A shooting in the Holocaust Museum in the District.  Don't know anything other than that; could not get back in my office building downtown because it had been temporarily locked down. Just let us back in.     

Life can be as cruel as it can be good.I have some losses too, maybe that is why i so love the love i get.

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
wow.  
......wow.



my friend who was on the swiss air flight 10 years ago was with both her parents and her brother, her whole family.  her brother flew in from cali, her parents from mass and she was in nyc, they all flew out together from kennedy airport.   the company handling their will had a hard time tracking down the next of kin.   we friends had to clean out her rented apartment.   I guess her fathers nephew who lived in GB took care of the house in massachusetts.

In the papers today; young Swedish family split up,in fear of accident.The father with older child is now missing his wife and baby!

 n4ku wrote: 
In that location, there is no VHF radio coverage, only HF, and that is not constantly monitored.

Besides, in a crisis, there is the pilot's mandate: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.

Regarding the ACARS messages, one of the failures reported was of the Inertial Reference Unit, and there is a description of an ADIRU failure on a QANTAS flight here.

 n4ku wrote: 
so nobody real has claimed this, and the polot was taken out.    I think  everyone on the plane was teleported out by aliens.  they are maybe in some kind of zoo and the airplane was left to crash on its own.

or maybe an investigation into those on board about who had extremely powerful 'friends' who wanted them dead.

or maybe an instant gas was set off that put everyone out on the plane and and and.....

that said.  this is all very sad.  I'm getting flashbacks of when my friend was killed in a plane crash about 10 years ago on swiss air.  it took all day for us to get word that she was definitely on that plane.

 n4ku wrote: 

Oh...OK.  (I usually make it about 1/2 way through those articles if that).

 kysmet wrote: 
The pilot never reported anything, as far as I can tell. All the reports were automated reports sent by the aircraft itself to the airline's automated maintenance computers.

 rachlan wrote: 

It's going to take them a while to figure it out and by the time they do, it won't be news anymore so we, the public, may never know.  At least, if this is indeed wreckage from that plane, they have a place to start looking for the black box, which is probably at the bottom of the ocean by now. 

 n4ku wrote: 

Yeah, since I posted that yesterday, I've heard more updates, one of which was the fact that the pilot also reported electronic problems.

FSM, this is so sad! 

 kysmet wrote: 
According to your link, the automated system reported a loss of cabin pressure. That might have made it impossible for the pilot to do anything, including sending a Mayday.

 kysmet wrote: 
what happened to this plane!

 kysmet wrote: 
I hate to be the alarmist, but I'm thinking a bomb was set off. 

Wreckage seen in search area for missing plane

Is it strange that there's no news of the pilot making a Mayday call?  Could this have happened so fast that there wasn't even time for that?

Me,I am just waiting for some one to claim the "Kill"! (either way ,very sad news,two maybe four swedes on the plane)

 phineas wrote:
 
Powerful = short battery life. The transponders exist and the batteries last a week or so as is. Keep in mind that the antenna is likely underwater.

 dmax wrote: 
eek!

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