Ow fan wan

Perhaps she got lost after she found the mushrooms

Strange comment, even in jest, what if it was your mother or grandmother, great outcome and a big thanks to all that searched for her.

Lighten up crank

And their drinks never spilled?......That's talent!

? I noticed that!

Looks like Soi 4 Phratumnak? Anyone know?

Until the ICE epidemic is brought under control these muggings will be on the up. Pattaya now full of Thai junkies who will do anything to get their next fix.

Debris and bodies found only 6 miles from where ATC last made contact. Would have thought the search would have concentrated in this area from day 1, no chance of any survivors now.

Would like to hope it won't be long before the black boxes are recovered as area reportedly shallow enough for divers.

Have to question the tracking and position systems along with the beacons on all planes, its basically saying its inept in some regions widely used as a regular commercial flight

path.

If it had ditched after 2 days youd expect to be rescued on this regular flight path no ?

Seems whatever transpires some serious questions have to be asked re tracking by radar when there's the satellite tracking option almost totally already in place.

It took 4 days to find first debris on the surface after AF crash and they knew the exact point of impact on that one, then a further 2 years to find the remains of the plane on the sea bed.

Agreed its high time data streaming technology was mandatory for the airlines to have installed, black box recorders are well past their sell by date, technology is readily available, it's purely down to cost which is shocking bearing in mind the enormous cost to carry out the search and rescue ops.

Clearly Pilot training in Asia needs looking at too to prevent it happening in first place, rather than focusing purely on finding the debris field and bodies easier.

Plenty of Asian pilots are trained around the world by the best schools.

It can't be called an Asian pilot training issue. Especially this pilot had over 20 thousand hours inc F16's.

I would think if he couldn't fix the issue, not many pilots could.

Apologies, meant training levels provided by Asian airlines appears to need looking at.

These planes are made to withstand the weather conditions faced over the equator, and historically it's very rare weather conditions alone will bring a plane down so don't think we can rule out if, how this particular pilot reacted when faced with the storm contributed to the crash or not.

Why he requsted to lift to 38000 ft when the radar showed the storm cloud to be higher than 50000 ft meaning he would not clear it also seems strange. This lift would have reduced air speed and could contribute to stalling.

All speculation of course until evidence is found!

Smoke spotted on an island within the search zone is latest rumour on CNN

Have to question the tracking and position systems along with the beacons on all planes, its basically saying its inept in some regions widely used as a regular commercial flight

path.

If it had ditched after 2 days youd expect to be rescued on this regular flight path no ?

Seems whatever transpires some serious questions have to be asked re tracking by radar when there's the satellite tracking option almost totally already in place.

It took 4 days to find first debris on the surface after AF crash and they knew the exact point of impact on that one, then a further 2 years to find the remains of the plane on the sea bed.

Agreed its high time data streaming technology was mandatory for the airlines to have installed, black box recorders are well past their sell by date, technology is readily available, it's purely down to cost which is shocking bearing in mind the enormous cost to carry out the search and rescue ops.

Clearly Pilot training in Asia needs looking at too to prevent it happening in first place, rather than focusing purely on finding the debris field and bodies easier.

The search and rescue teams have only had 2 days of daylight, the original search area was 240 nm square

Roughly larger than the size of Greece.( this has now been increased)

Pair this with the storms in the area,low visibility and the currents that will inevitably carry the debris then this doesn't seem such a simple task.

It is only the searches by air that stop in the hours of darkness, all the ships continue through the night.

It is too dangerous for the planes flying at low altitude, due to the adverse weather conditions that have probably been a major contributor to downing the flight in the first place.

Does anyone know when sophon goes digital ? Looking to buy second tv and salesman in Num Chai is telling me 15th of January 2014 but will continue to broadcast analog for a further 3 years. As per, sales guy in Big C gave me totally contradicting info that it will switch over completely in May/June 2014 with no analog at all! Can't find anything on net to support either claim only Wikipedia saying Thailand goes digital in 2015 !

Want to make allowances now if set top box is going to be required for first TV if it does happen any time this century baring in mind 'Thai time' !!!

Mai kao jai !!!!