What seems a teeny bit odd about this disappearing MH flight is the lack of a primary trace.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I mean, obviously if the thing went pop you'd expect to lose the squawk, but between Malaysia and Vietnam there's no solid primary cover? Hmm?

It's not like a triple 7 is a tiny wee target, either.

[Classic Jorge]

[Brentwood]

wage bill :insurancejob:?

Harry Redknapp is probably to blame

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The kind of thing the military use to notice when loads of bombers are coming over the horizon to drop high explosive on your head.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Aha!

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I saw this in a film once.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

would track this descent until it got there.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Spooky.

[Ashberto]

Is this like the military being obliged to call a road a 'line of communication'?

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

transponder :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

is the moment it 'went missing'. I'm wondering about the lack of a primary return after this point.

I'm obviously not making myself clear.

[Classic Jorge]

[Rich]

have claimed responsibility by now.

It's just in the middle of the sea somewhere, isn't it?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Maybe they all got together and decided to fly off to an uninhabited island (with a 3 km runway) and start a new and better society.

[Ashberto]

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/4499/265896-emergency_base_code_prefix.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

An awfully good movie, but a movie nevertheless.

[Classic Jorge]

You're not in the officer's mess you, you loveable old fokker eindecker, you

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

The gun then shot the bird down.

Another film.

[Ashberto]

which is now in the hands of a villain somewhere. MI6 and the CIA will get it back after a long and very tedious underwater battle where it's hard to work out who is on whose side.

Some years later the film will get remade.

[Curly]

Tractor beamed it's ass :nod:

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's just the loss of a good aeroplane that troubles me.

[Berni]

Putting foreigners in charge of a complex bit of kit like that is a recipe for disaster imo. They probably just pressed all the wrong buttons or something.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Good, reliable aeroplane though. Shame to lose one. And there's the crew to consider.

[Berni]

Apart from anything else, it's miles and miles away.