<p>Not if you ascribe to the hidden on a remote island to be used in some later attack theory ;)</p>
<p>And not to be all tin foil hat like - and trust me, hubby just rolled his eyes at me…3 Malaysian planes in a year? Does that seem a little hinky to anyone else? </p>
<p>Well the one that got shot down I think is a separate issue. But two planes disappearing after what seems to be suspicious actions – no distress calls, no alerts, no warnings, no nothing . . . that seems odd to me.</p>
<p>I’m heading to S.E asia next year, and my mom is against it. Stop-over at taipei, and I think the carrier is china air or something…I really want to go, and this incident is not helping me in convincing my mom to just relax, and let me go. Since she found out my plan, she’s constantly having nightmares and crying … :(</p>
<p>"Read they requested an unusual flight path before disappearing.</p>
<p>Isn’t it the same for 370?</p>
<p>I do not have any evidence. But somehow I tend to believe both of them are man-made disasters. After all, both are close to the area where there seems to be some instability due to various society reason (politics.)"</p>
<p>Unless you read something different than I did, I read they just asked for a deviation from course, and a climb from FL 320 to FL 380, they were cleared off course, but not to climb. That is not unusual at all. If you have thunderstorms, you do your best to not fly through them. Guys are saying the weather radar in that area at the time was showing horrendous storms. Speculation that they hit severe to extreme turbulence, potentially large hail, potential to stall.</p>
<p>In this situation, there is no reason to suspect anyone commandeered, hijacked or sabotaged the airplane. This is a classic dangerous weather situation. Usually people get around the bad stuff, sometimes they are boxed in or their weather radar is inaccurate and they end up going through it. It may be impossible to climb over it. Usually you make out okay, just a little bounced around, but sometimes people don’t. They can have some serious storms in that area, and ATC isn’t always too helpful.</p>
<p>The Malaysian jet that was shot down has no relevance on this situation, that jet could have belonged to any airline. Someone from my airline flew the same flight path across the Ukraine earlier that morning. Nothing but bad luck.</p>
<p>My son is in Taiwan this year – has already flown in and out of Taipei several times with other trips planned. His flight over left the US a few days after a pane crashed in Taiwan (likely because of weather). </p>
<p>I sympathize with your mom but your chances of dying in a car crash at home are much greater than your chances of dying in a plane crash in Asia. I am not sure that’s especially comforting, but I would never try to hold my kids back from travel abroad because of safety issues, except if they wanted to go somewhere the State Department says is a bad idea. </p>
<p>Quite sad, but still safer to fly than pretty much any other form of transportation.
It’s still MUCH safer to get in a plane than to get in your car or have a baby. </p>
<p>Either crashed or aliens. (I’m not trying to make light of the situation- I just truly think aliens are more likely than a hijack with no one taking credit.) </p>
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<p>I have to admit I was alarmed when I saw this comment until I scrolled down and saw the rest of it.</p>
<p>Ah come on, Dmitri, it was just a lame joke. Couldn’t resist. </p>
<p>But it is terribly sad for these families.</p>
<p>vanessacarlton - If your mom does let you go… heed to any cautions she has about riding motorcycles (or driving) in Asia. My kids tell me it can get crazy. </p>
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Seems to me that the only plane that was lost to instability/politics was the one the Russians shot down over Ukraine.</p>
<p>“I’m no expert, but I know enough about aviation to have questions. I think if it had crashed, the ELT would have been activated.”</p>
<p>Not necessarily according to what I’ve heard. </p>
<p>“Read they requested an unusual flight path before disappearing.”</p>
<p>I heard they requested to go to a higher altitude because of the t’storms and the request was denied because of heavy air traffic on flight path. Not unusual from what I heard to request that to get out of turbulence. </p>
<p>I keep wondering if the word “unusual” is a translation difference. For example, the pilot requested to take a route other than his usual one due to weather, and somehow the word has a different connotation by being labeled “unusual.”</p>
<p>Having just flown a few flights on AirAsia, I am sad for this upstart little airline with bright red seats and uniforms. Sad also for folks aboard in a severe storm, in a plane that went down. Terrifying! However, it still is safer than many other forms of transport, and wouldn’t hesitate to fly them again. </p>
<p>Bodies have been recovered and shadow spotted looks like airplane on bottom of ocean.</p>
<p>S believes he may have flown this airline as well when he was in the area. He says they are a fine airline.</p>
<p>Very devastating for the families but I am glad they seem to have found the plane so any comparison to the lost Malaysian plane can be put to rest. </p>
<p>So sad, but the chances of this story having a better ending were pretty much zero. Glad that the plane has been found. </p>
<p>My DD flew this airline also. She says they were terrific.</p>
<p>Very sad ending.</p>
<p>It is cruel that the families of the victims found the results in real time from the image/video broadcast on TV. Very sad indeed.</p>
<p>I think that grieving families would prefer the painful though prompt honesty being provided by AirAsia, vs. the evasiveness shown by the Malaysian gov’t over MH370 </p>