Malaysian Boeing 777 missing

[keysersoze]

Isn't Boeing something like a typical American car with everything automated and the pilot's role reduced to pointing the thing in the right direction?

Yes, let's be intellectually lazy and make sweeping generalizations about stuff. That certainly aids the discussion.

[Zeakiwi]

The Kazakhstan theory has re - emerged.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/66...sts-new-theory

[Storm]

So Putin did it.

Why?

The article calls this theory fanciful, I call it silly unless he can provide an answer to why. Sounds like trying to cash in on the controversy by writing a book.

[Roamy]

lets have a poll - how many think it is in the Indian ocean?

[driveace]

I don't think it's in the Indian Ocean Roamy !
But bad news again today with the Airbus A 320 of German Airlines ,has crashed in the French Alps killing 150 passengers including staff
Another very sad day in Aviation

[Storm]

Lufthansa! (although its low cost wing) but a huge loss of life again

[driveace]

It's a 28 year old Airbus .The last A320 was the Air Asia plane that dropped into the sea in Asia with all loss of life .
Is there a problem with a) Airbus A320
B) old planes,or what is going on ?

[Big Ben]

It well my be neither. Two different causes that has nothing to do with the model or the age of the planes. This is the first plane crash of an airline I've flown with. Even though it happened a few years back the news left me speechless.

[Starter]

It's a 28 year old Airbus .The last A320 was the Air Asia plane that dropped into the sea in Asia with all loss of life .
Is there a problem with a) Airbus A320
B) old planes,or what is going on ?

There are one heck of a lot of A320s flying. To have two go down is actually a pretty small percentage.

[Tazio]

NBC is reporting that there is an (unsubstantiated) report that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit during the decent. This may not have been an accident.