Malaysian Flight MH370 777 Missing

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Malaysian 777 missing on flight from Kuala Lampur to Beijing, China. Reports suggest aircraft went missing two hours into flight. If so, reports from a Vietnamese Naval officer that  the aircraft went down in near Vietnam in Gulf of Thailand makes no sense. It would take no more than one hour and fifteen minutes for the 777 to cross the Vietnam coast from Kuala Lampur. i.e. Unless the aircraft had problems or was forced to turn around.

Edit: It now seems that the airline dropped from radar one hour after take-off. That would indeed place it in the Gulf of Thailand, around 15 min cruise flight from crossing Vietnam's coast. Estimate it crashed around 200km from point it would have crossed mainland, all things being equal.

The lack of any ATC transmission or any electronic transmissions from any automated systems suggests, unfortunately, a likely catastrophic event or mid-air break up.

Structural damage? Terrorism. Another Air France 447 type incident is unlikely despite the similarities. There were too many accidents like that prior to 447 to prevent all airlines from learning the lessons about how to deal with pitot tube failure and about how to handle airliners at high altitude.

The fact that two passengers were on false passports is worrying. Can't imagine that anyone on a false passport would pick China of all countries to try and mislead authorities. The price for failure would be very high. Leads me to wonder whether they intended to reach their destination.

Anyhow. Will have to wait for more evidence before trying to work out what occurred.

Watch this space.