Air Malaysia missing.

Hello All,

As devastating as the loss of the Malaysian airliner is the company's handling of the media has a lot in common with the Russian Government's handling of the equally as devastating sinking of the submarine the Kursk.

When I was doing my journalism degree we had to do a case study of "how not to handle the media" from a company's perspective. I scoured international articles daily for articles written in English. These were all pooled together and then analysed. Including where a distraught mother at a public forum was injected in the neck with a tranquilliser and carted off by the military. Some of the images of grieving Chinese parents who are distraught and then being bundled off out of the camera frame are hauntingly familiar to that of the Kursk incident. The saddest thing is at least the relatives of the Kursk victims got to know of their loved one's fate - we may never know what really happened with the Malaysian airlines plane.

In the progression of 14 years since the Kursk sank one would think that companies and government might have learnt better how to handle grieving relatives.

My greatest sympathy towards those who have lost loved ones on the flight.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Well said, Lionel^^^^^^^^.

Yeah, there's a good chance the plane will never be found. Its a big and very deep ocean. There's no proof the objects seen in the water have anything to do with the plane and, even if they do, they could be a long way from where it went down, so actually finding the fuselage with the flight recorder is a very difficult task, especially after the battery goes flat and it stops 'pinging'.

Flight MH370: Closure may never occur

The Malaysians tried to keep the information flow going, but how do you do that when you don't know much? They would have been better not to have had scheduled media conferences with nothing to announce, but to have only spoken up when there was actual news.

Still, hindsight is a wonderful thing. Terrible thing for the relatives and friends though, really awful.

Lionel well said but I think its a not a unreasonable thing to say about Russia is that the state is far more important than the individual people, this from all my Russian extended family its been like that since the Czars time and will be for quite some time yet....so nothing will be learned for a while

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Originally Posted by sashadidi

Lionel well said but I think its a not a unreasonable thing to say about Russia is that the state is far more important than the individual people, this from all my Russian extended family its been like that since the Czars time and will be for quite some time yet....so nothing will be learned for a while

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Hello Sashadidi,

Yes and a certain bloke was on holiday and stayed on holiday when the Kursk was first lost. The same fellow still has his hands at the controls of the country too.

I think some world leaders have picked up that when a catastrophe happens to your citizens staying on holiday is a bit frowned upon both at home and internationally. :eek:

The other "how not to" was to stay in Air Force One and looking down on your flooded citizens in New Orleans after a hurricane and not have any direct contact with those affected. It even gets up the Mayor's Ray Nagin's nose and they say unkind things about you. Even if your daddy was a President too! http://www.hurricanekatrina.com/ray-nagin-outraged.html & http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02...ipt/index.html

Kind Regards
Lionel

I was having a talk to a maintenance engineer tonight and he was telling me all the communications, transponder and even the black box can be switched off via circuit breakers so they can be isolated if issues arise. If the pilot went this far he probably turned that off too. Even if they do find it, it may tell them nothing.

Now THAT is very worrying :(

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yeah, there's a good chance the plane will never be found. Its a big and very deep ocean. There's no proof the objects seen in the water have anything to do with the plane and, even if they do, they could be a long way from where it went down, so actually finding the fuselage with the flight recorder is a very difficult task, especially after the battery goes flat and it stops 'pinging'.

Flight MH370: Closure may never occur

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Someone was interviewed the other day and asked if looking for MH-370 was like looking for a needle in a haystack, the reply went along these lines.

'It's going to be very much like looking for a needle in a haystack, but first we have to find the haystack'.


Martyn

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Originally Posted by Landover

I was having a talk to a maintenance engineer tonight and he was telling me all the communications, transponder and even the black box can be switched off via circuit breakers so they can be isolated if issues arise. If the pilot went this far he probably turned that off too. Even if they do find it, it may tell them nothing.

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It is starting to look like MH370 will never be found, especially if that black box isn't sending out it's location pings.

Did I hear it right, that the Malaysians have already started to reuse the MH370 flight sign??? :(

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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

It is starting to look like MH370 will never be found, especially if that black box isn't sending out it's location pings.

Did I hear it right, that the Malaysians have already started to reuse the MH370 flight sign??? :(

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Doubt it Arthur.

They announced a couple of weeks ago that they had "retired" the MH370 flight designation from their index and would not use it again ever, as a mark of respect to those who had been lost.