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global1

(25,253 posts)
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 09:59 AM Mar 2014

CNN Has Reported That Some Fishermen Saw A Plane Flying Low....

which was unusual for them. I was wondering if the sighting area -is consistent with the flight path of the missing plane - after it made its turn to the left. Also - there was some talk about a sighting in the Maldives - would that be on the same flight path?

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CNN Has Reported That Some Fishermen Saw A Plane Flying Low.... (Original Post) global1 Mar 2014 OP
And this SarasotaDem Mar 2014 #1
Is this the same one as Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #6
the maldives tale is supposedly not true Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #2
and you believe that Iwasthere Mar 2014 #3
Yesterday I believed they had seen the plane, but somebody more geographically informed than I Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #4
follow up reports confirm the front windows were fully open snooper2 Mar 2014 #5
Are they looking for the plane around the Maldives? treestar Mar 2014 #7
looking on maps while reading the description Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #8
 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
2. the maldives tale is supposedly not true
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 10:23 AM
Mar 2014
The military in the Maldives, a remote Indian Ocean island nation, confirmed to Malaysia that reports of a sighting of the plane by villagers there were "not true," the Malaysian defense minister said.
 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
4. Yesterday I believed they had seen the plane, but somebody more geographically informed than I
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:11 AM
Mar 2014

clarified why this was unlikely.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4685937

Then today I saw the bit I posted above.

So, for the moment I accept/believe that, yes.

How bout you? I spose you were there?

treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. Are they looking for the plane around the Maldives?
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:39 AM
Mar 2014

They look to me to be so remotely out in the ocean that where could the plane have landed?

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
8. looking on maps while reading the description
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:48 AM
Mar 2014

It looks as if the plane was turning northeast, not west,
and flying very low or descending rapidly with landing
lights on. "disappeared behind coconut trees"

Curious and curiouser

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