Whew!
I saw an interview on CNN with Captain Brad Hawthorne of Houston, the fireman who was on the ladder during this video. His observation, “Most people will jump before they’ll burn.”
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Debris field spotted
We won’t know its identity until some ship manages to snatch some of it up for analysis, but this sounds like the most promising find so far: New satellite images show a debris field of 122 objects floating in the … Continue reading →
Malaysian PM announces Flight 370 went down in Indian Ocean
According to “a new analysis of satellite data by a British satellite company and accident investigators,” that is. Although he doesn’t specify exactly what that data or analysis might be, I’m hearing on the news that it has to do … Continue reading →
Flight 370 and the limits
The search for Flight 370 “has exposed the technological limits of satellites” which can see the globe but are not designed to hone in on every section of it equally. Understandably, they concentrate their strongest attention on parts of the … Continue reading →
Blah-blah-blahing about the unidentified debris in the southern Indian Ocean
When I turned off my computer late last night, it was only a fairly short while after the Australians had announced they were speeding to look at some debris located by satellite many many miles off their southwestern coast (and … Continue reading →
Pieces of Flight 370 found?
I just turned on the TV as some of the cable news networks were engaged in hyping the fact that Australia has announced that satellites have imaged two pieces of debris in the southern Indian Ocean that might be from … Continue reading →
The Flight 370 plot thickens
And it will get a lot thicker before this is through. Captain Zaharie is now stepping to the forefront of authorities’ suspicions: Captian Shah [Zaharie] was an ”˜obsessive’ supporter of Ibrahim. And hours before the doomed flight left Kuala Lumpur … Continue reading →
Flight 370 update
Well, this certainly narrows it down, doesn’t it? What an “interesting” neighborhood: [Malaysian Prime Minister] Razak said countries located in the flight corridors that are now the focus of the search have been contacted so they can share radar data … Continue reading →
More on Flight 370
New information on Flight 370: Radar signals recorded by the Malaysian military appear to show the missing airliner climbing to 45,000 feet, above the approved altitude limit for a Boeing 777-200, soon after it disappeared from civilian radar and made … Continue reading →
Nothing about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 makes sense
At least, not yet. I hope that someday we’ll learn enough to make sense of it. But I’m beginning to wonder if that day will ever happen. Or if we’ll ever get a straight story on it from the authorities. … Continue reading →
The wandering airplane
[UPDATE: Malaysia’s acting Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, has said the report linked below from the WSJ is “inaccurate.” He didn’t say how inaccurate, though. He also said that the area where the Chinese claim to have spotted debris was … Continue reading →
The question on everyone’s mind: how can an airliner just disappear?
There is something uniquely terrible and uniquely fascinating about the unknown state of “missing, presumed dead” Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Airplane crashes are always dreadful and terrifying; that’s a given. But disappearance—whether it be of an aircraft, a person, or … Continue reading →