feeling of helplessness? Yes.

I was about to post that Aliens placed a tractor beam on the Aircraft causing the turn.
About as good as all the other speculations. But I did resist that temptation.

I did hear Malaysia Airlines has a damaged aircraft for sale.
I've a report the Pilot was Sum Ting Wong and the Co-Pilot was Ho Lee Chit.


(OK. Give me an infraction)

[NeonSamurai]

I wasn't planning on handing out any infractions (not unless things get really offensive here). Just making a point that maybe some empathy or at least a little decorum is called for in this situation.

You never know who here may have had family on that plane.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

I wasn't planning on handing out any infractions (not unless things get really offensive here). Just making a point that maybe some empathy or at least a little decorum is called for in this situation.

You never know who here may have had family on that plane.

Exactly, remember that SUBSIM is a public place with a worldwide audience in that sense after all. Be nice, guys!

I'm sorry. I'm getting confused now.


I can't joke about a plane going down but I can post about survivors being shot up with better models and such.

Am I to assume there is a time limit as to when it's OK to face and deal with life's unfair turns?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Looking even more suspicious now, the two travellers on stolen passports had their tickets bought at the same time and both were booked for a flight to Europe on Saturday from Beijing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26506961

Also, spotted in the region of that 'oil' slick -

"We received information from a Vietnamese plane saying that they found two broken objects, which seem like those of an aircraft, located about 50 miles to the south-west of Tho Chu Island," an unnamed official from the National Committee for Search and Rescue told AFP news agency.

Some one knows what I'm laughing about!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

I wasn't planning on handing out any infractions (not unless things get really offensive here). Just making a point that maybe some empathy or at least a little decorum is called for in this situation.

You never know who here may have had family on that plane.

Or may have had a closer relation to Michael Jackson. I remember that there was a comparable situation in the forum when he was found dead.

If I lose a loved one in some event - visiting subsim.com one day later and study the forums for the latest chatter, would be one of the last ideas I would have on mind.

And the empathy and decorum - I reserve for the moment I stand eye to eye with somebody affected. That affects me, then, the presence of the other. But right now, the event is - just another piece of news on the news, like the massacres in africa, the Crimea crisis, and the news on the declining numberts of living tigers. Empathy needs the presence of the other. If there is no other and no personal involvement and no personal being-affected, then it is not empathy, but sentimentality.

I assume it comes at nobody's surprise that I am no friend of sentimentalities - and the pathetic symbolism and empty signal-setting in their wake.

But all that is quite academical. Honestly said, Neon, I only had the image of a triple-7 doing an Immelmann before my eyes, opposite direction to the comment about a "deep dive" before, and that amused me the same way it amuses me when Stan rolls a piano out of the window and throws it onto Oliver's head. Thgat does not mean I throw pianos out of windows and smash living people and stand by the window and laugh about them as well.

Since I have been at the receiviung end of such communications pobserved myself, regarding the fate of my mother or the dfetah of my girl long ago, I know how it feels and that it just is the way the world is running and that people live on their lives. I do not think about it, then, it triggers no perosnal emotional reaction. As long as they don't laugh me into my face while standing in front of me - THEN I take it personal, becasue then it is, for sure.

Originally Posted by Skybird

I assume it comes at nobody's surprise that I am no friend of sentimentalities.

I think We shoud start an InterNational Club!

[Jimbuna]

Late last night SkyNews reported a life raft had been spotted in the sea but that has since been classed as unrelated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26510027

[BossMark]

As the mystery grows around 2 stolen passports and what appears to be a stolen plane vanishing into thin air, police have started door to door inquiries in Liverpool.

[TarJak]

Apparently samples of the oil slicks have been found to be ship fuel oil: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-1...-board/5310874

[Oberon]

This case just gets more confusing by the hour, could it have hit the water intact and sunk intact? But then there would be liferafts full of people floating around.
If it was hijacked it would have appeared on a land based radar as it looked for somewhere to land, and if it broke apart mid-air then surely they would have found some wreckage by now.

[Skybird]

A private man has reported to the Malaysian authorities, saying that in the night he saw a white light moving in the sky, which looked different to the pattern of lights from airliners that usually are moving over his house. He then realised that the light did not move into a different direction, as usual, but towards the ocean, so a vertical movement, no horizontal. He did not thought any further about it, and went to bed, after all, it was just a distant light.

German news:. http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/weltg...ie-Boeing.html

From this witness report, it seems possible that the plane hit the ocean like a falling brick, vertically. That would also explain why there was no emergency call. When an airliner falls vertically, and not gliding in some kind, you can imagine a thousand conditions on the flightdeck that made any emergency call for the crew impossible - if the crew even was still alive at that time, and the flightdeck consoles still functional.

[TheDarkWraith]