What I don't understand is..The plane left Brazil at 22.30 GMT last night, and they lost contact with it at 06.00 GMT today according to the beeb and CNN. Which I reckon puts it somewhere near the Canary Islands about 8 hours into the flight. So why are they now looking for wreckage off the coast of Brazil? The time/distance doesnt tally.
edit. UPDATE all the news channels are now changing their text, bbc now says lost contact at 1.30, and elsewhere it refers to a message received at 2.30. So I give up :)
(edit. UPDATE all the news channels are now changing their text, bbc now says lost contact at 1.30, and elsewhere it refers to a message received at 2.30. So I give up :)
Three Dog Man,
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:38,
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Sounds like a maths question...Is the answer Richard Branson profits?
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Rocker_44 (-_-) shhhhh! Is asleep on,
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:43,
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It's fallen into a Donnie-Darko style time portal.One of the engines will be a major plot point for someone.
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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:43,
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Maybe it went a different route?I noticed this when we went to Las Vegas a couple of years ago - we went via Greenland. I figured that it must be because of the curvature of the earth or something.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:43,
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Coriolis forces.Also, sea monsters.
( The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:46,
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What, 8 hours on a direct flight and still near the Brazilian coast? Surely not.I suspect they lost contact much earlier than 06:00 and thought it was just a transponder failure and didn't raise the alarm.
( Three Dog Man,
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:48,
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It's ok, they found it:
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:46,
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Quick... call Johnny Ball!
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Mon 1 Jun 2009, 12:46,
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