This missing plane is conjuring up Stephen King's 'The Langoliers'...

[PCIntern]

a very compelling novella and even the TeeVee movie was not half bad. It was rough enough to contemplate weird crashing/disappearing scenarios when I awakened in the middle of the night for middle-aged-men's reasons, but then to read that the cell phone of one of the passengers is (ostensibly) ringing was enough to give me the willies bigtime.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. The perplexing part is that, beyond the Jet-A slick, there's no sign of it.

This reminds me of AF 447:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

[PCIntern]

2. Let me just say that I am certain that there is a rational reason

why this plane is gone...but wow, this is awful.

On edit: Love your avatar!

[malaise]

3. In a few hours bodies and body parts will float to the surface

I can't imagine the suffering of the families of these victims of this disaster

[PCIntern]

4. I'm sure you're right...

did you ever see that jeff Bridges film about the survivors of an air disaster? They have a scene late in the film of what is was like in the cabin as they were plunging towards the ground. Horrifying.

[malaise]

8. Yep I saw that

I have a good friend who survived a plane crash. He was seated in the tail - the aircraft broke apart - there was a massive fire in the front - but they ran through the black forest in the other direction. Many people died that day. He says all that went through his mind was not seeing his son again and he ran from the aircraft as fast as he could. He was a student in Moscow at the time. He is now a grandfather of two.

[The Straight Story]

5. Possible door and tail section may have been found

They will know more in daylight.

[Gman]

11. I thought the same thing

But eventually they found it and learned the cause of the crash.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. After reading this to calm me down

I'm tearing up small pieces of paper cause dad might be disappointed because I might miss that meeting.

[PCIntern]

7. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip! nt

[pinboy3niner]

9. You're wanted at a board meeting on the tarmac

I'm sure it will go very well for you.

[Blue_Tires]

10. My best friend said The Langoliers was one of the greatest things he'd ever watched

but he added that you need to be on LSD to even begin to understand it (yes, he did watch it while on LSD and off for comparison)...

[Gman]

12. Wow. That's hard core!

I wouldn't have even dared