Comments on: France, Brazil Scour Ocean For Missing Jet

Sarkozy: Prospect Of Finding Survivors "Very Small" After Air France Jet Carrying 228 From Rio To Paris Disappears

[mrs_trepidatious]

Maybe Spongebob can help with the search.

[richhong]

Yahoo News was reporting that France requested US support in finding the plane. Heck, the last time they helped us was 200 yrs ago! They sure haven't done squat with Iraq or Iran.
Posted by vinylogy at 12:44 PM : Jun 1, 2009

Vin, you probably are delusional enough to think that your message was somehow "patriotic." But you are the kind of patriot who makes the rest of the world think badly about the U.S. This is a humanitarian request. And if you want to be loyal to the values of the U.S.A., humanitarianism is supposed to be one of our virtues.

When it comes to helping out with the wreckage of a civilian airliner, we should be willing to help anybody. Even North Korea or Iran. If Iran lost a plane over the Atlantic, I'd still want us to help. It might even build some trust.

[hermitdave]

The world has not witnessed the vanishing of jet aircraft that big since the magic day in BUSHWORLD called 9/11/01.

[cmp271]

Lightening has been known to down a plane, it happened in 1985 at Dallas. It shorts out all the systems. How ignorant to have taken off to begin with.

[vinylogy]

This confirms my need not to fly. Ever. What a horrible, terrible way to end your life. Posted by mediabrat60
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I wonder if its worse than being pinned in a burning automobile with your chest crushed and half of your face removed while firefighters try in vain to free you from the wreckage. In a plane the pressure loss knocks you out quickly, in the car you just burn.

[modonnel21]

To the French and Brazilian people: I am very sorry for your loss.

[vielmann]

Yahoo News was reporting that France requested US support in finding the plane. Heck, the last time they helped us was 200 yrs ago! They sure haven't done squat with Iraq or Iran.
Posted by vinylogy at 12:44 PM

Well, let's just forget that Americans were on the plane, as well. What an idiot.

[vinylogy]

Yahoo News was reporting that France requested US support in finding the plane. Heck, the last time they helped us was 200 yrs ago! They sure haven't done squat with Iraq or Iran.

[oiaf17]

Another Airbus fall apart in mid air. Probablly the computer take control away from pilot and break off wings. Airbus most dangerous jetliner in world. Worse than DC-10. Airbus computer crash a plane in Japan, pilot could not stop it.

[spiritwalk]

Since all commercial jets have (forgot the name) locator gadgets, wouldn't it work underwater as well as over land? It seems ridiculous in this technological age that planes are not found.
Posted by puzzler125
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Even with the most modern, and most secret, technology even naval submarines are often unable to make contact when a few thousand feet below the surface.

This airplane, like the Titanic, may have been ?drifted? with the currents to a final location on the bottom that is miles from where it entered the water and like the Titanic could have been in pieces when it hit bottom. The locator could be miles from the main wreckage and in an underwater mountain valley where you might not be able to pick up a signal even if you were right above it.