Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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- A passenger flight carrying 239 people en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday.

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Damn.

Real life lost

Still possible to land a plane if something were wrong. Could have performed a successful crash landing in the jungle and have no comms. Here's hoping anyway.

I've always wished there was a parachute option on planes.... Screw exit aisle for emergency landing, if there is any option of crash.... I would rather take my chances skydiving with a chute

I was on a plane that had a very rough landing arriving into Atlanta once. Came down really hard and immediately had to pull up to take another pass. Scared the shite out of everyone on board. Death always feel so close when flying.

Wow this is terrible

Looking like a sad ending to this. I've flown from Kuala Lumpur to China once before but on AirAsia.

I wonder if there were thunderstorms enroute.

Side note-

Asian airlines/pilots < any western airline/pilots.

There is a stark difference in the amount of training and a completely different culture in the cockpit for Asian airlines when compared to any major carrier in the US. The captain is always right and there is zero crew resource management.
They are basically baby-sitting the automation and are nearly completely reliant on it. Very little hand flying or basic piloting stuff. The do not operate off the script well. I've had friends quit JAL because of it.