Another Plane missing

[NoahFence]

Looks like plane crash threads are going to be as popular as gun threads...

ugh

London (CNN) -- An Air Algerie flight with 116 people on board has dropped off radar, prompting a search for the missing plane, the airline's operator said Thursday.

Flight 5017 lost radar contact 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, early Thursday. It was supposed to arrive at Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later.

A day after the crash in Taiwan.

 

[lionking]

Old plane in Africa. Not a huge surprise.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Coincidentally, another one ending in '17', too.

 

[casebro]

So is there a terrorist group with a name like Friday the 17th? The Oolangapoa 17?

 

[Monketi Ghost]

It's aliens from Omicron Persei 17.

 

[anglolawyer]

Just waiting for someone to show up in the outraged killjoy role while we all laugh at the dead people …

 

[NoahFence]

So is there a terrorist group with a name like Friday the 17th? The Oolangapoa 17?

People died. You think this is funny?

 

[Monketi Ghost]

People died. You think this is funny?

We don't know yet!

 

[Olowkow]

I read somewhere that there was extremely severe weather at the point where they lost contact.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-algeria-flight-idUSKBN0FT0YK20140724

"I can confirm that it has crashed," the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident.

ETA: The weather reference.
http://www.businessinsider.com/air-algerie-loses-contact-with-plane-after-takeoff-2014-7

 

[Ziggurat]

Looks like plane crash threads are going to be as popular as gun threads...

No civilian needs to own a plane.

More people are killed in swimming pools than on planes.

If I see someone with a concealed plane, I'll shoot them.

 

[NoahFence]

You mean if you see someone with a plane on a gun you'll fly them?

 

[Monketi Ghost]

Refreshing to see a thread in this sub forum about an incident full of unknowns that didn't fill up immediately with (non humorous)speculation.

 

[jhunter1163]

So is there a terrorist group with a name like Friday the 17th? The Oolangapoa 17?

Well, there were these guys...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Organization_17_November

 

[Octavo]

If I see a swimming pool carrying a plane on a gun, I know I've taken too much acid.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Copy cat crash theory in 5, 4, 3, ...

 

[Monketi Ghost]

Now it's confirmed crashed in Mali.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/24/algerian-plane-disappears/13084329/

 

[KDLarsen]

Old plane in Africa. Not a huge surprise.

A reliable European ACMI outfit supplied the aircraft and crew, and performed maintenance.

 

[casebro]

People die. Sometimes in plane crashes, some in acts of war. That is not news worhty of posting on a world wide forum.

"We don't know what happened" is news. Terrorism is news. "Weather downs plane. Film at 11" is not.

/thread

 

[Patricio Elicer]

Fidel Castro's niece purportedly onboard

Mariela Castro, she is daughter of Cuban dictator Raúl Castro.

 

[dudalb]

Fidel Castro's niece purportedly onboard

Mariela Castro, she is daughter of Cuban dictator Raúl Castro.

The Conspiracy Kooks will go crazy over this....